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.... and explain how the precise location is relevant to rail:  |
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JayMac
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2012, 01:18:21 » |
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Not Bath. Sorry.
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2012, 01:22:47 » |
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Sorry: I suggested 'Bath' but the picture changed in the meantime, so I removed my post.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2012, 01:39:26 » |
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Apologies. Same location, just a different angle.
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2012, 01:44:45 » |
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Accepted. Yes, the different angle now suggests something more on the lines of London ... maybe?  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2012, 01:48:17 » |
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Warm.... but that London is a big place...
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2012, 01:58:32 » |
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I do have a better idea of the specific location ... but I've had two goes already ...  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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I seem to remember that there's somewhere on the Circle Line west of Paddington, in the Bayswater area, where the builders of the railway ended up constructing a dummy facade that continued the line of the terrace and hid their nasty new railway line. From the blank windows, this looks as if it might be it. But I can't quote a street name.
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2012, 08:43:36 » |
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Leinster Gardens.
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2012, 19:07:15 » |
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Well done TJ. It is indeed 23-24 Leinster Gardens, London, W2. On the Distict (Edgware Road Branch) and Circle Lines between Paddington and Bayswater stations. Well done W_P for the explanation as well. Here's a couple of pics of the rear of the 'property':   |
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2012, 19:45:03 » |
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Well done TJ. I must go and look next time I'm waiting for the infrequent afternoon service back home.
Does the picture of the back of the 'property' mean that there's an ordinary bridge at the next street - or is that taken out of somebody's back kitchen window?
That's a scary set of props holding the retaining walls apart.
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« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2012, 19:56:27 » |
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There's a high wall in Porchester Terrace at the rear, over another tunnel portal. Just low enough to hold my camera above my head and take the shots of the rear of 23-24 Leinster Gardens. Google Streetview. |
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
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« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2012, 03:45:31 » |
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Wasn't this also used for the LU Steam Engines to empty their "Smoke Tanks"?? Seem to recall watching that somewhere on a rail documentary with Mark Williams. (For those of you not in the know, Mark Williams played Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter Films and is also a Rail Enthusiast)
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