Christmas Bumper bignosemac Prize Picture Quiz. December 2012 *CLOSED*

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[Chris from Nailsea]

There is still time for you to submit your answers to this prize quiz in a personal message to bignosemac on this forum - but the deadline is approaching, so please don't leave it too late! 

[grahame]

Registration form - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=register
Prize quiz - http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=11647

Final day for the quiz ... if any new members sign up for the forum before 5 p.m., I'll make sure that your requests are processed before 7 p.m. - plenty of time to get your answers in to BMN before a minute to midnight!

[Chris from Nailsea]

We are now very rapidly running out of time for you to submit your entries to bignosemac by personal message - so, please, do hurry up if you're still putting the finishing touches to your final offering! 

[Chris from Nailsea]

Well, the competition has now closed, and we have received some excellent entries: thank you to everyone who submitted their answers - and thanks also to those of you who merely considered entering - please do so, next time!

I have not yet been given details of the identities of the winners - bignosemac has been particularly strict on maintaining the anonymity of entries! - but I have seen the answers to the quiz.

Wow!  It was clearly a very difficult quiz - as we intended!  I can say that there was more than one answer suggested for every one of those 25 pictures - some with several people giving the same location, but with other quite similar and plausible places being mentioned too!

I'll leave bignosemac to announce the actual winners, but in the meantime I'd like to take this opportunity to thank him for all his hard work behind the scenes in organizing this quiz.

Chris from Nailsea. 

[JayMac]

Thanks Chris.

Yes, the quiz is now closed. I shall be checking and collating the entries over the next day or two. Once that is done I will publish the answers here in this thread, announce the winner and runners-up and unlock the thread for feedback and chat on the quiz.

Thanks to all who took part and Happy New Year!

[JayMac]

The answers:

1 St Erth
2 Queen's Park
3 Paignton (will suffice as answer, although picture is of gate leading to the Dartmouth Steam Railway station)
4 Wolverhampton
5 Salisbury
6 Gloucester
7 Pershore
8 Wroxham (Bure Valley Railway)
9 Bristol Temple Meads
10 Dawlish
11 London Paddington
12 Cardiff Queen Street
13 Weston-super-Mare
14 Shanklin
15 Yeovil Junction
16 Exeter Central
17 Greenford
18 Norwich
19 Blackpool North
20 Frome
21 Dorchester West
22 Brockenhurst
23 Greenwich (DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway)) (Greenwich will suffice)
24 St Ives
25 Bath Spa

[JayMac]

The winning entry was from brooklea, who got an impressive 23/25 correct:

1.St Erth
2.Queens Park
3.Paignton
4.Wolverhampton
5.Salisbury
6.Weymouth 
7.Godalming (complete shot in the dark)
8.Wroxham, Bure Valley Railway
9.Bristol Temple Meads
10.Dawlish
11.Paddington Underground Station - Hammersmith & City Line entrance
12.Cardiff Queen Street
13.Weston-super-Mare
14.Shanklin
15.Yeovil Junction
16.Exeter Central
17.Greenford
18.Norwich
19.Blackpool North
20.Frome
21.Dorchester West
22.Brockenhurst
23.Greenwich DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway) platforms
24.St Ives
25.Bath Spa

brooklea wins the 1st prize of a ^20 National Book Token.

The runners-up were bobm (21/25) and Southern Stag (16/25)

1) St Erth
2) Queens Park
3) Paignton (Queens Park) looking towards the NR^» (Network Rail - home page) station
4) No idea!
5) Salisbury
6) Gloucester
7) Pershore
8  Wroxham (Bure Valley)
9) Bristol Temple Meads
10) Dawlish
11) Paddington (H&C)
12) Cardiff Queen Street
13) Weston Super Mare
14) Shanklin
15) Yeovil Junction
16) Exeter Central
17) Greenford
18) Ipswich?
19) London Liverpool Street?
20) Frome
21) Dorchester West
22) Brockenhurst
23) Canning Town?
24) St Ives
25) Bath Spa?

