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Can you place any of these (if yes, just one each please!) ... all my picture, some quite old

Edit - 3rd April.  Due to a hole in my backup system ... the links to these pictures have gone.  Sorry about that ... it would take an awful long time to find them again ...

1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
(http://www.wellho.net/ql/p5.jpg)

6.
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7.
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8.
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No 8. - The A420 between South Marston and Bourton near Swindon?

1. Gloucester Road LC. Avonmouth

I know a few of those... But I'll go for the one I am unsure on which is:

4) Clifton Down?

Whilst Clifton Down has seen ATW liveried Class 150s, I don't think it's ever had the bilingual 'Ffordd allan/Way out' signs.  ;)

Haha... Completely missed that. In that case, guess retracted. You can see how I came to that conclusion though had it not have been for that sign? The picture is very similar to the setup on the Severn Beach bound platform at Clifton Down ;)

In which case, shall I take another punt? as it's going to be wrong ;)

3 is presumably Dilton Marsh

Numbers 1 and 8 - correct.
Number 4 - Mae hynny'n anghywir . Brithyll - gymryd arall dyfalu.

And, yes, No. 3 is Dilton Marsh

Number 6 is Melksham. The train being the 19:35 from Westbury to Swindon.

Location correct, service incorrect.

Regrettably, the 19:35 from Westbury isn't usually a busy train.   The opposite commuter working - the 06:38 from Melksham - gets there at 06:55 in the morning, and even the keen workforce on the West Wilts Trading Estate finds that's a bit too long a day for the  :-\

Hi,

Is No 4 Cathys with Cardiff Student Union in background

Basset

Yes, it *is* Cathays.

The train at Melksham, by the way, is the 18:19 ex Swindon one dark December night, when it had become know ahead of time that Santa would be on the train  ;) ... it does look rather like the Weymouth return (anthony215) in the summer of 2011, except that there was always some light when that service got back.

Its actually called Acorn Bridge and the right hand arch in the picture was originally built for the Wilts and Berks Canal

Interesting, the Canal is another interest of mine, especially as it used to flow past my back gate - not in my lifetime though, obviously!  ;D

Shot in the dark number 7: Westbury Platforms 2 & 3 Countrybound End

Sorry - no ...

2, 5 and 7 remain unanswered ... and none of these three is all that near to home.   Remember that at times I get around a bit  ;D - but they are all UK.

Hmm.  ::)

2. has a vaguely Welsh branch line atmosphere about it: may I be permitted to hazard a guess at 'somewhere on either the Forest of Dean Railway or the Talyllyn Railway', as a rather desperate couple of stabs in the dark?  :-[

I thing someone may be able to gauge which of those two is the correct one  ;D ... Noting your .sig, CfN, I was standing on one at the time ... but it was gated with those old fashioned swing things with a chappy (or chapess) swinging it.

I can gauge which is the correct one grahame. Am I allowed another go? Mind you, by saying I know which of CfN's two possibles is correct might be enough of a clue for Chris. I can however give the precise location.  ;)

Open house .... been running for 24 hours.    I expect no. 3 to be the last to go!

7. Swindon?

2. To add to CfN's guess of Dean Forest Railway, I concur. It's the level crossing on on the B4234 at Whitecroft, adjacent to the recently re-opened Whitecroft Station.


No. 3 has already been answered.  ???

2 is indeed Whitecroft
3 has already been answered I expect 5 to be the last to go
But 7 isn't Swindon either

5.
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7.
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I'm surprised these two haven't gone (or rather - I'm surprised that the second one hasn't gone).  It has a handful of direct services each day starting from Bristol Temple Meads and really isn't far from home.

Number 5 is going to be harder, I know - that's a long way from home, and most of our members who travelled in their youth won't have had the opportunity to go there.

P.S.  ... A p.m. I got very early on identified one of these ... go on - tell 'em Bob  ;)

Looming out of the fog in Number 7 is.....  Andover!

I have no information on number 5!   ;D

#5 isn't somewhere daft like Corby is it?

I don't think I would go for "daft", but you've read the clues well so there are similarities between Corby and the actual location.

A very wild punt on 5. Kirby South Junction on the Robin Hood line where it becomes double track after passing through Annersley (Midland) tunnel?

If it is then the history of the railways in this area is too complex to post. Suffice to say this Kirby South Junction is roughly where the GC junction of the same name was situated but is at leat 30' higher as the GC was in a deep cutting. We are basically back to just the Midland lines with no trace of the GC at all.

I'm afraid it isn't ... but it's so refreshing to see reminders of re-openings (most of which have been a huge success) coming up in the suggestions.

Pedant's corner.  I think it's Annesley.

It's a very long way from Annesley ... sorry ... unless you're looking at dictionary order.

Bearing in mind Graham's trip to Scotland last year could it possibly be on the re-opened Stirling - Alloa line? Perhaps just outside Stirling as there seems to be a river in the background.

It certainly looks like new track so could well be Alloa then there's the dictionary clue, but the Forth is still much wider than the river in the picture

Ebbw Vale Parkway for Number 5? ;)

What dictionary clue?  I got the Corby bit as indicating we are talking a 'Glen' here (???).

I thought of one of the recently preserved Scottish lines rather than a re-opened one.  So I'll see if that triggers any thoughts, er, none here as you gather.

Yes, it's Alloa.   The big area isn't a river - rather a piece of flooded or very wet grassland; that whole area is the site that was the old Alloa station, and the bridge was over the station in days gone by.  In the foreground is the pointwork where the line from Stirling, coming in from the left branches to the new station (front) and the line to shortseagull power station in the back.

Edit to add link:
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/3331_Comparing-Alloa-and-Melksham-stations-and-services.html?pwidth=wide

I took it as refering to being near dictionary wise to your guess of Annersley.

That's how I meant it - Annersley is only 0.3% further down the alphabet that Alloa.

All too clever for me, but congrats on Alloa, whoever got it.  At least I got the right country!

Where is this Annersley then?  I thought I did a pedant's corner on that one.   More confused than ever. ???

It was on the Midland, GN and  GC, South of the hills at the top of Leen vlley North of Nottingham.

The GC's London Extension  proper started there having shared a tunnel through the hills with GN the Midalnd having it's own tunnel. It was also the home to Annersley yard and shed from which the famous Windcutters (or out and homes) trundled coal down to Woodford Halse and empties back in one shift.

The Midland line has now reopened as the Robin hood line from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop.

Annesley yard is covered in some flattened slag heaps.

As I say the railway geography of the Leen Valley and the Nottinghamshire coalfield is very complicated. They were still building colliery branches in the 60s. 

I suddenly seem to be of the opinion that grahame told me it was Alloa some time ago...

...d'oh.

Yes I know where Annesley is but where is Annersley - am I getting through now?? ;D ;D ( I did say it was pedantry).