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Author Topic: Christmas Bumper bignosemac Prize Picture Quiz. December 2012 *CLOSED*  (Read 20470 times)
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« Reply #30 on: January 01, 2013, 21:17:47 »

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!
You could perhaps be let off Exeter Central if you'd visited before the concourse was rebuilt, which was only recently. The new concourse bears little resemblance to the old ticket office and entrance.
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« Reply #31 on: January 01, 2013, 21:44:48 »

I'm quite pleased that I managed to get 10 right, given that it was a very last-minute decision to register and post some answers with no research time whatsoever to try and find some of the answers I didn't know. I'm annoyed that I didn't get Weston-Super-Mare or Yeovil Junction, and am really annoyed that I immediately ruled out Brockenhurst for number 22!
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« Reply #32 on: January 01, 2013, 22:05:08 »

You could perhaps be let off Exeter Central if you'd visited before the concourse was rebuilt, which was only recently. The new concourse bears little resemblance to the old ticket office and entrance.

And very nice it looks, too!
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« Reply #33 on: January 01, 2013, 22:48:10 »

Wow - that was an unexpected result for me! Thanks to bignosemac for organising this quiz, which certainly entertained me for a few hours. And as a long time visitor as a guest on the forum, I'm glad to have finally  registered and got involved, and I'd encourage any other guests like me to do so to. After all, what do you have to lose?
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« Reply #34 on: January 01, 2013, 22:57:26 »

Glad you enjoyed the quiz brooklea.. and welcome to the forum... I hope you find it very useful and informative
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« Reply #35 on: January 02, 2013, 12:29:01 »

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!
You could perhaps be let off Exeter Central if you'd visited before the concourse was rebuilt, which was only recently. The new concourse bears little resemblance to the old ticket office and entrance.

Indeed - it has certainly changed since I was last there!
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« Reply #36 on: January 02, 2013, 13:11:59 »

I got three, (thus did not enter) which was one less than I should have got (Yeovil Jcn) because my trips are almost all confined to the LSWR (London South Western Railway) at the moment and the ghastly GPO(resolve) bridge at TM(resolve) was of course well known to me as a Bristolian.

Why don't they remove it (cost?)?  They took away the ghastly 1930s water tower.

I must have travelled through Queens Park thousands of times, but always 100 feet beneath the surface!

So thanks, even from those of us who really could not sensibly take part.  I found the answers page (newbies, turn back to page 1 where the answers are now filled in) most interesting.
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« Reply #37 on: January 02, 2013, 20:54:21 »

I must have travelled through Queens Park thousands of times, but always 100 feet beneath the surface!
I couldn't get that one either despite travelling through many times ... and I've even driven past it about 6 times in the last two months!
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