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Title: Which station was I near?
Post by: grahame on March 02, 2010, 20:19:12
Spring is come,
It's time to travel again.
Let's have some fun ...
Can you tell me where and when

(With apologies to all poets, living and dead)

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/nearto_1.jpg)

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/nearto_2.jpg)

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/nearto_3.jpg)

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/nearto_4.jpg)


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: JayMac on March 02, 2010, 20:32:24
Wartminster?


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 02, 2010, 20:34:52
The details shown in photo 4 are clearly Warminster.   :)


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: grahame on March 02, 2010, 21:11:19
Wartminster?

A bit too much T, but otherwise correctt.


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 02, 2010, 22:47:56
Thanks, grahame!  ;D

As a matter of interest, where was photo 2 taken?  It has some suggestion of being an old canal route about it - but there wasn't a canal at Warminster, so I'm rather puzzled.  :-[


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: JayMac on March 02, 2010, 22:59:08
And apologies for my typo..... not meant as a slight on the fine town of Warminster. ;D


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: Trowres on March 02, 2010, 23:55:23
Chippenham
Avoncliff
Melksham?
Warminster


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: grahame on March 03, 2010, 05:45:27
Chippenham
Avoncliff
Melksham?
Warminster

Chippenham - YES
Avoncliff - YES
Melksham? - NO
Warminster - YES

Well done there - it's surprising just how much more difficult it is to identify pictures when they're taken even a short distance from the station.  The Warminster picture was taken on Monday, just outside the station.  Avoncilff and Chippenham were taken within a couple of hundred yards of the station - the History Centre in Chippehnam, and under the Avoncliff Aquaduct on the Kennet and Avon Canal - both yesterday.  The remaining picture was also taken yesterday, and close by a station.


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: Timmer on March 03, 2010, 06:03:24
Freshford?


Title: Re: Which station was I near?
Post by: grahame on March 03, 2010, 07:01:46
Freshford?

Yes - that's correct.

Here's a picture that might have made it rather easier

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/freshford_1.jpg)

and it was good to see a station in fine condition and with useful information about the area on a notice on the platform, in a place where people who are just arriving for the first time will spot it.

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/freshford_2.jpg)




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