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Title: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 07, 2024, 17:15:38 Can you place these artworks all at stations ... 1 each today, please.
1. Haparanda - stuving (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw01.jpg) 2. Bristol Temple Meads - Chris from Nailsea (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw02.jpg) 3. Paddington - ChrisB (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw03.jpg) 4. Antwerpen Centraal, Belgium - JayMac (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw04.jpg) 5. Taormina-Giardini, Scicily - bradshaw (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw05.jpg) 6. (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw06.jpg) 7. Southampton [Central] - ray951 (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw07.jpg) 8. Exeter St Davids - Kempis (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw08.jpg) 9. Weymouth - brooklea (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw09.jpg) 10. Cheltenham Spa - bradshaw (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw10.jpg) 11. Swindon - bobm (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw11.jpg) 12. Hamburg Hauptbahnhof - JayMac (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw12.jpg) Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 07, 2024, 17:18:31 2. Bristol Temple Meads, in the concourse. And no, I wasn't standing next to grahame when he took the picture. ::)
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: ChrisB on September 07, 2024, 17:25:41 3. Paddington :P
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: johnneyw on September 07, 2024, 17:32:16 6. If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: JayMac on September 07, 2024, 17:48:19 4. Antwerpen Centraal, Belgium.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: ray951 on September 07, 2024, 18:05:11 7 Southampton
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 07, 2024, 18:10:33 6. If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station. Actually it hasn't ... and isn't. It's somewhere in South West England. Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 07, 2024, 18:15:01 6. If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station. Actually it hasn't ... and isn't. It's somewhere in South West England. Blimey! :o We both fell for that one, then. :-[ Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: Kempis on September 07, 2024, 18:22:43 8. Exeter St Davids.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: bobm on September 07, 2024, 20:37:31 11 - Swindon
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: Western Pathfinder on September 07, 2024, 21:16:50 06. Taunton.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: bradshaw on September 07, 2024, 21:39:16 10 Cheltenham Spa station
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: johnneyw on September 07, 2024, 21:44:25 6. If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station. Actually it hasn't ... and isn't. It's somewhere in South West England. Hmmm, this quiz is more fiendish than I thought! No points I suppose for getting the person in the picture right... please don't tell me that I've got that wrong as well! :o Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 07, 2024, 22:23:39 I think we were both right in identifying the person in the picture, and the film context: see https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/railway-children-yorkshire-locations .
However, I now also think that the image posted by grahame is a piece of artwork at some completely different location 'somewhere in South West England'. ::) It's not Nailsea and Backwell, if that helps. ;D Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 07, 2024, 22:31:21 6. If it's Jenny Agutter in the railway children then it has to be Oakworth Station. Actually it hasn't ... and isn't. It's somewhere in South West England. Hmmm, this quiz is more fiendish than I thought! No points I suppose for getting the person in the picture right... please don't tell me that I've got that wrong as well! :o It is Jenny Agutter - and indeed a photo still from "The Railway Children" I think. Jenny provided some assistance to our 2005/06 campaign to avoid the SRA proposed cuts from December 2006, and indeed that campaign was broadly successful - the exception being the Swindon to Westbury line which was reduced by 60% to save £30,000 a year and (as I understand it) so they could save some face. Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 08, 2024, 06:20:41 Can you place these artworks all at stations ... 1 each today, please. It's no longer today - it's now tomorrow, so "open house". We have one member who's already answered who is probably raring to tell me where Jenny Agutter's picture is, and one of the picture that I suspect even stuving will find a challenge! Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: stuving on September 08, 2024, 21:02:56 1. Haparanda, Sweden (just).
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: brooklea on September 08, 2024, 21:35:00 The top right corner of the artwork in number 9 bears more than a passing resemblance to the Weymouth Quay terminal building (now demolished as I recall from my last walk down there), and study of the rest of the piece suggests that it may well be at Weymouth station.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 08, 2024, 21:37:04 1. Haparanda, Sweden (just). Yes and that was one of that I expected to stick. Or - I wonder - had I posted similar? Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 08, 2024, 21:44:09 There have been several previous references to Haparanda on the Coffee Shop forum, grahame - most of them by you. ;)
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: eightonedee on September 08, 2024, 22:29:30 With those antiquities in that booking hall - might 5 be Syracuse (Siracusa) Sicily?
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 08, 2024, 22:49:38 With those antiquities in that booking hall - might 5 be Syracuse (Siracusa) Sicily? You're not far away but recalling Syracuse the city was breathtaking but the station disappointing. Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: stuving on September 08, 2024, 22:49:54 1. Haparanda, Sweden (just). Yes and that was one of that I expected to stick. Or - I wonder - had I posted similar? Yes, indeed: (http://www.wellho.net/pix/fisv04.jpg) Though, perhaps oddly, it was the colour that I found looked familiar. Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on September 08, 2024, 22:56:21 Member stuving, you continue to astound me with your encyclopedic knowledge. :D
CfN ;) Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 09, 2024, 06:47:08 These three still not identified (though we have had discussions about 5. and 6.)
5. (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw05.jpg) 6. (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw06.jpg) 12. (https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw12.jpg) Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: GBM on September 09, 2024, 07:03:55 6 Helston?
Local theatre group did a Railway Children show there a few weeks ago Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: eightonedee on September 09, 2024, 09:11:27 Ah..is 5 then Torre Annunziata, the station for Pompei?
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 09, 2024, 09:18:06 Time, I think, for some further clues. No 5 is a big station which I understand is threatened with closure, which serves a major tourist "honey pot" but abysmally. And number 6 is just up the line from one man and his dog. No-one has even attempted number 12 which I find amazing, for that "piece" seems to me almost as iconic as the dove at Antwerp and the bear at Paddington.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: JayMac on September 09, 2024, 12:24:36 12. Hamburg Hauptbahnhof.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: bradshaw on September 09, 2024, 16:40:23 5 Taormina-Giardini station, Scicily
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 09, 2024, 21:57:02 Just the one left ... does a wider view showing the picture in context help?
(https://www.wellho.info/pix/artw06a.jpg) Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: eightonedee on September 09, 2024, 22:17:25 Kirkby Stephen? That assumes that the dog is the famous Ruswarp....
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 10, 2024, 05:27:09 Not Kirby Stephen ... much closer to home.
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: bradshaw on September 10, 2024, 07:40:14 Up the line in the London direction?
If so, the Station Cafe, Gillingham. Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 10, 2024, 08:24:11 Up the line in the London direction? If so, the Station Cafe, Gillingham. Closest yet ... Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: bradshaw on September 10, 2024, 08:39:28 Not up the line but down to Yeovil Junction
Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: grahame on September 10, 2024, 08:42:45 Not up the line but down to Yeovil Junction Yes! ... you have it. Title: Re: Wherefore art thou? Post by: bradshaw on September 10, 2024, 08:57:05 It was the ceramic tiling that gave it away.
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