Bumper bignosemac Prize Picture Quiz, August 2012. *QUIZ CLOSED*

[whole diary]

[The Tall Controller]

Aargh! 19/20! So close yet so far!

[JayMac]

Pretty sure mine is lowest out of everyone (feel free to post it)

Annoyingly, looking at pictures again with the answers, things stand out and make me feel like an idiot for not realising at the time!

As you wish Ollie!  

1. Mind blank, but I think it's an SWT^▸ (South West Trains) station
3. Bracknell (Extra points that you're standing on the Waterloo bound platform)
4. Swindon
13. Brighton
15. Reading looking at Platform 4 and 5
16. Bristol Parkway?
20. Blanaeu Ffestiniog

5/20

And you were right about your score. I can send you a wooden spoon if you like.  

[Chris from Nailsea]

I rather think you'll see two reasons why you should kick yourself for not getting number 9, Ollie ...  

[JayMac]

Aargh! 19/20! So close yet so far!

Yes indeed. Hard lines Rob T. A commendable effort just pipped by bobm.  

[Ollie]

I rather think you'll see two reasons why you should kick yourself for not getting number 9, Ollie ...  

1. I've been there
2. You're on the platform?

I should have got Falmouth too, as we both went there.

also should have got Slough cos of the Blue building on right of the pic!

Newport should have got as been a few times, I feel so silly

[Chris from Nailsea]

Don't worry, Ollie: I would have got very few right myself, if I'd been eligible to enter - and even having seen all of the correct answers, there are still a lot I would never have got!

The standard of entries overall was very high: we had a winner with all 20 right, a runner up with 19 - and two others with 18 each, out of a total of 12 entries!  Having set up a very robust tie-break procedure, thinking it surely wouldn't be used, we actually came very close to having to do so! 

[ReWind]

An idea for the next quiz could be something along the lines of charge ^1 for entry.

Therefore BNM doesn't have to pay for the prize out of his own pocket and also the more people that enter, the higher the prize!

[bobm]

Well having basked in my 15 minutes of fame I'd just like to say my bit.

With or without the prize I'd like to see more of these types of quizzes rather than the "everyone have one guess in 24 hours" type.  I enjoyed having the time to research the ones I didn't immediately know.  A couple I thought I had worked out only to remember that the location I had guessed didn't have third rail or overhead etc so had to delve some more.  The hardest one for me was Liskeard - didn't recognise it in the mist and fog!

On a wider point I enjoy the community we have here on the coffeeshop.  I have learned things, I have been to places I have read about on here, I've saved money because of tips gleaned on here, I have met new friends both on and off line and on the odd occasion I hope I have added something to the debate.

Sounds like an Oscar acceptance speech - didn't mean it that way, but heres to more lively informed debate and more quizzes, although I promised Bignosemac I'll recuse myself from the next prize one!

[devon_metro]

Liskeard!! I spent ages attempting to place it, to no avail - and i've been there!

[JayMac]

An idea for the next quiz could be something along the lines of charge ^1 for entry.

Therefore BNM doesn't have to pay for the prize out of his own pocket and also the more people that enter, the higher the prize!

It's enough of a business setting up, running and keeping track without asking for an entry fee as well. Charging would mean bank transfers which would mean responsibility for more personal information. A couple further legal aspects that I'd rather not deal with.

The odd tenner or more a few times of year is no biggie for bignosemac, particularly as he now has gainful regular employment. 

[Phil]

Well done, and very well said bobm. I think there's a few of us who wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments, even if we don't have the required tenacity to complete the quiz

[smokey]

Well I knew I didn't have 20 right as I didn't have a Scooby Doo where number 3 was. Other than on the Southern, I did wonder if it was a SWT^▸ (South West Trains) unit but not on a SWT served line.

IIRC^▸ ('if I recall/remember/read correctly') I got number 1 wrong,

6 threw me for a while as it's NEVER misty at Liskeard only ever Dry or Raining.

Would BNM confirm my Score please.

[grahame]

What a HUGE success!  

Many thanks, BNM for taking this quiz all the way through from inspiration to completions, and to all those people who took part and sent in entries.  And I know there were many others who spent many hours pouring over pictures and trying to identify where the pictures were taken.

[JayMac]

Well I knew I didn't have 20 right as I didn't have a Scooby Doo where number 3 was. Other than on the Southern, I did wonder if it was a SWT^▸ (South West Trains) unit but not on a SWT served line.

IIRC^▸ ('if I recall/remember/read correctly') I got number 1 wrong,

6 threw me for a while as it's NEVER misty at Liskeard only ever Dry or Raining.

Would BNM confirm my Score please.

Of course.

Right Here goes, my Answers are.

  1 Salisbury
  2 Lydney Town  (Forest of Dean Railway)
  3 I Give up
  4 Swindon
  5 Hoveton & Wroxham
  6 Liskeard
  7 Banbury
  8 Paignton
  9 Nailsea & Backwell
10 Norwich
11 Penzance
12 Severn Beach
13 Brighton
14 Falmouth Docks
15 Reading
16 Newport (South Wales)
17 Stourbridge Junction
18 Oxford
19 Bishops Lydeard(West Somerset Railway)
20 Blaenau Ffestiniog

Well that's Smokey's best effort

18/20

An excellent effort which tied for third place. 

[The Tall Controller]

I must say I had great fun trying to locate 2 and 5! More frustration for others! As a Cornish boy, Liskeard was one of the easy ones!