Great Western Coffee Shop

Usual rules apply, one guess in 24 hours. If notified of an incorrect guess you may have another go :)

Some hard ones and easy ones. The majority are in FGW Land or close by, but there are one or two odd balls there too :)

And for those of you with "insider intel" (You know who you are...........) Please give others a chance first ;) ;D

Here goes!

1 ) Not Colchester
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2 ) Class of Unit and Bonus point for TOC Name - Gatwick Express/Class 442 - readytostart
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3 )
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4 ) Route for the selection of tickets - Bonus point for the missing option :) - Bristol - Bath Spa / Bath Spa - Bristol - Mookiemoo & Brucey
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5 ) Clapham Yard - Ollie
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6 ) Platform 13 - Bristol Temple Meads - Mookiemoo
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7 ) ParcelForce Depot - Bristol Temple Meads - chris from nailsea
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8 )
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9 ) Trowbridge - bignosemac
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10 ) Westbury - ellendune
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11 ) Nearest Station to this location. Bonus points for the Junction Name - Worting Junction (Junction West of Basingstoke for Winchester/Southampton and Salisbury) - Devon Big Bird - relex109 honorary mention ;) (Now who's evil!)
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12 ) Basingstoke - paul7755
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13 ) Class of Unit and bonus point for TOC Name
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14 )
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15 ) Station Name - Bonus Points for the period I travelled and the error in the Photo
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16 )
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17 )
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18 ) Salisbury - relex109
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19 ) Bath Spa - grahame
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20 ) Westbury - ReWind
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21 ) Nearest FirstGroup Station - Disclaimer - I had nothing to do with this!! ;D
Bath Bus Station - Dorchester Street - chris from nailsea
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7. The eyesore that is the old Royal Mail sorting office at Bristol Temple Meads.  ::)

I'll have 'a wild stab in the dark' guess at a location for number 21, too - in 23 hours time!  ;)

5 is Clapham Yard I believe - although you would have been standing on a platform at Clapham Junction - SWT side :)

7 Correct CfN - ParcelForce Depot at Bristol Temple Meads :)

5 Correct Ollie - Clapham Yard - Although you're wrong about where I took the picture. I wasn't on the platform, I was in a the DMCL of a Class 159 IIRC.

19. - Bath Spa

Ah, close enough :P

19 Correct grahame - Bath Spa.

@ollie yes... True you can have an extra point for effort as you knew that was the SWT side ;-)

2 is a HST (could be a 235 but I think its a HST) and I think its East Anglian

9 ) Trowbridge.

6) - Reading

  - oh Lord  ;D ;D ;D

I'm sorry Mookiemoo... But it's not a HST or a 235 (perhaps you meant 253?? but it's not one of those either) nor is it East Anglian.


I'm impressed good sir! 9 is indeed Trowbridge! I thought that one would lul people into a false sense of security and think it was single track! :)


Fraid not... Though a good will bonus point for spotting the typo! Consider it amended effective immediately! Done!

So to sum up: bobm and Mookiemoo - feel free to have another go! bignosemac 23 hours and 12 minutes delay for you ;) sorry, you are not covered under the delay repay scheme ;) ;D :P

10 Westbury

No 1 Colchester?

I thought 10 was Westbury too, but beaten to it  :)

So, 11 - Worting Junction?

12. Basingstoke (down side).

is 18 salisbury?

Oh, it's near enough!  ::)

I reckon I have a picture of the lower half of thetrout's traffic light:

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21.  It's on Dorchester Street, outside Debenhams, between the bus station and Bath Spa railway station.  ;D

4. Weekly season ticket/travelcard?

already answered but going to jump in because the main question wasnt answered and i am evil :-)   worting junction closest station basingstoke

Oi! You can take the credit if it's wrong!

Yes the main question was the nearest station, but the name of the juction was the bonus.

Is 6 platform 13 at Bristol?

That's the flyingscotsmans guess so it doesn't count as two from me in 24. Just can't be bothered signing out and in again.

Hehe I'm almost always wrong

10 ) Westbury - Correct - ellendune

1 ) Sorry Electric Train - Not Colchester - Have another go!

