Great Western Coffee Shop

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Number 4 is Bristol Temple Meads!   ;D

6.  Chippenham.

2. Frome
8. Brokenhurst

2 - Frome
4 - Bristol Temple Meads
8 - Brockenhurst

are all correct

6 is NOT Chippenham, but you're not far away there  ;)

Damn!  Melksham, then?   ;)

Nope ... sorry; I carefully didn't say that you were "on the right line" because there are no through services from Chippenham to where I took the picture.  Give clues wildly, as otherwise you're just going to have lots more guesses!

My third (and final) attempt, then:  Kemble.  ::)

1. Bath Queen Square

7 is Bath Spa. Graham, have to hand it to you this is a good one for the Lighter Side.

No. 1 is indeed Bath .. but "Queen Square"?  Is there / was there such a station?
No. 7 isn't anywhere in Bath - but it's just one stop from there to where I did take the picture.
And - I'm sorry - no. 6 isn't Kemble; there are through services from Chippenham to Kemble at 07:30 and 20:02 , returning at 05:51 and 18:25, so it doesn't fit the clue.

Some of these are good hard ones, I'm afraid.  ;)

I think bignosemac means Green Park?

I suspect he might, as it's the correct answer  ;) ... all these pictures taken this month, by the way - yesterday was a nostalgic trip to ride the "slammers", which is why there's a Brockehurst in the mix - and it did give me a good chance to see some more community rail in practise, the real sense of ownership of the line from both staff and customers.

bignosemac did mean Bath Queen Square. The name was changed by British Railways in 1954 to Bath Green Park. The station with it's wrought iron vaulted roof was built by the Midland Railway in 1870, so it had its original name for 84 years and it's 'new' name only applied to an operational station for 12 years.

 ;)

Ah - you must be older than me - I don't remember those days.  :D   .  Thank you for the historic note - I'm delighted to go on learning every day and to confirm the answer as "Bath Green Park, formerly known - and known for much longer - as Bath, Queen Square"

Interestingly, Queen Square itself is a couple of hundred yards from the station building, up Charles Street and Chapel Row. Was there some other renaming of squares going on too, or has Queen Square always been a bit of a way from the station that we're talking about?

Sorry to disappoint, but I'm probably younger than you grahame!

No great knowledge on my part - just information gleaned from Wikipedia. And a suspicion (now proved) that my amswering Bath Queen Square would provoke debate.  ;D

No 5 has a Brunel design of roof so I'll go Bridgewater.

You're not far out ... I'm going to be in the most terrible trouble with CfN when he find out that it's Xxxxxxx ...

Hmm.

If "all these pictures were taken this month", I would (yet again) have been standing right next to grahame when he took that one.

 :o ::) ;D

Let's go for Zero out of 4,

3 Westbury.

5 Highbridge.

6 Southampton.

7 Chippenham.

5.  Taunton.   ::)

I think your right...

Bonus Points for saying it's the skylight in the Gent's Loo's on Platform 2...??

If it is, I wasn't standing right next to grahame when he took that picture!  :o ;D

It is indeed.  Spot on.  That is indeed a bonus point (and a lot of people wondering how long we spend looking aroung such places!)

Hanging around and taking photos in station Gents toilets can get you into all sorts of trouble. (Unless you are compiling 'Stations Made Easy' stats for NRE)  ;) :D ;D

Thanks, bignosemac!

That's exactly why I wanted to 'distance' myself from that particular photo location - I don't work for NRE!  ;D

Did grahame say he was just popping in there to whip his 'Canon' out?  :P ;) ;D

3 is, indeed, Westbury.   And 7 is indeed Chippenham.   My goodness - you do a lot of looking up.   5 isn't Highbridge and is discussed above  :o

Which leaves just 6.   And there's no way without the earlier clues that you could guess that.  "Near Chippenham, no though services from Chippenham" ... it's actually Avoncliff or (as some of the announcements seem to say Avon Cliff!)

Thanks for resolving 6, grahame!  ;D

I was working on the basis of where you might have seen a low-flying RAF Hercules - hence my increasingly desperate attempts to locate a railway station within 'final approach' of Lyneham!  ::)

I thought "should I put this up - it's almost impossible" with number 6 ... and I was very impressed when you got as close as Chippenham.   We have "Herc"s flying over here (West Wilts) frequently, it seems; I think they do a circuit which includes Lyneham and "touch and go" training dropping off loads on the runway without even putting their full weight down at Keevil.   I'm not at Avoncliff for very long all that often - though it is one of the dog's favourite stations (gets greeted by a nice lady or gentleman at the door when she gets on, which doesn't happen at other places!)

So I got 2 out of 4, heck that's not like me, I prefer to get NONE, cause you can only go higher if you get none.