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« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2013, 07:40:42 »

Hi All,

Would like to take a guess at No4 think I know the Lupin but I have already had one, you usually state in the first 24 hours but this time just one each, I could be wrong but I dont want to Shouted at  Wink

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« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2013, 07:45:25 »

Oh .. I'm not going to shout.  Please, yes, do go ahead ...
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« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2013, 08:31:08 »

Hi Grahame,

After all that i am going to guess it was taken on the Severn beach Line?

Hide in shame if i am wrong

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« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2013, 08:47:23 »

Hi Grahame,

After all that i am going to guess it was taken on the Severn beach Line?

Hide in shame if i am wrong

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Alas no - but please don't hide.  Celebrate your bravery in taking a guess where few others have been brave.   This is the most difficult of the questions in this quiz, with few obvious clues.
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« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2013, 03:17:04 »

Is #4 somewhere near Digby & Sowton perhaps?
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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2013, 07:00:01 »

Is #4 somewhere near Digby & Sowton perhaps?

Alas - under my definition it's nowhere near - sorry.

The picture isn't a particularly recent one, by the way - it's a picture I would be very surprised to be able to take at the moment.
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2013, 09:26:41 »

Right, so the assumption of a 143 being in the Exeter area would be wrong. It's a single track line, with some sort of public access beside the track - separated by a mesh fence. The 143 itself appears to have yellow doors (I'd guess it's 143619 in its VisitBristol livery) - so I'd guess the Bristol area but obviously not the Severn Beach line? I can't for the life of me think where, though.
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2013, 09:36:08 »

4. I'll hazard a guess at Melksham. For no other reason than it usually features in a selection from grahame!
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« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2013, 09:59:10 »

4. I'll hazard a guess at Melksham. For no other reason than it usually features in a selection from grahame!

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« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2013, 13:11:34 »

It was that buddleia that threw me on No 4.  I thought the Melksham variety was a bit more mauve in colour than the one pictured.
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« Reply #25 on: March 23, 2013, 15:19:54 »

grahame. Could you explain why you wouldn't be able to take a similar picture at the moment? I know a 143 is unlikely to currently grace the line through Melksham. Is that the reason?
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« Reply #26 on: March 23, 2013, 15:25:06 »

grahame. Could you explain why you wouldn't be able to take a similar picture at the moment? I know a 143 is unlikely to currently grace the line through Melksham. Is that the reason?

The lack of the 143 in the area, and the lack of flowers on the Buddlia ... that's all  Cheesy    People were guessing at all sorts of places with trains off Exeter depot, and I felt a further clue would be useful,as the picture is pretty clue-less.
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« Reply #27 on: March 23, 2013, 15:30:42 »

Oh, so nothing to do with the development in the area from where the photo was taken? Spencer's Gate isn't it?  Wink

I didn't cheat, honest. I Googled the image after I made my educated guess.
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« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2013, 15:44:57 »

It was that buddleia that threw me on No 4.  I thought the Melksham variety was a bit more mauve in colour than the one pictured.

Makes a change from the "wrong sort of snow" - now we have the wrong colour flora!

Going back to the picture of the Henley branch train at Twyford, does anyone remember the time in the early 80s when a branch train overran the stops at Twyford and landed on a car waiting outside the station.  The car driver and the two dogs inside survived - although the dogs were missing overnight after the tailgate flew open and they ran off into the darkness.
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