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Just one each, please, for the first 24 hours. Yes I know some are EASY!

1. Brighton - bradshaw
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq101.jpg)

2. Weymouth - Merthyr Imp
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq102.jpg)

3. Cheltenham Spa - PrestburyRoad
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq103.jpg)

4. Melksham - brooklea
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq104.jpg)

5. Athone - stuving
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq105.jpg)

6. Vilius - stuving
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq106.jpg)

7. Birminham New Street - eightonedee
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq107.jpg)

8. Rhymney - Merthyr Imp
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq108.jpg)

9. Sway - MVR S&T
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq109.jpg)

10.  St Pancras International - bradshaw
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq110.jpg)

11 to 20 to follow in 5 minutes

11. Avonmouth - Western Pathfinder
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq111.jpg)

12. Taunton - stuving
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq112.jpg)

13. Harpenden - Merthyr Imp
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq113.jpg)

14. Flensberg - eightonedee
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq114.jpg)

15. Paignton - johnneyw
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq115.jpg)

16. Kosice - stuving
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq116.jpg)

17. Tondu - Oxonhutch
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq117.jpg)

18. Kemble - PrestburyRoad
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq118.jpg)

19. Cam and Dursley - Chuffed
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq119.jpg)

20. Glasgow Central Low Level - stuving
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq120.jpg)

6: Vilnius.

Good grief - that was fast.

15 Paignton?

3. Cheltenham Spa, near the bike sheds on the eastern side of the station.

7 - Birmingham New Street?

Yes, I thought that - but didn't have the nerve to post.  :P

I thought that as well, looking at the gloom and the low ceiling.

That'll be Birmingham New Street, then.  ;D

2 - Weymouth?

11 Melksham loop?  :'(

19. Cam and Dursley

Lots and lots of correct answers which I will edit back into the original before I head out to listen and learn at  BRTA at Westbury today (and inform should anyone want to hear my views).    The only one that's a "no" - and it was asked in jest anyway - is


And of course there IS no loop.  But yet the (single) track condition through Melksham looks so much better and cared for than the track in that picture ...

17: Tondu

Easy for you to say.  :D


Funnily enough, I was also tempted to post, '11. Melksham' but my nerve failed me - again.  ;D

My excuse is I'm old enough not to really care!
Melksham mostly features in graham's quizzes in some form or other, so apart from TAUNTON, it's Melksham  ;D

1Brighton, the Wall Siding from Platform 1

And this time 12 is Taunton!

20: Glasgow Central Low Level.

A day has passed so I'll venture a second contribution
18. The engineers' platform at Kemble, which is the short stub of the branch to Cirencester.

11 Coombe Junction now 24 hours are past.

Really?  Wow!  I love Kemble station, and have in the past had a nose around - but I haven't seen that.  ::)

9. Sway?

Lots of excellent and correct answers:

1 Brighton - bradshaw
2 Weymouth - Merthyr Imp
3 Cheltenham Spa - PrestburyRoad

6 Vilius - stuving
7 Birminham New Street - eightonedee

9 Sway - MVR S&T

12 Taunton - stuving

15 Paignton - johnneyw

17 Tondu - Oxonhutch
18 Kemble - PrestburyRoad
19 Cam and Dursley - Chuffed
20 Glasgow Central Low Level - stuving

No-one has identified number 11 correctly yet  :D

13 - Harpenden?

14 - Flensburg, Germany

Both correct ... and six remain to be answered.  Once some more have gone, I'll summaries the remaining ones into this thread.

No.11 Avonmouth after the road crossing for the sea terminal by the M5 over bridge.

10 St Pancras International

Yes and Yes - Avonmouth and St Pancras. So remaining, we have just these 4.

4.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq104.jpg)

5.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq105.jpg)

8.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq108.jpg)

16.
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/trq116.jpg)

4. Melksham, just north of the station

While clear evidence is scant, I reckon 16 must be Železničná stanica Košice.

Yes - you never cease to amaze me - that is Košice - which I expected to really stick when I put it in the quiz!

And


yes - surprising how LONG that one took!

8 - Rhymney?

