Six of the best!

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[grahame]

I may live on the TransWilts line - a railway that connects five towns in Wiltshire, with some extensions to three more ... but from there I can reach over 2500 destinations in Great Britain by train.

Now - where can you see that I have been?   



All of these pictures are from my train trips in recent years and this spring and summer I've a lot more journey options!













If you can identify the location of ALL SIX of these, please post where they are! 

[JayMac]

Fairly sure I know all locations, but I'll answer just the one to let others have a go.

3. Crofton Beam Engines, next to the Berks & Hants Rly and Kennet & Avon Canal, between Bedwyn and Pewsey

[John R]

5. Bont y bermo.

[grahame]

5. Bont y bermo.

Et en anglais, s'il vous pla^t? Je sais qu'il doit ^tre ^crit en gallois, mais pour les indig^nes de l'Angleterre leur propre langue trop serait utile!

[Red Squirrel]

5. Bont y bermo.

Et en anglais, s'il vous pla^t? Je sais qu'il doit ^tre ^crit en gallois, mais pour les indig^nes de l'Angleterre leur propre langue trop serait utile!

Now then, how does one go about setting up a poll on this site? The questions being: Do you think it is wrong to refer to places in Wales by their Welsh name?

[johoare]

6 is Paddington 

[johoare]

6 is Paddington 

Or 5 is Paddington if we're not counting the first picture (otherwise there would be 7)

[SandTEngineer]

1. Melksham
2. Barmouth Bridge
3. Weymouth
4. Crofton (Pumping Station)
5. Bristol Temple Meads
6. Paddington
7. Glasgow central

[grahame]

1. Melksham

2. Barmouth Bridge
3. Weymouth
4. Crofton (Pumping Station)
5. Bristol Temple Meads
6. Paddington
7. Glasgow central

Spot on - the second set is all places you can now get to, comfortably and at a decent time of day, from the first station. The picture showing a whole load of people looking excitedly it the direction of a train arriving is much more a thing of the past now, as trains arrive about once an hour through the day 

[SandTEngineer]

Just a small observation.  Don't you have a Yellow Line on the platform at Melksham............

[Sion Bretton]

No yellow line at melksham.

[bobm]

Linespeed is 40mph - I understand a yellow line is only mandatory where line speed is 100mph.  It was also put along platforms where slamdoor stock used to call in the days before central locking.

[grahame]

Just a small observation.  Don't you have a Yellow Line on the platform at Melksham............

That's correct.   The speed of trains that don't stop at Melksham Station isn't high enough to warrant it, as it's on a corner (or as much of a corner as you get on a mainline railway) so they are all going slowly (or as slow as express trains go for such a corner).

Bearing in mind that the users of this station are likely (for a year or two anyway) to be relatively unfamiliar with train travel and the need for care, even if the timetable shows nothing until their train, we enquired about yellow lines.  The capital cost of providing them apparently isn't the big concern - the concern is the operational cost of keeping them clean and smart.

We have a (self imposed) limit of trying not to attract more than 120 users per train for safety reasons at the station. And - before you ask - we're looking at lower numbers when the train's a 153 rostered service.

Linespeed is 40mph - I understand a yellow line is only mandatory where line speed is 100mph.  It was also put along platforms where slamdoor stock used to call in the days before central locking.

I had *slightly* different figures to those ... but principle applies.

Of course, if we did have yellow lines there might not be much space left for passengers



and they might be ignored anyway

[Chris from Nailsea]

5. Bont y bermo.

I think you meant 2, rather than 5. 

[John R]

I wasn't sure which way the pictures were running, so saw BNM has numbered Crofton 3 and worked from there.

You can't expect me to be good with numbers.