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« on: March 06, 2023, 11:33:38 »
No clues to start with. You lot are too good.
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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2023, 13:18:02 »
That looks like the stone blocks that supported the edge rails of a 19th century tramroad, and the location looks very like a site in the South Gloucestershire coalfield that I visited a few years ago.  But I may be completely wrong.
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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2023, 13:22:04 »
Yes. Are we somewhere in the vacinity of the Dramway, Coalpit Heath?
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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2023, 13:47:04 »
Quote from: PrestburyRoad on March 06, 2023, 13:18:02
That looks like the stone blocks that supported the edge rails of a 19th century tramroad, and the location looks very like a site in the South Gloucestershire coalfield that I visited a few years ago.  But I may be completely wrong.

It does, doesn't it? But it isn't. The stone blocks used to support a platform edge.

'Coalfield' is warm though.

Quote from: JayMac on March 06, 2023, 13:22:04
Yes. Are we somewhere in the vacinity of the Dramway, Coalpit Heath?

I think it would be unhelpful of me to describe this as being 'in the vicinity' of Coalpit Heath. Not too far away though. 
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« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2023, 09:29:05 »
It isn't anywhere I recognise, but given the clues, perhaps somewhere along the Westerleigh branch line?
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« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2023, 10:12:10 »
Wrong side of Bristol, Frome froome (bit of a Freudian slip there maybe?)
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« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2023, 12:18:29 »
I momentarily had in mind the Radstock to Frome railway path but the absence of in-situ railway lines makes me question this now.
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« Reply #7 on: March 07, 2023, 12:59:40 »
Clutton.
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« Reply #8 on: March 07, 2023, 14:31:58 »
Quote from: stuving on March 07, 2023, 12:59:40
Clutton.

He's good, that stuving!

It is indeed the site of Clutton station. There's a sort of linear park running north from Station Road towards Fry's Bottom (oops sorry Stephen!) which we used as the basis of a nice circular walk via Cuckoo Lane and Greyfield Wood, finishing (appropriately) with a pint of Frome 'The Usual' in the Railway Inn.
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