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Title: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 07, 2016, 22:42:30 Twelve recent pictures - but where did I take each of them?
Just one guess each please for the first 24 hours (but you can have another go if you get one wrong). Some I suspect will go rather quickly ... and I thing one or two may take a while. 1. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_01.jpg) 2. Leeds - chrisr_75 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_02.jpg) 3. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_03.jpg) 4. Salisbury - DavidBrown (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_04.jpg) 5. King's Cross - ellendune (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_05.jpg) 6. Exeter Central - signalandtelegraph (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_06.jpg) 7. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_07.jpg) 8. Taunton - Puffing Billy (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_08.jpg) 9. Chippenham - John R (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_09.jpg) 10. Melksham - TomL (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_10.jpg) 11. Trowbridge - Bignosemac and Bradshae (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_11.jpg) 12. Bristol Temple Meads - chuffed and others (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_12.jpg) Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: ellendune on March 07, 2016, 22:51:25 5 Kings Cross
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Western Pathfinder on March 07, 2016, 23:21:19 No 12 Paddington ?.
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: chrisr_75 on March 07, 2016, 23:31:49 No. 2 - Leeds?
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: tomL on March 08, 2016, 00:08:03 10. Melksham? On the sacred HST day? ;D
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: ChrisB on March 08, 2016, 05:26:21 12. Oxford
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: signalandtelegraph on March 08, 2016, 07:02:23 6. Exeter Central
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: DavidBrown on March 08, 2016, 07:26:33 4. Salisbury
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 08, 2016, 07:30:55 You're all doing well - all identities correct so far except no. 12 - think green ...
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: John R on March 08, 2016, 07:36:25 9. Chippenham.
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Western Pathfinder on March 08, 2016, 08:10:26 You're all doing well - all identities correct so far except no. 12 - think green ... Waterloo.! Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 08, 2016, 08:21:29 You're all doing well - all identities correct so far except no. 12 - think green ... Waterloo.! Not quite, I'm afraid - I thought my green hint was capital and very European ... and very much in area for a GWR forum - but perhaps it was a bit 'last year'. Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: chuffed on March 08, 2016, 08:23:13 Bristol Temple Meads Platform 2 bike storage area. Green capital city of Europe and all that.
I wonder if grahame will now give us his Young Mr Grace impression..you've all done VERY well..... Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Puffing Billy on March 08, 2016, 08:40:33 No 8 - Taunton
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: JayMac on March 08, 2016, 09:48:23 11 Trowbridge.
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: stuving on March 08, 2016, 10:40:00 Not quite, I'm afraid - I thought my green hint was capital and very European ... and very much in area for a GWR forum - but perhaps it was a bit 'last year'. Well, Bristol then, if you say so. Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: bradshaw on March 08, 2016, 16:24:48 11 Trowbridge, Stallard Street bridge in background, and 12 Bristol Temple Meads by platform 3/4
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 08, 2016, 20:13:05 11 Trowbridge. No 8 - Taunton 11 Trowbridge, Stallard Street bridge in background, and 12 Bristol Temple Meads by platform 3/4 Yep, all correct (that extra detail too ... I suppose it's technically platforms 2 and 4 at Temple Meads!) Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 08, 2016, 20:21:45 Just 3 left to identify - no.s 1, 3 and 7. "Open house" for anyone who's identified one of the others already -even though it's not qute 24 hours yet.
One of these pictures was actually taken within the last 24 hours (even now ...) 1. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_01.jpg) 3. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_03.jpg) 7. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qzm16_07.jpg) Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: ChrisB on March 08, 2016, 21:16:11 Is 3 Three Bridges?
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 08, 2016, 21:22:28 Is 3 Three Bridges? Sorry Chris - there's no clue in the question number ... as I recall this place could be called "No Bridges". Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: JayMac on March 08, 2016, 22:17:18 Wild guess at #1...
Bedford? Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 08, 2016, 22:24:21 Wild guess at #1... Bedford? Appreciate the try ... but way out, I'm afraid. Best I can offer is "right country" ... Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: bradshaw on March 09, 2016, 13:28:00 No 7 at a wild guess
Romsey? Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: signalandtelegraph on March 10, 2016, 12:10:58 No 7 Between Dilton Marsh and Westbury?