1. St Erth
2. Queen's Park
3. Paignton
4. Wolverhampton
5. Salisbury
6.
7.
8.
9. Bristol Temple Meads
10. Dawlish
11. Stratford
12. Cardiff Queen Street
13. Teignmouth
14. Seaford
15. Basingstoke
16. Exeter Central
17. Greenford
18. Norwich
19. Gatwick Airport
20. Frome
21. Dorchester West
22. Brockenhurst
23. Greenwich
24. St Ives
25.

bobm and Southern Stag each win a ^10 National Book Token.


Personal Messages have been sent to the winner and runners-up.

If anyone else who entered wishes to know their score and have it published then please reply in this topic.

Again, thanks to all who took part and thanks also to my colleagues in the Admin/Mod team who provided photos and contributed to the prize fund.

Keep your eyes peeled for the next prize quiz, perhaps around Easter. In the mean time there will likely be picture quizzes that are just for fun!

[trainer]

I don't wish to have my score published (I couldn't cope with the shame  ) but thanks for providing a diverting couple of hours.  It has shown me one thing: I must get out more.   

[ReWind]

Could you publish my results when you have a minute please.

[thetrout]

Happy for you to publish mine

[JayMac]

Could you publish my results when you have a minute please.

Here you go ReWind:

1.  Looe
2.  Kentish Town
3.  Bicester
4.  Meadowhall
5.  Willesden Junction
6.  Clapham Junction
7.  Exmouth
8.  Bleaneau Ffesstiniogg
9.  Bristol Temple Meads
10.  Dawlish
11.  Shepherds Bush
12.  Cardiff Queen Street
13.  Weston Super Mare
14.  Littlehampton
15.  Taunton
16.  Didcot Parkway
17.  Richmond
18.  Nottingham
19.  London St Pancras
20.  Frome
21.  Dorchester West
22.  Dorchester South
23.  Gateshead
24.  Gunnislake
25.  Plymouth

Score: 6/25.

[JayMac]

Happy for you to publish mine

As you wish thetrout:

Poor attempt. But here goes:

P1:
P2:
P3:
P4: Wolverhampton - Platform with the First Class Lounge (5 Maybe??)
P5: Salisbury
P6:
P7:
P8: Porthmadog
P9: Bristol Temple Meads
P10: Guess - Bridgwater (Or commonly known to outsiders and Revenue Teams as Bildgewater)
P11: London Paddington - New Entrance to Platforms 15/16 for London Underground Circle/Hammersmith & City)
P12: Cardiff Queen Street
P13: Weston-Super-Mare (Weston-Super-Mud)
P14: Shanklin - (Also used in a previous quiz of mine )
P15: Yeovil Junction
P16:
P17: Greenford
P18: Worchester Shrub Hill
P19: Coventry (Wrong!)
P20: Urm... No Idea... Frome?
P21: Madien Newton
P24: Looe (No Toilet Jokes Please)
P25: Bath Spa - Platform 2 - Looking at the new Restaurant Complex

Regards,

Score: 11/25

[bobm]

Once again an excellent quiz and thanks to the providers of the photos and bignosemac for organising it.  It's good to have the chance to spend time researching them and ruling out the ones you thought were right but then discovering there's a third rail to blow the theory!

[IndustryInsider]

Indeed, an excellent quiz.  I spent far too long trying to identify Queen's Park and Norwich (unsuccessfully, I might add - Norwich looked right, but also looked wrong, so I didn't go with it!) and am bloody annoyed that I didn't identify Wolverhampton, Weston, and Exeter Central - given that I was at all three at some point last year!  Still, I think I just about scraped into double figures!

[Chris from Nailsea]

... and am bloody annoyed that I didn't identify Wolverhampton, Weston, and Exeter Central - given that I was at all three at some point last year!

I do sympathize, IndustryInsider: 13. Weston super Mare was the only one I knew, absolutely definitely, before I was given a glimpse of the correct answers - and that was only because it's one of my local stations.