Great Western Coffee Shop

Try these... Only 1 of these though are served by FGW... Others close to FGW Land, Others a far way away :)

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is 5 smethick Galton Bridge?

I was thinking that myself..............would have to be the low level look toward wolverhampton but the platforms look wrongly aligned for that

Is #3 Yeovil Junction?

Love the way the camera has superimposed what appears to be a flying pig on the "Track Record" poster on #4, by the way

I'm not certain by any means, but it does seem to have the right kind of fencing, the right livery on the train and the overbridge has electrification posts.

Its certainly not looking down towards brum as there is a tunnel right at the end of the platform.

For that to be looking towards wolverhampton, the southbound platform would have to extend further north than the wolverhampton bound one otherwise it would not be visible when the other isnt.  BUT I dont think it does.

Smethwick Galton Bridge is on quite a sharp curve, and there are no bridges immediately north of the station on the Wolverhampton side. Southbound there's no tunnel, but there is the bridge where the high level platforms are, though again the track is on a curve and whilst there are two very similar bridges there is no sign of the junction just south of the station. Therefore I'm pretty sure it's not there, though it may well be on the same stretch of track?

Okay - when I said tunnel I meant the big bridge thing - in laymans terms its much the same thing!

Fair enough. In non-layman's terms I do believe there is an official length where railway bridges/structures become classified as tunnels. Does anyone know what it is? I'm thinking 200 yards?

If 5 is not Galton Bridge what about Rolfe Street? Othewise I'd go for Sandwell and Dudley or Cosley? Unfortunately I know the canals better than the railway in that area, but those 3 are the only ones on the Stour Valley that I can think of as being in cuttings  as the canal is at those points.

Just out of interst do you realise that the Stour Valley line is mostly at around 500'? The Birmingahm level being 453' and the Wolverhampton level 473' and the railway is above the canal most of the way. I think the BCN are the most fasinating canals around.

Is 3 Midland it looks very Midland in style but a later extension. So S&C?

Is 1 Shrewsbury Crewe junction? The North end of the station.

A trivial pursuits fact about Shrewsbury is that it has upper (LM) and  lower (GW) quadrant and colour light signals. Recently when a signal arm had to be replaced it had to be a lower quadrant because there was one more lower quadrant arm in the area thus  the replacement had to be the most prominent type i.e. lower quadrant. Until Shrewsbury is resignalled this means that if any more arms require replacing they will all be lower quadrants.

I can rule out Sandwell and Dudley - that is elevated (waited for a virgin to london often enough there)

I've heard there aren't too many virgins in Dudley.

That wall does look familiar ............ not sure about the bike rack but never walked that far up - but also not 100% sure Shrewsbury has 7 platforms labelled a/b

There is one at the far side of the station
Then the main one for north bound trains
the main one for south bound trains (which is the one I think that picture may be of)
And two bay platforms....

that makes five however I could be completely wrong

Looks about right to me! http://www.panoramio.com/photo/22504099 (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/22504099)

Old out of use platforms would probably account for the slightly strange platform number!

#1 Is Shrewsbury ;) London Marylebone Trains (Wrexham & Shropshire) use this platform ;)

#3 Is Not Midland or Yeovil Junction

#5 Is not Sandwell & Dudley, Cosley or Rolfe Street

*edit*

#5 Also is not Smethwick Galton Bridge :(

all the southbound trains use that platform if they do not start at shrewsbury

Is 5 Tame Bridge Parkway?

I think you are right.  look at http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3630/3704611160_6e2c249bbc.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/57601/3704611160/&usg=__skc7JBXCq4UcltD2vsy3BOFFkkM=&h=333&w=500&sz=153&hl=en&start=48&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=vdpJk7ve_02xyM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtame%2Bbridge%2Bparkway%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26start%3D40%26um%3D1

Tim

#5 Is indeed Tame Bridge Parkway ;)

Just 2,3 and 4 left now... ;)

4 is Yeovil Junction

Should have got 5 isn't that the aqueduct carrying the Tame Valley Canal in the background? It's the canal  that you see from the Northbound M6 and go under on the M5 just before the M5/6 junction.

2. Bridgwater?

Correct ;D

2 is Bridgwater and 4 is also Yeovil Junction...

3 Left... A Clue, I can get to this station in One Change from Westbury or Bath, But I would need to travel with 2 different TOC's ;)

Possibly, but I think I can see an electrifcation mast on the overbridge (or perhaps it is just a lampost)

3 is Sherborne.

I must challenge the assertion that you need to travel with 2 different TOCs to get there from Westbury or Bath. South West Trains BTH/WSB-SAL then SAL-SHE.  ;)

3 is indeed Sherborne ;D

And I feel like a complete pillock now because I catch the one of the 4 return journey's operated by SWT at least 3 times a week...!

Just as an aside they were doing Catering on one of the services the other day as a trial run... Anyone know how it went...?

Shame they don't offer complimentary cups of tea to passengers in FC on SWT (Except the early weekday morning London bound Trains) Ah well... I guess when in Bath and catching the 22:38 I shall just have to resort to continuing to buy 89p cups of tea from the McDonalds just round the corner... :-\

(Not that i'm complaining... 89p for a big large cuppa in Bath is a bluddy good price ;) ;D )

...even if the service in that McD's generally has all the warmth of winter sunlight glinting off a coffin lid. Or maybe I've just been unlucky.

Some of the staff there are ok... and the Free WiFi is a win (i'd rather get laptop out in McD's than in Bath Spa at the time of night but preferably not at all!!!) But some staff go out of their way to make things awkward for you or just be really rude... generally if I do that I like to be the pillock who pays for an 89p Cuppa on a debit card... or a ^20 note always goes down well...!! ::) ;D :P (opps did I say that out loud... :P )

No 3 had me fooled I always associate LSWR stations as being built of red brick not stone. Maybe it's because I know the ones around Southampton best where everything is red brick.