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 10, 2016, 12:20:39 No 7 Between Dilton Marsh and Westbury? YES - that's correct .. I expected that to be the very last one to be identified. Wow! Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: JayMac on March 13, 2016, 20:45:31 Any clues for 1 and 3?
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 13, 2016, 20:51:48 1. Weston Milton?
I have a nagging doubt that I really ought to know the answer. :-[ Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 13, 2016, 21:23:06 The two remaining ones are darned hard ... I probably shouldn't have included them. Sorry - not Weston Milton.
No. 1 isn't a frequent stop for trains in those colours - they're very much the interloper there and I'll admit to being rather surprised when I found a First train for the short journey I took on it, having just travelled quite some way to the place I connected on a different TOC. No. 3 ... you've probably already scratched your heads with the "no bridges" clue I gave, and yet it's a double track line. Both pictures at the outer end of trips I took - one to give an IT course, and the other to attend a transport event. Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 13, 2016, 21:28:51 The two remaining ones are darned hard ... I probably shouldn't have included them. Sorry - not Weston Milton. No problem, grahame. ;) I've looked at that picture several times, in the past few days, and while it does have some elements of Weston Milton about it (raised concrete platform, lamp posts, etc.), I was never completely convinced. ::) Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 13, 2016, 21:47:36 And both of these stations handle between quarter and half a million passenger journeys per year ...
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 13, 2016, 21:57:52 Definitely not Weston Milton, then. ;D
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: paul7575 on March 13, 2016, 23:25:42 Could 1 be Havant?
Paul Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 14, 2016, 00:14:00 Could 1 be Havant? Paul Neatly fits the clues, I can see - but sorry, you haven't got it ;). Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Adelante_CCT on March 14, 2016, 10:20:55 Could 1 be Havant? Paul Neatly fits the clues, I can see - but sorry, you haven't got it ;). Shouldn't that be 'you Havant got it' ? Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: Surrey 455 on March 14, 2016, 22:43:03 Could 1 be Havant? Paul Neatly fits the clues, I can see - but sorry, you haven't got it ;). I don't know where no.1 is but my initial impression was that this had to be a station served by a Thames valley train on the basis that it had dynamic lines. I thought only High speed and LTV FGW trains have that? However... the next photo shot in Leeds also has a train with dynamic lines so I suspect the first photo is in the same locality Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 15, 2016, 06:25:49 However... the next photo shot in Leeds also has a train with dynamic lines so I suspect the first photo is in the same locality Or the same TOC? Two pictures taken ... 10 minutes or so earlier than no.1 (of the same train) and a couple of minutes later than no. 3 (at the same station) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/helper06.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/helper07.jpg) Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: signalandtelegraph on March 16, 2016, 15:39:10 3. Leeds
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 16, 2016, 17:16:38 3. Leeds Nope, not even the right county - sorry! Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 19, 2016, 06:30:18 OK ... those two remaining are darned difficult. Anagram time ... or rather list of letters in names.
1. [' ', 'a', 'a', 'd', 'd', 'e', 'h', 'l', 'm', 'o', 'r', 't', 'u'] 3. ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'e', 'e', 'h', 'r', 't', 'w'] Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: old original on March 19, 2016, 07:18:20 1 - Mauldeth Road somewhere near Manchester I think
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: JayMac on March 19, 2016, 07:26:02 3 Waterbeach
Title: Re: 12 of the best Post by: grahame on March 19, 2016, 08:25:45 Indeed - Mauldeth Road, first station on the line towards Manchester Airport; half hourly service from Northern Rail, but with additional peak hour stops by TransPennine Express. I was up there a couple of weeks back now - attending a bus event at Ardwick Green and stayed in a 'hotel' on the Wilmslow Road the night before.
And Waterbeach - first station (at the moment) to the north of Cambridge. There's an intermediate station due to be opened to serve the science park / business park area, as at present Cambridge is too far south and Waterbeach is too far north. 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 |