Great Western Coffee Shop

A bit of a quizzy weekend what with thetrout's traditional picture quiz (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=12389.0) (do have a go at the ones that are left) and, available to Frequent Posters, grahame's 'Out of order' picture quiz (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=12391.0).

My turn to add to the fray, but with something a little different. The following picture sets are semi-cryptic sequence clues to station names. Eight of them are stations in FGW land and the remainder are from all over the UK.

Just for fun, but... as always, to let everyone have a go, please just one guess each for the first 24 hours... Informed of an incorrect guess then you can have another go.

So, can you guess the station name from the picture sequences?

1. Runcorn East, answered by Brucey
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete11_zpsa91b8ad8.jpg)

2. Gunnislake, bobm
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete7_zps9b0d0d5b.jpg)

3. Kidwelly, Red Squirrel
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete10_zps85fbef9e.jpg)

4. Coatbridge Sunnyside, stuving
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/complete4_zps9f93adf2.jpg)

5. Ealing Broadway, grahame
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/complete5_zpsdf9de695.jpeg)

6. Gloucester, trainer
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete6_zps4ff21112.jpg)

7. British Steel Redcar, grahame
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/complete2_zps67603a8f.jpg)

8. Ashchurch for Tewkesbury, stuving
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/complete_zpscd137f03.jpg)

9. Lazonby and Kirkoswald, devon_metro
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete13_zps1fda5c00.jpg)

10. Clifton Down, johoare
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/complete3_zps68a9385b.jpg)

11. Maidstone Barracks, chris from nailsea
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete14_zps74252b5f.jpg)

12. Keyham, John R
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete9_zps765f7fee.jpeg)

13. Honeybourne, thetrout
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete8_zps12f1a848.jpg)

14. Woolwich Arsenal, richwarwicker and chuffed
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete15_zps1a5c40a7.jpg)

15. Taunton, Red Squirrel
(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/Cryptic%20Picture%20Quiz%20May%202013/Complete12a_zps3f9734d4.jpg)

1. Runcorn East

Correct!

No 2 - Gunnislake?

Correct!

Gun, Knees, (Veronica) Lake.  ;)

5 Eel, Ling, Broadway. So that's not a clue for Mill Hill East, is it?  ;D

Correct, Ealing Broadway!

14 Woolwich Arsenal  Wool, Itch, Arsene, (not sure what pic 4 is)

Wool itch Arsene Awl = Woolwich Arsenal

Correct, and the fourth picture is as chuffed says:

11. Maid stone Baracks  :P

Correct, Maidstone Barracks.

3 - Kidwelly

Aha! 4 must be the oxymoronically named Coatbridge Sunnyside.

... and wouldn't 8 be Ashchurch for Tewkesbury?

... easy for you to say ...  :o


Good shout, stuving - I got as far as Charlotte Church (so to speak) on that one ...  :-[

Correct!


Correct! Coat, (contract) bridge, Sonny (and Cher), side.


Also correct. Ash (tree), (Charlotte) Church, Four, Chew, Kes, (Nick) Berry.  :P

And I'll let giving two answers slide, as you are a relatively new forum member. But please note the request, in large type, bold and underlined in the OP.  ::)

Fair comment.  ::)

5. Eel Ling Broadway

That is correct ellendune, although it was answered earlier in the day. Have another go.

Those that remain unanswered are 6,7,9,12,13,15.

Is 7. Barkingside (Ilford)?

I'm basing that on the noise a dog makes plus Illya Kuryakin and what I'm guessing is a Ford Escort, but I'm very aware that I'm prone to over-engineering my guesses so I'm probably way out.

Not even close! Have another go. Hint: It's another character played by David McCallum.

10. Clifton Down?

Correct! (Bernie) Clifton, down.

That took me a while to guess as I'd got the down bit, but was somehow trying to fit Rod Hull or Emu into it (!)  ::) ::)

DMU rather than EMU at Clifton Down ...  ;)

6. Gloucester ?

12. Key (Quay) ham

Oops. Sorry for the faux pas. To be honest I had understood that instruction as per each question of the set - until afterwards, when it struck me that I might be wrong. The wording of course is not unambiguous; but such is the deliquescent solidity of meaning in our language. No doubt I should have realised what was intended; I suspect I missed it because when I read it I was thinking "I won't have time to look at that...".

Correct. Gloss, stir.  ;)

I thought that was one of the hardest to guess as I was using a slang term for a prison.

Correct!

Nos 7, 9, 13 & 15 to go.

I have been into prisons but not sent to them.  ;D

In which case, I was sadly mistaken in thinking that 6 was Albany Prison (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/nonrail/albanyprison.aspx).  :-[

Jo and I both know the correct answer to 9, however.  ;) :D ;D

Well you learn something new every day. Albany Prison is on National Rail Enquiries. No station near it though and that three letter NLC can't be right. ALB is Albrighton. Total coincidence that the picture of the tin of gloss paint was of the 'Albany' brand.

9. Lazonby & Kirkoswald

Correct. (George) Lazenby, and, (James T.) Kirk, Oswald (Mosley). I'm quite proud of that one!  ;)

Yes, that was a good one, bignosemac: I worked back from Oswald Mosley to get that answer, so to speak.  :P

Well, that leaves a fairly wide field of possibilities ...  :o

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCallum  ::)

13 - Honeybourne?

Aha! 15 - Torntun

Full marks to BNM for coming up with something delicously different in the quiz stakes. One of his best I think, if the groans, (when you found out the answer) were anything to go by ! Almost drowned out the station announcements at Temple Meads !

Correct. Honey, (Jason) Bourne

Correct! Taunton.

But.... naughty Tufty, having another go before the 24 hours were up. Never mind. Just be careful when the ice cream van comes.

That just leaves no. 7 to answer. I'll open up the floor for anyone to answer it.

British steal red car (red ones always popular with the boy racers ...)

Correct. British (bulldog), (Sapphire &) Steel, red car.

Well done all who took part. I've got a dozen or so more picture sequences saved. Look out for another quiz on the late May Bank Holiday weekend.

May I suggest adding that to the forum calendar?

Oops! An honest mistake... I allowed myself to be confused by the time format; the leading zero switches my tiny squirrel brain into 24-hr clock mode, and no amount of trailing 'AM' or 'PM' is able to dislodge the idea. I promise to be more careful in future.

Thanks for putting up the quiz; I really enjoyed it and I hope my transgression didn't deprive anyone of their go. :-[

Indeed: many thanks for posting that challenging variation on our usual forum quiz format, bignosemac!  :D


Hmm.  Thanks for your suggestion, trout, but I think not.  We on the admin team here are all volunteers, offering our free time to compile such things, so there is a danger that we'd set an expectation of something definitely happening by a particular date, if it were to have a diary entry - but personal circumstances might unfortunately delay its publication on this forum.  :P

However, I'm sure we'll all look out for bignosemac's next challenging quiz, in due course!  ;D

Thank-you for the apology. It's no great issue when the quiz was just for fun. And I can't really admonish you further for your faux pas when your mea culpa includes the the delightfully flowery term, "deliquescent solidity of meaning".

I had to look up 'deliquescent'.  Turns out it's nothing to do with shops that sell cured meats.  :P

As a lover of the English language (I taught it for 27 years to those who were less so), I'd like to thank stuving (oh the pain of writing proper nouns without a capital  :-\) for introducing me to a new word which will now be brought out for Scrabble).  The educational value of this forum never ceases to impress.  :D

Please let me add my thanks BNM for an excellent quiz.