Yes.  And an admission I had that mislabelled and had it down as Ebbw Vale Town and had to go back to my image library.   I have only spent a few minutes - ever - at Rhymney Station, arriving at an old station with a big and empty stock yard, empty, on one side in an ultramodern train.  An exhilarating run back to Cardiff in what I recall was half the normal time to get back onto schedule; as I recall we regained something like half an hour an it was a classic illustration of the cost of a large number of intermediate stops.

Then there was just one left to identify:

That last one looks like its  Irish to me.

Yes it is ... Athlone. A name that, for some of us, belongs forever in a list with with Hilversum, Kalundborg, Allouis, Tirana, and many others (including perhaps Droitwich).

Yes - although the picture is the RaILWAY station and not the RaDIO station ;-)

True, though there is a socking great microwave tower less than 200 m away. Nothing to do with the old medium wave transmitter, which is a couple of miles east of he town.

When is it that Droitwich sees its last transmission, anyone?

Mark

Google is your friend.....highlightingg your question & searching google.

Now, you could add an extra twist of lemon to that by pointing people at the following tool - though I'll use this particular search to check if there's a station on the network with the three letter code 'BBC'.


https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Droitwich+BBC+long+wave+transmitter+end+date (https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Droitwich+BBC+long+wave+transmitter+end+date)

It appears though, that, while someone somewhere will probably know the date, it's not yet found its way on to the Google-searchable web.

Mark

That Droitwich long-wave transmitter brings back a memory from the 1970s.

We were travelling on the M5 past Droitwich in the days when car radios had two bands - long-wave and medium-wave.  The radio was tuned to medium-wave but as we went past Droitwich the sound from the radio changed to the long-wave programme.  Eh?, we thought - what's going on here?  After we had got past Droitwich the sound returned to the medium-wave programme.  We assumed that the signal from that big powerful long-wave transmitter had been so strong that it had forced its way into the innards of the radio and had swamped the intermediate frequency used in the radio that the radio usually got from the medium-wave signal.  Oh well, we thought, that's interesting, and no harm done.  We were glad we lived away from Droitwich.

Lovely. Wonder how well the long wave signal gets into a Voyager?

Mark

Always going to happen with the 'old' car radio's.

Strong breakthrough from local transmitter would always triumph over whatever you were listening to.
Going past Avonmouth maritime transmitters you would always pick up morse code.

Not forgetting Port Z Radio which was in fact in Highbridge.-..-.-..-
And ceased transmission back in 2000.

Good local knowledge there WP.
I trained at Port Z (Highbridge) and stayed for 10 months until moving on to the Coast Radio Stations (Maritime that is - not the other sort of local radio station!)

As a long time resident of Port Z ...the town of 30,000 people without a post office or a railway...it reminds me of a story about horse shoe nails which were once  solely  (geddit?) manufactured in the town. A faulty consignment needed to be returned....and then went astray (as horses do!)...and they were eventually found in Egypt !!!

Also happened when driving on the A30 going past the Admiralty remote station by Indian Queens (Cornwall).  Breakthrough on the old car radio's happened from those transmissions.
Other remoted stations were available throughout the UK!

That brought back a vague memory.  I seem to recall going to some social function linked to my then girlfriend's family there in the late 80s/early 90s.  Did the facility have a social club or similar, can anyone tell me?

When I was young for a time I lived in a cottage with a small valley and a stream running through the garden. The telephone looped from the telegraph post at the roadside to the house. You picked up the telephone handset and got crystal clear AFN Frankfurt. Must have been what started my interest in jazz.

If you want to fall down a web rabbithole and vanish for an hour or so:

https://portisheadradio.co.uk/home

I did, and have only just returned to the surface.  :D

Now, to get my own back (as in Backwell ;) ), you could view this.  I have absolutely no commercial connection with the estate agency involved in the clip.  I will, however, confess to having sort of 'burgled' that derelict site, by climbing through a gap in the fencing, many years ago, just to explore it. It's a former BT (British Telecommunications) radio research laboratory, on the hillside above Backwell, North Somerset.

It was absolutely fascinating. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zzaYX5qV0s&ab_channel=HollisMorganEstateAgents%26Auctioneers  ;)

Yes, the Burnham on Sea did have very active social club