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Title: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 03, 2013, 20:04:07 One each for the first 24 hours on this quiz, please ... all but 1 usually places served by First Great Western
1. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px0.jpg) 2. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px1.jpg) 3. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px2.jpg) 4. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px3.jpg) 5. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px4.jpg) 6. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px5.jpg) 7. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px6.jpg) 8. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/px7.jpg) 9. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/pxf.jpg) 10. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/pxh.jpg) 11. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/pxi.jpg) Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: JayMac on April 03, 2013, 20:19:14 3. Minehead
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: bobm on April 03, 2013, 20:33:40 8. Chippenham
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 03, 2013, 20:45:13 Yes, Minehead and Chippenham ...
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: paul7575 on April 03, 2013, 20:55:37 7. Weymouth.
Reasoning: SWT style platform number - and multiple FGW 153s etc. Paul Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: DavidBrown on April 03, 2013, 20:57:29 4 - Torquay? Those decorative canopy pillars seen familiar.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 03, 2013, 21:07:32 2. Taunton. :-[
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 03, 2013, 21:14:25 2. is indeed Taunton, and 7. is Weymouth ... but 4, sorry, isn't Torquay. I think that one's possibly quite hard because of the Photoshop attack on the original picture!
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: JayMac on April 03, 2013, 21:24:27 2. Taunton. :-[ I was tempted to answer that one, but decided to leave it for you chris. :P ;) ;D Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Network SouthEast on April 03, 2013, 21:24:38 I'm going to take a punt and say that 6 is just to the east of Bedwyn.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 03, 2013, 21:39:05 2. Taunton. :-[ I was tempted to answer that one, but decided to leave it for you chris. :P ;) ;D Thanks, mate! I've actually got a Taunton one right, for once! :o ::) ;D Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 03, 2013, 21:40:58 I'm going to take a punt and say that 6 is just to the east of Bedwyn. It is indeed - "Little Bedwyn" I think - and the train stops in Great Bedwyn. Actually it's all relative; Great Bedwyn isn't all that large. Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Phil on April 03, 2013, 21:58:07 is 10. Bradford-on-Avon?
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: SandTEngineer on April 03, 2013, 22:07:57 4. Kemble. (Preserved ex-GWR water tower in the distance).
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 03, 2013, 22:13:10 Yes, 4 is Kemble and 10 is Bradford-on-Avon.
That leaves 1, 5, 9 and 11 to go. Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: eightf48544 on April 04, 2013, 11:33:06 I'll take a punt on 1 Wantage Road looking West with start of loops.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: devon_metro on April 04, 2013, 11:58:27 1 looks like Bathampton Jn to me!
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 04, 2013, 12:43:25 No. 1 is indeed Bathampton Junction (sorry - not Wantage!)
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: trainer on April 04, 2013, 17:14:05 OK - this is my last attempt - not Montparnasse, or Austerlitz so must be St Lazare (to my surprise if correct, but many years since I've been there)
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 04, 2013, 17:28:19 OK - this is my last attempt - not Montparnasse, or Austerlitz so must be St Lazare (to my surprise if correct, but many years since I've been there) Yep ... "g" in the away quiz is Paris St Lazare ... where I had just arrived from Cherbourg. Then on via Frankfurt to Nurnberg ... Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: trainer on April 04, 2013, 17:51:22 My only experience of that Paris station (going back to Caen) was unpleasant, having just been robbed on the metro of my passport, money and tickets. I spent some time in the Police office and strangely didn't stop to count the number of platforms! >:( :o ;D
(Good gracious - I've just realised I'm beginning to sound like the trout :D) Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: ellendune on April 04, 2013, 17:54:00 OK - this is my last attempt - not Montparnasse, or Austerlitz so must be St Lazare (to my surprise if correct, but many years since I've been there) Home seems to have moved away! Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: SandTEngineer on April 04, 2013, 18:52:24 Are we allowed our second attempts yet? I know the 24 hours isn't quite up yet ;D
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 04, 2013, 19:07:27 Are we allowed our second attempts yet? I know the 24 hours isn't quite up yet ;D Yes, please feel free to fill 'em all in now ... Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: SandTEngineer on April 04, 2013, 19:10:33 5: Frampton UWC in the Golden Valley.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 04, 2013, 19:44:25 5: Frampton UWC in the Golden Valley. Sorry, it isn't ... Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Phil on April 04, 2013, 21:08:43 5: Frampton UWC in the Golden Valley. Sorry, it isn't ... Looks more like Titfield Thunderbolt country to me. Freshford, maybe? Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 04, 2013, 21:21:43 5: Frampton UWC in the Golden Valley. Sorry, it isn't ... Looks more like Titfield Thunderbolt country to me. Freshford, maybe? Much, much closer, Phil! Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: SandTEngineer on April 04, 2013, 21:22:12 5: In that case it must be Ferry Lane (Claverton) UWC leading to Mill Cottage on the Limpey Stoke line ???
