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It strikes me ... I travel to very many more places on business than most people.  All of these taken on business trips - though often in the evening when I've had a chance to look around.

Let's do this one a little differently ... guess at all ten and I'll tell you how many you have right!

1.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm0.jpg)
2.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm1.jpg)
3.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm2.jpg)
4.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm3.jpg)
5.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm4.jpg)
6.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm5.jpg)
7.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm6.jpg)
8.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm7.jpg)
9.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm8.jpg)
10.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/mmm9.jpg)

I think 4 is a bit too easy, given the running in board on the platform, Grahame?

Paul

Oh yeah ...  :-\  ... should mean that everyone gets at least one out of 10 ...  ;D

I think some are a bit harder .. and there's one in particular that's probably a lot harder!

4.  Taunton.   :P

I think #4 should be called Bradford Under Wraps...temporarily at least! ;D

I would like to guess at a few of them, but am a bit baffled by the rules. If entrant 1 scores 9, then if entrant 2 knows for certain the one entrant 1 got wrong, even if he did not know the others, he just has to repeat the 9 correct answers plus the amended one. Have I got hold of the wrong end of the stick?

It's a team "game" (and a bit of an experiment) ... so say where you think all ten are, and I'll tell you how many are right, but not which.  Then other can pick up from there.

So you may say:
1 Melksham
2 Shadwell
3 Pilning
4 Kyle of Lochalsh
5 Swindon
6 Peterborough
7 Norwich
8 Ludgershall
9 Rugby
10 Avonmouth

And I could say that you have 5 out of the 10 right.    Others then have to work out which they think are the right five and have a go with a modified list.

By the way - I have not got five right in the list above - it's just an example.

OK - so in the spirit of the game I will try not to give away which ones I know for certain, and which ones are wild stabs in the dark :

1. Slough - I think I can make out Windsor listed on the departure board
2. Canary Wharf - the skyscrapers in the background look familiar
3. Paddington - The Grand Union goes right past it
4. Bradford on Avon - probably. If it is a fake, e.g. a film set, they have found some nice GWR benches
5. King's Cross - platform zero sounds like a ghost story, but I think that this station actually has one.
6. Stevenage - I recognise that glass and brick monstrosity in the background
7. The Hague - with its unique yellow buffer stops
8. The disused swing bridge over the Sheepwash Channel at the north end of Oxford station. I only ever once saw the bridge closed.
9. Coventry - I remember visiting there as part of my manhole-cover research project
10. Wolverhampton - the old GWR station.

Many thanks, Puffing Billy ... you HAVE got five (exactly five!) right, which is a pretty good starter.

And I HAVE to ask about that research ....

1. Pass
2. Pomona - Manchester Metrolink
3. Pass
4. Bradford On Avon (Kicking myself for not noticing the platform board first time)
5. Kings Cross (only other station I can think of with platform 0 is Cardiff Central, and that's not NetworkRail operated)
6. Pass
7. Somewhere in Belgium or Holand
8. Pass
9. Pass
10. Liverpool (historic docks area) I was rather supprised to find GWR stuff in Liverpool, did they actually operate trains to/from there?

For passes, use PuffingBilly's suggestions

That makes it rather interesting to mark  :P  ... and in doing so you now have seven out of 10 of the towns  / cities / villages / stations identified correctly.

1. Westbury
2. Pomona, Manchester Metrolink
3. London Paddington
4. Bradford-on-Avon
5. London King's Cross
6. Stevenage
7. Den Haag Centraal, The Hague
8. Swing Bridge over Sheepwash Channel, Oxford
9. Stafford
10. Albert Docks, Liverpool

You're up to eight out of ten there ... now - can anyone spot which are the two that need amending?

Ok. Let's change 1. to Swindon....

Now 9 out of 10  ;D

Hmm. ;)  Well, on second thoughts, 4. is probably not Taunton, after all.  :P ::) ;D

However, 10. is definitely Liverpool:


Such surprise has been expressed on this forum in the past about that, Rhydgaled - see http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=6670.msg66439#msg66439  ;)

OK .. a clue to think about .. centre tracks at terminus stations are hardly likely to be highly polished and well used to the extent of a main line over which trains pass every few minutes.

No pictures from Somersetshire in this series, Chris ... and no stage set photos either. I was in the Wyvern wing of Holby City hospital the week before last, but that's nothing to do with this forum or (as it happens) thread.

Hmm, maybe 7 is Amsterdam Centraal?

