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Title: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2012, 20:01:06 We're on our holidays, but having trouble remembering where we took these snaps. Can you help us? Thanks
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw00.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw01.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw02.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw03.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw04.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw05.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw06.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw07.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/diw08.jpg) (We do notice that the trains around here are a different colour :D ) Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: JayMac on May 23, 2012, 20:10:39 8. Dovey Junction
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: Devon Big Bird on May 23, 2012, 20:16:23 Any rules re number of guesses? :D
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2012, 20:21:37 8. Dovey Junction Yes - and if anyone needed it, that will more or less set the area.. Any rules re number of guesses? :D Nope - I haven't set any. As many or as few as you like! Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: JayMac on May 23, 2012, 20:26:23 Well, as you say that does indeed rather set the area. West/North Wales
Have you had any trips on some of the narrow gauge stuff in that neck of the woods? I'll hazard a guess that 4. is Barmouth Bridge. More specifically the point at where part of it used to swing. Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: Devon Big Bird on May 23, 2012, 20:28:05 sets himself up for a fall
2. Aberystwyth 3. Ditto vernacular railway? 4. as 3? 5. Borth? 7. Porthmadog? 9. Conwy / Stevenson's Bridge? Any luck on these? ??? Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: Devon Big Bird on May 23, 2012, 20:29:24 No, 5 isn't Borth (I did the honourable thing of posting before checking Google Maps!) :D
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: JayMac on May 23, 2012, 20:34:11 vernacular railway? Wos one of them then? Surely funicular is the correct vernacular? :P ;D Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: Devon Big Bird on May 23, 2012, 20:37:06 Ha Ha, been a long day and couldn't be arsenaled to check! Yes, in Wales, it's the vernacular. ;D
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2012, 20:39:16 2. Correct - Aberystwyth (Devon Big Bird)
4. Correct - Barmouth Bridge (BigNoseMac) 8. Correct - Dovey Junction (BigNoseMac) Other guesses are incorrect - sorry! Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: Worcester_Passenger on May 23, 2012, 20:40:22 5 Morfa Mawddach
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: anthony215 on May 23, 2012, 21:09:21 Photo 1 looks like the flooring on a refurbished ATW class 158
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 23, 2012, 21:27:29 1. Correct - flooring on an ATW class 158 (anthony215) (funny, I thought it was a picture of two dogs!)
5. Correct - Morfa Mawddach (Worcester_Passenger) 3, 6, 7 and 9 to go. Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: SandTEngineer on May 24, 2012, 20:06:38 7 Corris Steam Railway at .....er Corris ;D
9 Viaduct over the A470 between Pont-y-Pant and Betws-y-Coed Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 24, 2012, 20:58:37 Correct on 7 - The Corris at Corris (SandTEngineer)
Incorrect on 9, though. Clue - we've not been north of Barmouth, nor down to South Wales. Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: SandTEngineer on May 24, 2012, 21:48:31 6 LLyngwril station (between Tywyn and Barmouth)
9 Knucklas Viaduct (Central Wales Line)...Second attempt at Welsh viaducts :P Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 24, 2012, 22:24:14 6 LLyngwril station (between Tywyn and Barmouth) 9 Knucklas Viaduct (Central Wales Line)...Second attempt at mid-Wales viaducts :P Both correct - Llwyngwril and Knucklas. Slightly suprisingly, it's number 3 that's left as the last to be guessed (I was thinking Llwyngwril would be really tough!) Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: SandTEngineer on May 24, 2012, 22:39:37 3 Centre for Alternative Technology - Machynlleth (http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/mac.htm)
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 25, 2012, 03:33:13 3 Centre for Alternative Technology - Machynlleth (http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/rail/mac.htm) Spot on there. There's real rail variety in midWales - that probably doesn't come as a huge surprise to many members! Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 25, 2012, 21:41:36 1. Correct - flooring on an ATW class 158 (anthony215) (funny, I thought it was a picture of two dogs!) Gypsy and Billy: two quite remarkable dogs. I've had the pleasure of meeting both of them. See http://www.wellho.net/mouth/3625_An-update-on-Billy-the-Greyhound-and-Gypsy-the-Lurcher.html ;) Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 26, 2012, 15:22:44 Thanks, Chris .... we're a bit biased about them ;)
Back very late yesterday - 7 hour delay due to equipment failure - but it gave us a chance to have another day on the Welsh coast, which allowed to take enough extra pictures to make a second quiz section: (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz1.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz2.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz3.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz4.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz5.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz6.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz7.jpg) I don't think there are any repeated venues ... and especially for Anthony215 and the Welsh contingent: (http://www.wellho.net/pix/ldz0.jpg) Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: bobm on May 26, 2012, 16:34:49 Number 2 "Any unattended luggage may be damaged or destroyed by the security services" ;D ;D
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 27, 2012, 18:15:54 Number 2 "Any unattended luggage may be damaged or destroyed by the security services" ;D ;D Yeah - I think that looks worse than it actually was - crowds of sunseeking youths on holiday just detraining from the two-hourly service from the Midlands. I suspect the owner was just out of shot. Very little reaction to these pictures - perhaps I should have started a separate thread. I'll label 'em all up tomorrow if no-one comes back further. Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: EBrown on May 27, 2012, 18:26:44 Is 7 a narrow gauge steam loco on Talyllyn Railway?
Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 27, 2012, 21:39:31 Is 7 a narrow gauge steam loco on Talyllyn Railway? Ah ... not quite ... not on the Talyllyn Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: EBrown on May 28, 2012, 02:36:16 Is 7 a narrow gauge steam loco on Talyllyn Railway? Ah ... not quite ... not on the Talyllyn Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 28, 2012, 10:08:06 Is 7 a narrow gauge steam loco on Talyllyn Railway? Ah ... not quite ... not on the Talyllyn Correct, Maespoeth on the Corris - but the rear locomotive is "Sir Haydn" - a Talyllyn locomotive making a guest appearance! Title: Re: Away on holiday - can you help work out where we have been? Post by: grahame on May 28, 2012, 15:03:19 And here's the full list.
1. Penhelig 2. Aberdovey 3. Machynlleth 4. Dolgoch (Talyllyn) 5. Towyn Wharf (in museum - Guiness Brewery Engine from above) 6. Borth 7. Maespoeth 8. near site of Abertafol station (class 158 / Arriva / unrefurbished) Back to FGW land next time, I think! This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |