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Identify the location of the pictures and additionally the type and TOC of the train where one is shown.

Usual rules apply only one correct answer per person on the first day.

1,site of the former Evesham Road crossing, Stratford upon Avon: DR7835
(https://i.ibb.co/5cN75vQ/q1.jpg)
2,Stratfold barn railway: bradshaw
(https://i.ibb.co/W0GVr78/q2.jpg)
3,Morning Star Pub on Papist Way in Cholsey. Early motive power of old GWR depicted currently served by new GWR:Oxonhutch
(https://i.ibb.co/wWDP2mB/q3.jpg)
4,Stratford-upon-Avon, looking south towards Honeybourne and Cheltenham Spa: brooklea
(https://i.ibb.co/zN5RwDz/q4.jpg)
5,York the Site of the Original York Railway Museum formaly the original York and North Midland railway Station: paul7575
(https://i.ibb.co/Xk782zd/q5.jpg)
6,Droitwich Spa: brooklea
(https://i.ibb.co/sC1Zkt8/q6.jpg)
7,Worcester Shrub Hill: stuving Train:class 172 ex Chiltern on loan to West Midlands: bradshaw
(https://i.ibb.co/zPRdtR8/q7.jpg)
8,View from Edstone aquaduct Bearley West Midland CAF Class 196 DMU on Test: RA
(https://i.ibb.co/gwLBRRd/q8.jpg)

4. Stratford-upon-Avon, looking south towards Honeybourne and Cheltenham Spa.

Correct

5. York.

Correct

3: Morning Star Pub on Papist Way in Cholsey. Early motive power of old GWR depicted currently served by new GWR.

Correct.

Looks like an early attempt at DOO.

Based on the West Midlands Trains/West Midlands Railway class 196 'Civity' unit and the large gap between the running lines, I am going to take a punt on image 8 being taken from the canal towpath on Edstone aqueduct.

7 is Banbury, looking south from the Down Loop platform.  The platform starter is one of the newest semaphores on the network, allowing trains to turn back there - used frequently during the Reading remodelling.

Edit to add (read the question, rower40, do keep up...)
Train is a Chiltern Railways DMU of some flavour.  (168? 170?)  I'm not fussed about rolling stock as long as it obeys the signals and operates the track circuits.  (And possibly, stays put in its sidings overnight - see recent RAIB report about a runaway from Toton.)

Correct. For once I was in the right place at the right time :)

None of that is correct I am afraid.

2 Statfold Barn Railway

7 is Worcester Shrub Hill (P2 looking south, if you must know). As to the unit, I can't say any better than rower40 - it's some kind of Turbostar, in the base colours of Chiltern's livery but with the incriminating details missing. So I'll take a guess it's one of the ex-TPE 168s in the process of being redone for Chiltern - which might explain its being out of area.

Correct

Correct

Sorry no wrong sort of Turbostar and wrong reason.

7 class 172 ex Chiltern on loan to West Midlands

Correct

Just got the picture my train home was just running in and would have blocked the shot.

I think that’s the current ‘official’ version, but there’s quite a few suggestions in other forums that they aren’t likely to be returning.

I should have said that there is some vynals with West Midland branding on the centre of each coach. I did a bit of work with Gimp to remove the one from the nearest coach. It is visible on the other coach.

1.  About 1/3 mile SSE of 4 and looking in roughly the same direction across the site of the former Evesham Road crossing, Stratford upon Avon.

Correct

To round this quiz off, 6. is Droitwich Spa.

Thanks TonyN

Correct.

Thanks everybody for taking part. I will have to start taking more pictures as that brings me right up to date. The Shrub Hill picture was taken this Tuesday.

Huge "Thank you" for the quizzes you have put together this month.  Yes, do have a good 2022 taking more - perhaps the odd "special" during the year, and I suspect there will be an advent too.