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Title: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 14, 2011, 22:51:30 I'm always struck by the great railway photography tradition of taking pictures of the front of trains, with the train sliding diagonally across the picture into the distance. I recall going to a 150th anniversary celebration of a station (I won't tell you which one) and sitting through 90 minutes of slides, 90% of which were in that genre and not even of the station that we were celebrating (but I admit it was good to see the tadpoles again!).
So ... in the interval between campaigns and serious topics, I'm replacing the pictures at the head of the coffee shop with a set of pictures ... all of which I have taken in the last 4 weeks. They're places as well as railway stuff, but none of them is far from a railway or railway interest, and they're pretty random - but you'll find less 'classic' pictures that usual and more oddballs and you may be able to work out some of the places. Why places? Because people use trains to get to places ... the TransWilts survey of 1600 people found that 1500 would use the service from time to time at the weekend ... for shopping (so I have some shop pictures), for going away on trips (so you have some trip pictures) and for going to the seaside (you'll not find any pictures of me on the beach; it's winter and I'm not completely mad!) And of course "random" does not mean evenly spread ... no apologies for more pictures of old stomping grounds, no apologies for nighttime pictures of trains at Melksham, and no apologies for pictures way out of FGW land. This railway isn't an isolated engineering wonder - it's a way of getting from A to B, and connecting with other bits of public transport to C and D (and even G and H). Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 21, 2011, 11:57:04 Can you place any of the pictures? ... I'll start with a sprinkling of 10 ...
05. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_05.jpg) 15. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_15.jpg) 25. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_25.jpg) 35. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_35.jpg) 45. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_45.jpg) 55. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_55.jpg) 65. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_65.jpg) 75. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_75.jpg) 85. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_85.jpg) 95. (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_95.jpg) (Some of these are trivial ... and others float between "impractical" and "impossible") Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: Mookiemoo on March 21, 2011, 12:09:15 I meant 25! Same error as last time Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 21, 2011, 12:11:28 I meant 25! Same error as last time I was just about to say .... :D Indeed ... 25 is Temple Meads. 15 will be almost impossible to guess and I'll be gobsmacked if anyone does! Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: JayMac on March 21, 2011, 12:30:24 Gonna take a stab at 15. The former Chippenham to Calne line?
Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: Phil Farmer on March 21, 2011, 13:43:45 65 - Wootton Bassett ?
Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: Tim on March 21, 2011, 13:51:15 95 = Koln?
Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 21, 2011, 14:15:14 95 = Koln? Good grief - yes. Do you know the guy? 65 - Wootton Bassett ? Yes Gonna take a stab at 15. The former Chippenham to Calne line? Sorry - 15 is Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on March 21, 2011, 14:46:55 15- ash priors common nr bishops lydeard (my guesses are getting silly now)
Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: Tim on March 21, 2011, 15:29:21 Just a very lucky guess. I have never been to Koln - my German experience is mainly of Munich, but the photo looks like it is of a sub level of an S-Bahn system (the level between the track and street).
I was going to guess Munich but it doesn't seem Bavarian enough despite the blue and white tiles (no Beer pumps at the counter for a start). It doesn't look like the parts of Berlin I have been to and then recalled that you had travelled though Koln and that it has a 1970s/1980s S-Bahn system of a similar vintage as Munich's. A wild guess for 85 (in case I am on a roll) would be Dusseldorf (or somewhere else reached by a regional train from Koln) Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: Chris from Nailsea on March 21, 2011, 16:39:14 55. Melksham. ::) ;D
Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 21, 2011, 17:09:33 A wild guess for 85 (in case I am on a roll) would be Dusseldorf (or somewhere else reached by a regional train from Koln) Oh my goodness ... yes. It is Dusseldorf. And, yes, 55 is Melksham! Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: inspector_blakey on March 21, 2011, 18:42:31 A wild guess for 85 (in case I am on a roll) would be Dusseldorf (or somewhere else reached by a regional train from Koln) Oh my goodness ... yes. It is Dusseldorf. Impressive! I was going to guess Elsterwerda based solely on the grounds that it's the only place I've ever changed trains in Germany, and we got from one red Regio train onto another... Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: johoare on March 21, 2011, 22:13:17 45 looks a little like Edgware road.. But I'm not 100% convinced?
Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 22, 2011, 06:21:06 45 looks a little like Edgware road.. But I'm not 100% convinced? You're right not to be convinced, but you're on the right lines. Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: johoare on March 22, 2011, 20:32:36 45 looks a little like Edgware road.. But I'm not 100% convinced? You're right not to be convinced, but you're on the right lines. I thought it looked to bright to be Edgware road.. I'll have another think... Along the same lines ::) Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: Electric train on March 22, 2011, 21:56:47 45 looks a little like Edgware road.. But I'm not 100% convinced? You're right not to be convinced, but you're on the right lines. I thought it looked to bright to be Edgware road.. I'll have another think... Along the same lines ::) Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 22, 2011, 22:24:45 45 are the "hot n cold" platforms 15 / 16 at Paddington (hot n cold = Hamersmith & City) Yes, that's right. Still a few to go ... Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: eightf48544 on March 22, 2011, 22:30:42 Tim was lucky as you get double deck REs from Aachen to Frankfurt am Oder and Rostock to Saarbrucken.
If you are really up on German rolling stock there are several types of DD push pull sets which tend work certain services, but that still means they will serve a large number of stations. Have changed at Esterwerde, Seem to remember a long open platform and not as busy. It's the cheapest way for a group from Dresden to Berlin. 2 Lander tickets at E28 each for up to 5 so 11.20 each as opposed to E35 each on the EC. Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: paul7575 on March 22, 2011, 22:31:42 Paddington H&C, a bit different of course since a lot of the junk down the middle was removed.
Which reminds me - this 'youtube' video cropped up in the 'london reconnections' blog the other day, some regular travellers might recognise themselves by the colour of their hat... ;D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUQsX_sUjcA Once you see how the two sections of the drawing relate to each other it gives a good idea how it will all work... Paul Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: johoare on March 22, 2011, 23:10:34 45 are the "hot n cold" platforms 15 / 16 at Paddington (hot n cold = Hamersmith & City) Yes, that's right. Still a few to go ... Hhm I wondered about that but then also discounted it as it looked to bright to be there too..It looks somewhere quite modern on the picture ;D Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on March 23, 2011, 05:08:24 Hhm I wondered about that but then also discounted it as it looked to bright to be there too..It looks somewhere quite modern on the picture ;D Looking at "modern", I checked the age of trains shown and discover that they date from 1969 and 1977 ... which makes them older that the Turbo fleet. They are to be replaced over the next 2 years with new stock - the C series being replaced by the S series - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_S_Stock . Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: Btline on August 04, 2011, 16:43:58 What's the picture with the axed trees? It looked a bit like something I'd seen before, but that's well out of the FGW region...
Title: Re: Pictures for passengers rather than pictures of trains Post by: grahame on August 04, 2011, 17:11:33 What's the picture with the axed trees? It looked a bit like something I'd seen before, but that's well out of the FGW region... This one? (http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/s3/s3_72.jpg) Our local supermarket clearing out a few "seedlings and shrubs" before the extended. A few of the current series of pictures reflect the wider life of passengers who travel on trains in these parts ... This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |