Great Western Coffee Shop

Originally posted in "Frequent Posters" and now made publicly visible - I had added links to the original image so you can read more about them

One each to start with please.

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Research via the following would probably lead you to some locations quite quickly.  Please resist the temptation if you can for the first 24 hours to make it more fun for others.    I've posted initially in "Frequent Posters" as I know you're a responsible lot who will follow that request  ;D ;D - I will be moving the thread to "the lighter side" once all the locations have been identified so that guests and very new members can enjoy the pictures too.

These images are copyright Malc McDonald, Roger Kidd, David Gruar, John Thorn and Robin Webster and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence - see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ ; I will post specific links to individual originals in context (recommended rather than required in the license) once the quiz has been completed.

Specific links:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2823990
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/32084
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3021258
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/624171
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/349979

 

4 Black and White is Midford S&D with the famous backing signal for trains stalled on the way up to tunnel to back onto the double line section over the viaduct.

2 - Approaching Coombe Junction from the Looe direction. Up Home Signal No.24 on the left with Coombe Junction signalbox in the distance.

1.  Bridge over the River Thames, (Cookham/ Bourne End).

Do you mean 2?

Whoops yes, can't count.  Original post amended. :-[

2, yes, Coombe
4, yes, Midford

No 1 is not on the Maidehhead - Marlow line  :-X

The only one I knew for definite was 4, Midford on the S&DJR. Already answered by eightf48544.

Having read widely on the 'Somerset & Dorset' it was an image I immediately recognised.

Interesting signal arm in that picture.....

Its called a 'Bow-Tie' signal.......see Items 3.16, 3.17 and 3.18 here: http://www.railsigns.co.uk/sect3page1/sect3page1.html

Would 1 be  the bridge over the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal  Bridge, Wolverhampton (Wolverhampton to Stourbridge Junction)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StaffsWorcs_Meccano_Bridge.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StaffsWorcs_Meccano_Bridge.jpg)

At first glance I also wondered if that was the bridge at Bourne end.. But on closer inspection I realised that I wouldn't have been able to walk over the one in the picture (big fear of heights on my part) but I have walked over the Bridge at Bourne end many times :-)

It would indeed ... just the third and fifth images to go. Just one of the remaining images is in FGW land.

I'll have to take the Marlow train sometime and see the bridge that's obviously very close in looks to the Wolverhampton one.

Probably not that close really .. But I had wondered till I saw that I couldn't walk across it.. Then someone else thought that same on here..I may have to go and have a look and see how different it is really :-)

Not high enough, river (or canal) is not wide enough, the photo is a skew bridge Bourne End is not at such a skew it also has piers in the middle of the river

Alec Guinness was in that one wasn't he?  :P ;) ;D

And its made of bamboo  :o  ;D

Just two to go - floor open again for those members who guessed (1), (2) and (4) ...

Number 5 is bugging me. I have a feeling its one of two places in Somerset.

Is it perhaps a bridge for a Quarry line? ;)

Wrong county ... and there are still some passenger trains running over it (nothing as regular as clockface, though!).  But that picture's going to be the tricky one as it has no track / trackside features shown.

Only other place I can think of that it *could* be is just after Melksham near Corsham Road ;)

Ok yes I had to look on Google Maps, but only to get the road name ;)

Amazingly (for me), it's not on the TransWilts  ;D

Re 5 somewhere on the Cotswold line going by the stone barn?

Sorry - cold (and getting colder)

Ok... Cornish Branch Line??

No.1 also looks very much like a bridge over the Kennet & Avon on the B&H between Thatcham and Newbury.

But I guess it isn't  :(

There are, it seems, a number of skew bridges like this one ... which was identified on the last page as being on the former GWR route from Stourbridge to Wolverhampton.  And, yes, Cornwall's more like it for the final picture.

The other remaining image is out of area, although in a part of the country I've been to quite often.  This is a historic picture now, said to date from 2005 - and since then it's changed beyond recognition with lots of concrete all over the place.

I'm pretty sure 3 is on the Cambridge - St Ives line, now the guided busway.  Histon?

Yes, Richard, it is ... just leaves that bridge which we know's in Cornwall - I expect you might recognise it ?  ;D

number 5 is near roche, carries the newquay branch.
The building on the left has been extensively renovated and looks much better externally now.

It is indeed .. and that completes the quiz.    I'll go back, add links to the originals on the intro thread, and move this into public view