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« on: May 23, 2012, 20:01:06 »
We're on our holidays, but having trouble remembering where we took these snaps.   Can you help us?   Thanks



















(We do notice that the trains around here are a different colour  Cheesy )
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2012, 20:10:39 »
8. Dovey Junction
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2012, 20:16:23 »
Any rules re number of guesses?  Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2012, 20:21:37 »
Quote from: bignosemac on May 23, 2012, 20:10:39
8. Dovey Junction

Yes - and if anyone needed it, that will more or less set the area..

Quote from: Devon Big Bird on May 23, 2012, 20:16:23
Any rules re number of guesses?  Cheesy

Nope - I haven't set any. As many or as few as you like!
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2012, 20:26:23 »
Well, as you say that does indeed rather set the area. West/North Wales

Have you had any trips on some of the narrow gauge stuff in that neck of the woods?

I'll hazard a guess that 4. is Barmouth Bridge. More specifically the point at where part of it used to swing.
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2012, 20:28:05 »
sets himself up for a fall

2. Aberystwyth
3. Ditto vernacular railway?
4. as 3?
5. Borth?
7. Porthmadog?
9. Conwy / Stevenson's Bridge?

Any luck on these?  Huh
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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2012, 20:29:24 »
No, 5 isn't Borth (I did the honourable thing of posting before checking Google Maps!)  Cheesy
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2012, 20:34:11 »
Quote from: Devon Big Bird on May 23, 2012, 20:28:05
vernacular railway?

Wos one of them then?

Surely funicular is the correct vernacular?

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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2012, 20:37:06 »
Ha Ha, been a long day and couldn't be arsenaled to check! Yes, in Wales, it's the vernacular.  Grin
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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2012, 20:39:16 »
2. Correct - Aberystwyth (Devon Big Bird)
4. Correct - Barmouth Bridge (BigNoseMac)
8. Correct - Dovey Junction (BigNoseMac)

Other guesses are incorrect - sorry!
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« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2012, 20:40:22 »
5 Morfa Mawddach
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« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2012, 21:09:21 »
Photo 1 looks like the flooring on a refurbished ATW▸ (Arriva Trains Wales (former Train Operating Company)) class 158
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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2012, 21:27:29 »
1. Correct - flooring on an ATW▸ (Arriva Trains Wales (former Train Operating Company)) class 158 (anthony215)  (funny, I thought it was a picture of two dogs!)
5. Correct - Morfa Mawddach (Worcester_Passenger)

3, 6, 7 and 9 to go.
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« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2012, 20:06:38 »
7 Corris Steam Railway at .....er Corris Grin
9 Viaduct over the A470 between Pont-y-Pant and Betws-y-Coed
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« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2012, 20:58:37 »
Correct on 7 - The Corris at Corris (SandTEngineer)

Incorrect on 9, though. 

Clue - we've not been north of Barmouth, nor down to South Wales.
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