Great Western Coffee Shop

My first is within the FGW saved area.  My second is within the UK.  And my third is far, far away. But I know that at least 1 or 2 members may recognise the style, of not the exact location, of each.

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1 is Weymouth

Was it the caravan that gave it away?  ;)

Yes, you're right.  Now - how about the 'mid' (UK but not FGW) and far (not UK) pictures?

the traffic cone is a good friend of mine, is number two in the northwest

I could never tell one traffic cone from another ...

Number two.   Hmm - do you mean geographically in the North West quadrant of the UK (Yes) or in the area known as the North West of England? (No).

Is 3 Uastralia?

No 3 is definitely somewhere on Amtrak's Northeast corridor (i.e. on the line between Boston and Washington DC via New York and Philadelphia). At a wild guess, is it Wilmington, DE?

The third one is indeed the North East Corridor ... the wild guess of Wilmington isn't it, but it's not that wildly distant.  Sorry, Mookiemoo ... Australia is way out (but I wondered if you might get No. 2 - I suspect you're one of the more likely members to do so!)

is number two between chester and holyhead

Hmm.  I rather think, relex109, that when grahame suggested that 2 is 'in the North West quadrant of the UK', he may have been hinting that we should look rather further afield.  To Northern Ireland, for example?  :-X

And given I never travelled on NIR I have no fecking idea!  If that is where it is

Its not cotswolds I can say that

well i class northwest as chester across to macclesfield and upto  leeds, if you split the uk up into quadrants would north wales not be in the north western quad  ;D

i dont know why but apart from the track relay aws magnent or whatever it is, it kind of has a private railway feel to it

actually if you divide the UK - North wales is in the south west

I thought that afterwards

Those of you who 'suspect' Northern Ireland are right ... and those who say 'private feel' are closer than you thinks.

It's at Whitehead on the Belfast to Larne line. And the siding off to the right is to the presevation society's depot .. they run occasional specials from here on the mainline.

I had a look at the picture and got the odd feel too ...

Slightly different track scale / gauge
Rocks on platform ramp
Very busy foot crfossing over running lines

Next station up the line is "Ballycarry"

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It has an hourly service through the day, with this peak hour train dropping off 4 people from Belfast.  There's very little within half a mile, but an excellent service and a recently upgraded station.  Ballycarry village is just over that half mile, and up a steep hill.

I can't but help draing comparisons and thinking that of a certain station in FGW land that serves not a handful of houses but a whole town, and yet has just 2 trains each way daily.  I get the feeling from looking round over here (I'm writing from Northern Ireland) that there's a big outflow of tax money from the  South West of England to these parts ...

Hang on, that train in the background in no 3 looks to me like it could be the Washington DC metro...so could that station be New Carrollton, Maryland?

Spot on!  Star - Star - Star (3 gold stars).  I somehow guess that you might get that one  ;)

Were it not for the DC metro train visible on the other side of the station I'd have been sunk...I've only been through that station 3 times!

No!! I didn't recognise the DC metro!! There are only a few of these picture quizzes I can get.. And each time there is one I should know, I miss it completely!  :o ;D I will try harder...  :)

These picture quizzes can be very hard ... especially on the far-away ones;  I'll admit to choosing a picture with the metro in the background to give at least some of you folks here  :D a sporting chance - but still not easy.

I do sometimes wonder whether picture quizzes are a good idea - after all, everyone starts off enthusiastic, and then end up saying"I can't get that" or "I came so close" - in fact it reads like a recipe for disastererous member relations.  But then I think what a big success the national lottery show is, and there you have millions coming along hopeful at the start of the show, and virtually all of them going away with a dream shattered for another week.

Aren't those two statements mutually exclusive?

Too hot to work this afternoon, so I'm going to post some suggestions ...

1. One end of the preserved railway that runs from Bitton in Bristol.
2. The end of the siding off the GW line as it approaches Salisbury / towards the GW station
3. Moorswater
4. Radstock
5. Mendip Vale

I can predict that I'll be at least 80% wrong!

It could be just south of the platform at Rose Hill Station in Marple, possibly looking north where the line continues towards Manchester.

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TerminalJunkie has just answered all the recent questions... yes it is a difficult one, but as already discussed this is where i am from originally so anyone who has read this previously would know that it is indeed rosehill  :D

a station which in theory should not have survived the beeching axe

hold on....TerminalJunkie you cheat  :)

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