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Thought it was about time I did one of these. These are photos, which happen to contain transport, of travels in the last 4 years (since I went digital).

Not sure how hard/easy it will be. None are in FGW area. Some are close, other not so.

Usual rules please, etc.

One clue: none of the pictures are Melksham (sorry!)

Here is 1 to 4 of 16!

Number 4 looks a bit like Pickering to me ???

3. Crossing the Usk near Newport?

No 4 Correct.

No 3 Wrong, but warm.

I cry foul - anywhere warm to newport is FGW area even if not stations operated by FGW

Depends on my definition of warm! ;D

Are we crossing a river in Wales?

1 is bugging me because I'm sure I've been there but I can't place it. I think, putting together the mark I, the semaphore and the camping coach that it's on a heritage line somewhere. I was thinking maybe the WSR but the maroon stock has put me off that idea.

NYMR definitelty has camping coaches at Goathland, which would fit with the Pickering photo. Only problem is that the photo definitely isn't Goathland. But it just might be Levisham...

Hang on, I've just realised that No. 3 may be misleading. The picture was not taken onboard a train, nor from a bridge.

However, River and Wales are correct.

No. 1 is not Levisham.

Let's have some clues (cryptic if you like) for the three remaining unguessed before you post more!  :P :D

Ok, 1 is in Shropshire, 2 is in Cardiff and 3 is in Sardinia.

The 2nd pic is in Cardiff? Methinks you got 'em the wrong way round....

No, it's the new Welsh Assembly airport shuttle - every 15 mins with a restaurant. :P

Yes - reverse them! (and it hasn't even been "one of those days!") ::) ::)

Btline. Can I ask that you don't post such witty rejoinders for me to read just as I'm inhaling from my cigarette. I very nearly coughed up a lung. <giggle, cough, splutter>

Now, where did I put those screen wipes?  ;D

OK, so number 1 is most likely on the Severn Valley Railway then...so if it's in Shropshire that would make it Highley or Hampton Loade (pretty sure it's not Bridgnorth, and the rest of the stations on the line aren't in Shropshire).

Hampton Loade?

Yes, Hampton Loade. Suppose the clue gave it away, but I couldn't think of a better one, let alone a cryptic!

For number 3 - one of the Train Verde with a guess you travelled in the North of the Island and the picture was taken somewhere between Nulvi and Palua.

Near enough!

Photo is the Old Time Train to Gallura, from Arzachena to Tempio Pausania at the half way stop at the Lake Liscia.

Now just the near Cardiff photo to sort out!

Is the Cardiff photo somewhere near Cardiff Bay, I know there is water down there  :D

Are we sure it's definitely Cardiff? It almost looks like the view from the right-hand side of a train heading into Swansea from the east, as you cross over the Towy with the White Rock stadium on the left. Although that wouldn't really qualify as outside FGW territory in my book.

Indeed it is taken from a flat in Cardiff Bay, the line is the one to Penarth.

Here's the next four:

The third one looks like a northern mill town. Huddersfield?

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No 8 must be Wimbledon!

Is the first pic (labelled as number 2) Kidderminster SVR?

Southfields.   :D  

In true railway tradition, Wimbledon and Wimbledon Park are not near the tennis...  :o

Paul

Kidderminster and Southfields correct. Glad to see someone fell into the Wimbledon trap (why I blacked out the TfL signs and advert).

PS: The reason the pics are labelled differently, is that I've changed the order I've uploaded them (to avoid having two SVR pics in one bloc).

No.5 looks vaguely Italian but I don't really have the first clue where it might be.

The viaduct to the right of number 6 is making me start to wonder if it might be Durham although that's a bit of a long shot - think I can see OLE on the bridge though. Which might make it somewhere in the Aire Valley if I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Durham correct - taken from the cathedral tower.

But not Italy.

No5 is Istanbul.

Here are the next 4.

No 11 Gare du Nord

Paul

I think number 10 might be Gare de Nord as well (from the opposeite direction)

No 12 Bamber Bridge?

Gurd du Nord correct for No 11 only.

No 12 wrong.

10  Gare de l'Est from Rue d'Alsace?

Correct. Just the other two now.

Clue: The train in No12 has come from Newcastle Central. There is a castle a few miles away.

12. That'd be Prudhoe then!

Correct. Was that clue making it too easy? I thought many stations on lines around Newcastle had castles nearby! The actual destination nameplate of the train reads Hexham - but I thought this would make it way too easy.

Clue: The other picture has a wear nearby.

Wos a 'wear'? :)

It's a river in't north east - goes through Barnard Castle and other places, innit? Although I suppose strictly speaking that's a Wear rather than a wear. Then again in Barny there is also, if my memory serves me correctly, a weir on the Wear. With dippers.

Canny man. I divvent nah wot btline wuz talkin aboot.  ;D

I still don't. There's a very strong chance that it is actually a weir, rather than the Wear, being referred to!  ???

Hmm, my clue kind of failed. Basically, the thing I wanted to communucate is that there is both a Wear and a weir near the remaining photo. I thought that putting Wear as "wear" might work (sorry TJ). But it didn't.

Suppose it explains why I failed to get a job with The Times crossword department... :P

Ok, the final picutre was another of Durham. This time the station, again taken from the cathedral. Here are the FINAL 4 pics.

14. Newcastle upon Tyne.  I think.  (Well, it ain't Taunton, that's for sure!)  ;D

13. Wallsend. Tyne & Wear Metro station - with its station signs in English and Latin.

There is (or were) station posters of local facilities and businesses with their pictures digitally enhanced to show the business/service name in Latin. For instance a picture of the JobCentre has the translation, 'Forum Venalicium' (lit. 'slave market').

Both are correct. Clue for final pics - taken in the same place, language spoken is Spanish.

Que?

Answer: final pictures are Palma and Soller. Both in Majorca.

The end!