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Title: pub quiz - where is this? Post by: the void on September 19, 2013, 07:27:12 can you identify the location? photo came from a surprising source, bonus points if you know where from!
Title: Re: pub quiz - where is this? Post by: stuving on September 19, 2013, 08:22:19 can you identify the location? photo came from a surprising source, bonus points if you know where from! Wellingborough. Not a clue where the image is from, though. Title: Re: pub quiz - where is this? Post by: Worcester_Passenger on September 19, 2013, 09:57:54 It'd be worse in colour - that fancy new footbridge has supports that are clad in brown stone, while the station buildings are very typical Midland Railway work in brick. How it got past any planners is beyond me.
Title: Re: pub quiz - where is this? Post by: stuving on September 19, 2013, 12:07:40 It'd be worse in colour - that fancy new footbridge has supports that are clad in brown stone, while the station buildings are very typical Midland Railway work in brick. How it got past any planners is beyond me. Not sure about that - the photo shows the old bridge, which wasn't very pretty either. Oddly, the cladding of the new one was the one thing the planners did say had to be changed. As it was a listed building consent, they have more clout than a normal railway development. The documents as posted by BC of Wellingorough (Reference number WP/2010/0254) are incomplete and in many cases illegible, with no trace of what cladding was eventually used. There's just one objection from a citizen - and that was after it was built - making much the same point you do, as well as objecting to its size. It suggests the planners actually insisted on the ironstone! I suggest you have a look: http://planning.wellingborough.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=120489 (http://planning.wellingborough.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=120489) Title: Re: pub quiz - where is this? Post by: the void on September 19, 2013, 14:46:11 The photo is actually a screen grab from a TV show. An American TV show! In the strangest use of railway stock footage I've seen, this scene actually appears in the final five minutes of episode 9 of Hannibal - a flashback scene (hence the monochrome) showing the killer tracking their victim on a train. The scene is set in Minnesota but the series is shot in Toronto, so why the use of stock footage from Northamptonshire!? Surely anyone can see it's clearly England? Plus the Class 43 is pretty iconic, you don't need to know your trains to recognise an 'Intercity 125'. Bet you don't find many of them in Minnesota!
Title: Re: pub quiz - where is this? Post by: Worcester_Passenger on September 19, 2013, 17:41:08 Not sure about that - the photo shows the old bridge, which wasn't very pretty either. Yes - you're right. The new bridge is square. See attached. Oddly, the cladding of the new one was the one thing the planners did say had to be changed. As it was a listed building consent, they have more clout than a normal railway development. The documents as posted by BC of Wellingorough (Reference number WP/2010/0254) are incomplete and in many cases illegible, with no trace of what cladding was eventually used. There's just one objection from a citizen - and that was after it was built - making much the same point you do, as well as objecting to its size. It suggests the planners actually insisted on the ironstone! I suggest you have a look: http://planning.wellingborough.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=120489 (http://planning.wellingborough.gov.uk/portal/servlets/AttachmentShowServlet?ImageName=120489) Gosh - I'm amazed that that one got through. Some photos of the existing building and the new footbridge attached... This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |