Great Western Coffee Shop

As usual easy ones for you :)

Pic 1: Where is it taken? (EASY) Who did it/when? (I don't know either be interesting if anyone does)
Pic 2: Somewhat outside the FGW area..
Pic 3: Is in the FGW area :P
Pic 4: Is definitely in the FGW area

1. Paddington Station.  Painted by Rupert Farquhar-Pemberton, as part of his community payback, July 2001.

That was quick.

Goes to show that community payback can be done on stations :P

No 3 Brighton
No 4 Slough relief platforms turbo UP train and is on Plat 5

Yeah, just spotted I missed a bit to edit out. But I think you would have got it anyway :)

Pic 5: Still in FGW area.

5.  No idea where it is - but isn't there a certain irony, having an apparently trashed TVM, right next to a penalty fares notice?  ::)

5 looks very Twyfordish to me

Correct it's Twyford. This was taken the evening after the mass TVM attacks. There are usually 2 TVM's in this area.

Is 2 Motherwell?

4 is indeed Slough - sorry didn't see you had answered it.
2 is not Motherwell. It's not that far from Glasgow though - as a clue I have posted about going to this part of Scotland in the past :)

Is 2 Exhibition Centre (Glasgow)?

I saw this being painted and commented at the time as to why they were obviously a B1 and another LNER loco on a GWR station.

Where's the tapered boiler and Belpaire firebox of most GW engines?

I also pionted out a howler in the FGW pasenger magazine where they used clip art of a "Southern" pacific. No not a MN or WC/BB which would have been bad enough, although their boiler would outsteam a King, but Southern USA.

No but trains do go from Exhibition Centre to this particular station, and would then terminate.

Edit: because I confused myself =P

Balloch?

That's the one :)

Same to you!  ;) ;D

I think Dalmuir is the station where Exhibtion Centre trains terminate, but I am not convinced that is what is in the photo.  I don;t recall those colour bricks at Dalmuir.  I thought that the ticket office there was a  "Portacabin".  Dalmuir woudl also be a funny place to travel to unless you were visiting someone who lived there.

....The terminus at the other end of the line is Lanark which is my new guess.  Lanack seems more of a distination for a visitor/tourist (I am assuming that is what Ollie was?) with the Falls of Clyde and the Mill etc at New Lanark.

It was over 10 years since I was there and again I don;t remember the modern brickwork as in your photo but perhaps I wasn't paying attention.