I think No.7 is Belgo Centraal  :)

Thanks, so they came up through Chester and Birkenhead. But how did they get under/over the river, ferry? Mersyrail uses a tunnel which is barred to all but electric traction doesn't it?

The map linked to in that page has also reminded me of a question I was asked today, and have pondered myself in the past. Which railway company used a green, red and white colour scheme? Aberystwyth is definately GWR going by the map, yet the colour scheme is also found on the north Wales coast line, which definiately isn't GWR (again based on the map). Something Regional Railways came up with?

Lets try:


1. Westbury
2. Pomona, Manchester Metrolink
3. London Paddington
4. Bradford-on-Avon
5. London King's Cross
6. Stevenage
7. Den Haag Centraal, The Hague
8. Swing Bridge over Sheepwash Channel, Oxford
9. Coventry
10. Albert Docks, Liverpool

I make that 7/10 ... a couple of interesting tests in there  ;)

   
   
Re: Travelling on business
« Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 10:57:09 PM »
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Lets try:


1.        Swindon platform1
2.        Pomona, Manchester Metrolink
3.        London Paddington
4.        Bradford-on-Avon
5.        London King's Cross
6.        Stevenage
7.        Den Haag Centraal, The Hague
8.        Swing Bridge over Sheepwash Channel, Oxford
9.        Stafford
10.      Wolverhampton

Just to be a pedant for a moment is it not Albert Dock in Liverpool without the 's' - or was that just one of those fancy renamings when Richard and Judy and that weather map moved in?

Probably best left unanswerered until it is proved that it is one of the correct picture identifications!

Eight of those are correct


Whether or not the picture is Liverpool (or Wolverhampton, Avonmouth, Birkenhead, Cricklewood, Fowey or somewhere else) , there's the Albert Dock (singular) in Liverpool, which has, I think probably grown in name to include the whole historic area.

Okay lets try

1.        Swindon platform1
2.        Pomona, Manchester Metrolink
3.        London Paddington
4.        Bradford-on-Avon
5.        London King's Cross
6.        Stevenage
7.        Den Haag Centraal, The Hague
8.        Swing Bridge over Sheepwash Channel, Oxford
9.        Coventry
10.      Liverpool

Basset



Edit to amend layout, for clarity. CfN.

Out of desperation, I offer the following totally cynical ploy (if this is cheating, then feel free to withhold the score) :

1. Swindon
2. Pomona, Manchester Metrolink
3. London Paddington
4. Bradford-on-Avon
5. London King's Cross
6. Stevenage
7. Doniford Halt
8. Swing Bridge over Sheepwash Channel, Oxford
9. Stafford
10. Albert Docks, Liverpool

Hmm.  ;)

Isn't 7. Stogumber, rather than Doniford Halt?  :P

But 10. is definitely Liverpool Docks - I reckon!  ;D

On that basis, I suggest that the last one is 7. Leiden, Centraal Station - partly on the grounds I was there a few years ago, though as it wasn't dark at the time I don't recognise it.

That's an eight

and


That is a well strategised 9  ;)


And that was a well read clue.  However, still just 9.  I'm surprised ... all around the goal, but no-one has the ball in yet.

If so it's changed a bit since we were both there Chris:

(http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/stogumber_zps8538bc1a.jpg)
 ;)

I think I had better make a further comment to help identify the picture which seems to be causing an issue.  I find the Harwich to Hoek ferry a useful one ... for travel to the Netherlands and to Germany.   I suppose I'm surprised just how difficult the final picture is turning out to be considering that this is a route that I expect other who use this forum might travel on from time to time too.

So Is No 7

Hoek van holland?

You are on the right line there!

I'm going to hazard a guess for number 7 of Rotterdam Centraal - I can't see that anyone's suggested that yet.

Indeed they haven't ... that's the suggestion that I've been looking for, as it's the correct answer  ;D

The train is the service from Hoek van Holland; this is now (I think) the only service from Hoek ... and comes into one end of this platform. Behind the buffer stop , a crossover brings through trains off those well polished centre tracks onto the other end of the same platform.   Connections onwards from Rotterdam to ... well - all sorts of places.

Complete (10 of 10) set is ...
1. Swindon
2. Pomona, Manchester Metrolink
3. London Paddington
4. Bradford-on-Avon
5. London King's Cross
6. Stevenage
7. Rotterdam Central
8. Swing Bridge over Sheepwash Channel, Oxford
9. Stafford
10. Albert Docks, Liverpool