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« Reply #30 on: March 22, 2014, 16:41:52 »
Quote from: bignosemac on March 22, 2014, 15:24:30
Mercedes Sprinter?  Tongue
With Waitrose sign writing?
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« Reply #31 on: March 22, 2014, 20:18:08 »
No, it's not Moor Lane, Walton in Gordano.  By a remarkable coincidence, I was actually in Moor Lane in Walton in Gordano today - but I didn't have time to stop for photography, unfortunately.  Roll Eyes

The picture I took yesterday is not anywhere on the Weston Clevedon & Portishead line: I took several pictures at the time, but chose to post the one including the front of my Mercedes Sprinter Waitrose van simply to demonstrate that that particular location is visible from a public road.  Wink
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« Reply #32 on: March 30, 2014, 21:50:11 »
I drove up Bourne Lane again this afternoon, and was reminded that the location of my picture still hasn't been identified ...  Grin
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #33 on: March 31, 2014, 13:07:18 »
Well, with that road identifier, I'm fairly confident in saying that you found some of the little remaining evidence of the Wrington Vale Light Railway in North Somerset.
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« Reply #34 on: March 31, 2014, 21:02:48 »
I did indeed!  Wink Cheesy Grin

See https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.335281,-2.735677,3a,75y,36.49h,74.76t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s1JVuhSc9ywfAh0XHt3cVXA!2e0

I assume there used to be a level crossing there on Bourne Lane - but there's absolutely no physical evidence of it. The view of the trackbed in the other direction, by the way, is completely obscured by loads of, err, manure which a local farmer seems to have piled there, so to speak.  Tongue Roll Eyes
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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