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 04, 2013, 21:27:37 Yes, it's Claverton ... which leaves no.s 9 and 11 to identify.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: trainer on April 04, 2013, 22:28:58 Dear all - please forgive my lack of attention in posting in the wrong place earlier. I was slow in picking up the new competition.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 04, 2013, 22:32:54 Dear all - please forgive my lack of attention in posting in the wrong place earlier. I was slow in picking up the new competition. Don't worry ... I probably made the titles far too similar. Now - I am surprised that no-one's got home pictures 9 or 11 ... 9. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/pxf.jpg) 11. (http://www.wellho.net/qz/pxi.jpg) Both of which were taken at stations with a plentiful supply of FGW trains amongst others! Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 06, 2013, 12:56:24 I'll finish these two off tomorrow morning ... very surprised than no-one has answered them ...
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: JayMac on April 06, 2013, 13:20:47 Some further clues grahame? I'll probably kick myself for #11, having looked and looked for a possible location.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 06, 2013, 13:27:02 Some further clues grahame? I'll probably kick myself for #11, having looked and looked for a possible location. Gosh ... both pictures that I took in March, one in a place that's very familiar indeed to both you and one of our admins. The other one's an interchange that I used when looking to travel without the need to take on a mortgage to pay the fare. Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 06, 2013, 16:27:30 Hmm. ::) Like bignosemac, I have an increasingly uneasy feeling that 11 is somewhere along the Severn Beach Line that I really ought to recognize ... :-[
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: JayMac on April 06, 2013, 16:33:52 I hope I'm not wrong, but I've dismissed the idea that #11 is on the Severn Beach Line.
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 06, 2013, 16:36:29 11. Bedminster. :P
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: SandTEngineer on April 06, 2013, 16:55:42 11: Montpelier
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: JayMac on April 06, 2013, 17:06:15 #9. It's bleddy Taunton again innit? Real sneaky grahame, featuring Taunton twice in one quiz! ::) :o
Amazing what you fail to notice in your own home town. That logo (no idea what it represents - anyone?) has been on the bridge since at least September 2012 (visible on Google Street View) and I've completely failed to notice it despite walking under that bridge at least two dozen times since September. EDIT. I've discovered what the logo represents. http://www.projecttaunton.co.uk/ Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 06, 2013, 17:39:55 #9. It's bleddy Taunton again innit? Real sneaky grahame, featuring Taunton twice in one quiz! ::) :o Amazing what you fail to notice in your own home town. That logo (no idea what it represents - anyone?) has been on the bridge since at least September 2012 (visible on Google Street View) and I've completely failed to notice it despite walking under that bridge at least two dozen times since September. EDIT. I've discovered what the logo represents. http://www.projecttaunton.co.uk/ Yeppp ... I've rather a good selection of Taunton pictures. Number 11 ain't Severn Beach line, nor indeed Bristol ... Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 06, 2013, 18:19:44 #9. It's bleddy Taunton again innit? Real sneaky grahame, featuring Taunton twice in one quiz! ::) :o I think he only did it to wind me up - yet again. ::) Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: thetrout on April 07, 2013, 00:42:49 #11 isn't somewhere daft like Deep West Cornwall? Say West of Bodmin Parkway... I wonder if you've been a bit economical with the term 'Interchange' too ;) (Thinking Bus Station and Rail Station such as St Austell) ;)
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 07, 2013, 05:11:55 #11 isn't somewhere daft like Deep West Cornwall? Say West of Bodmin Parkway... I wonder if you've been a bit economical with the term 'Interchange' too ;) (Thinking Bus Station and Rail Station such as St Austell) ;) There *are* some daft things (like the buffet location and hours) at #11, but it's not in West Cornwall. The new DfT figures show over 1000 interchanges there per day, and I think their definition is rail to rail. I certainly account for 1 of those interchanges on days I pass by the place. Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: bobm on April 07, 2013, 07:35:28 11. Newport (South Wales)
Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: grahame on April 07, 2013, 08:11:50 11. Newport (South Wales) Yes, indeed ... from the waiting room on platform 4 Title: Re: Home and away - HOME. Post by: bobm on April 07, 2013, 08:14:15 NRE was my friend...
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