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Title: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: Red Squirrel on March 06, 2023, 11:33:38 No clues to start with. You lot are too good.
(https://fosbr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/wwrs_20230305.jpg) Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: PrestburyRoad on March 06, 2023, 13:18:02 That looks like the stone blocks that supported the edge rails of a 19th century tramroad, and the location looks very like a site in the South Gloucestershire coalfield that I visited a few years ago. But I may be completely wrong.
Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: JayMac on March 06, 2023, 13:22:04 Yes. Are we somewhere in the vacinity of the Dramway, Coalpit Heath?
Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: Red Squirrel on March 06, 2023, 13:47:04 That looks like the stone blocks that supported the edge rails of a 19th century tramroad, and the location looks very like a site in the South Gloucestershire coalfield that I visited a few years ago. But I may be completely wrong. It does, doesn't it? But it isn't. The stone blocks used to support a platform edge. 'Coalfield' is warm though. Yes. Are we somewhere in the vacinity of the Dramway, Coalpit Heath? I think it would be unhelpful of me to describe this as being 'in the vicinity' of Coalpit Heath. Not too far away though. Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: froome on March 07, 2023, 09:29:05 It isn't anywhere I recognise, but given the clues, perhaps somewhere along the Westerleigh branch line?
Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: Red Squirrel on March 07, 2023, 10:12:10 Wrong side of Bristol,
Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: johnneyw on March 07, 2023, 12:18:29 I momentarily had in mind the Radstock to Frome railway path but the absence of in-situ railway lines makes me question this now.
Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: stuving on March 07, 2023, 12:59:40 Clutton.
Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 5/3/2023? Post by: Red Squirrel on March 07, 2023, 14:31:58 Clutton. He's good, that stuving! It is indeed the site of Clutton station. There's a sort of linear park running north from Station Road towards Fry's Bottom (oops sorry Stephen!) which we used as the basis of a nice circular walk via Cuckoo Lane and Greyfield Wood, finishing (appropriately) with a pint of Frome 'The Usual' in the Railway Inn. 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 |