11 ) Worting Junction - Near Basingstoke (Junction for Salisbury and Southampton Lines) - Devon Big Bird

12 ) Basingstoke - Correct - paul7755

18 ) Salisbury - Correct - Relex109

6 ) Platform 13 - Bristol Temple Meads -Correct Mookiemoo

21 ) Was a Trick Question... It is indeed Bath, But not Dorchester Street :( That one is St James Parade at the Pedestrian Crossing outside Halifax Bank. So the nearest First Group Station would have been Bath Bus Station. That was a little sneaky wasn't it?!!

What about my guess at number 4. Missing weekly season/travelcard.

Plat 13 wasn't my guess. Credit should go to flyingscotsmans

Sorry Mookiemoo... I did the answers there on my iPhone and must have missed yours :( :-X so my apologies there!

You're right about the Weekly Season being Missing from there. So I'll award points for that answer, but it wasn't the answer I was looking for. But my picture does leave a couple of other tickets off the screen, so I'll list that as a duff photo. The a answer I was after was the lack of a First Off-Peak Day Return. There is a First Off Peak Return and a First Anytime Day Return but not a First Off-Peak Day Return... Weird eh??

2 Class 442, Southern / Gatwick Express (I was going to suggest it being something from Greater Anglia due to the red logo on the poster but spotted the BR era chevrons in the reflection in the window, as GA's Mk3's have ex Virgin moquette that ruled it out!)

Yes: it was. :-X

I was in Bath again this morning, and you will all no doubt be delighted to learn that the rogue traffic cone has been removed from that traffic light.  ::)

I know quite a few of the places, so I'll take a stab at the TVM screen.

Those fares seem to resemble BRI to BTH, or BTH or BRI.  As the machine is Scheidt & Bachmann, I'm guessing it is at Bath Spa.  Missing option is probably the First Anytime Return, which IIRC is about ^20.

Yes you're correct Brucey - BRI - BTH Tickets.

Also CfN... I'm afraid that rogue traffic cone has found it's way back up there. I'm due to walk past there shortly so will take a pic if I remember... Unless we're thinking of 2 completely different places!

I'll leave the quiz open for another 48 hours before revealing all the unanswered answers and therefore claiming all the cake ;)

Is 20) Westbury

Well, to be fair, I was only passing through, on the road between Bath Spa railway station and Bath bus station on 22 April, but I didn't see any traffic cones on any of the traffic lights, on a very quick inspection.  :P

However, there are a lot of students in Bath ...  ::)

It is indeed ;)

Oh back in the days when I may have been one of them..................... Perhaps the less said about that the better maybe ;-)

Forgot to say... Some excellent spots there :) A few of those I didn't think people would get so easily. I guess as grahame once said, we're a knowledgeable bunch :)

Hear are some clues...!

Suprised also that paul7755 hasn't got Number 1 ;) and that relex109 hasn't got the coffee one... (13 - on second thoughts the number 13 may have put him off ;) )

You can get to all the stations in pictures 1, 8, 16 and 17 on the same train :)

14 has toilets that are free of charge to use... the almost immediately adjacent station will relieve you of 30p (no pun intended)

15 is not served by any National Rail service, despite what the sign would have you believe!

3 serves trains to Barcelona and Madrid. But you could also go to France from their too, although it is quicker to change trains at Barcelona ;-)

I don't quite see the correlation between students and traffic cones...  ;D

Not sure of the station, but I believe a station on the Central Line is used for replacement bus services to/from as it would have been, National Express East Anglia, now Greater Anglia services.

Ah that makes me think it could be Newbury Park Underground then :)
Bus to Ingatestone?

Newbury Park would be the place I was thinking of, just couldn't remember the name of the station it was.

I'd concur with Newbury Park. That was certainly where I was dumped transported to by coach after a journey from Norwich to Ingatestone following my holiday in Norfolk last year.

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Stratford - somewhere on the Westfield development side? 

Paul

Paul has beaten me to it, I was going for Stratford for 1.

Is number 8 Shenfield? A Class 315 would mean it is between London and Shenfield, and 5 platforms rules out most stations.