Can you help identify the places / events from the last year?

[whole diary]

[grahame]

I've just blogged a year of memories, but my pictures have all got mixed up. ;-)

Can you name the four places and / or identify the picture otherwise for any of the sets?

For the first 24 hours, please identify as many as you can WITHIN ONE SET^▸ (Super Express Train (now IET)) ... if you get 'em wrong you can have another go.

The images are all at http://www.wellho.net/mouth/4367_A-year-of-rail-memories-.html where clicking on an image will display it larger and to a much higher quality!

COMPLETE ANSWERS now published in reply No. 23







COMPLETE ANSWERS now published in reply No. 23

Identified so far ...

Set 1
1
2 Reading - Stuving
3
4

Set 2
1
2 Chippenham / disused platform - Chris from Nailsea
3
4 Cheltenham Spa - Brizzlechris

Set 3
1 Oxford - Stuving
2
3
4

Set 4
1
2
3 Paddington - Ellendune
4

Set 5
1
2 Claire Perry in Melksham - Chris from Nailsea
3 Exeter St Davids - Ellendune
4

Set 6
1 Weston super Mare - Chris from Nailsea
2
3
4 Westbury - Chris from Nailsea

Set 7
1
2
3
4

Set 8
1 Melksham / station car part - Chris from Nailsea
2 Dilton Marsh - Chris from Nailsea
3
4

Set 9
1 Bristol Temple Meads - Chris from Nailsea
2 Carlisle - Ellendune
3 Birmingham New Street - Ellendune
4 Trowbridge - Chris from Nailsea

Set 10
1
2
3
4

Set 11
1
2
3
4 Cambridge, guided busway at Milton Road - Stuving

Set 12
1 Weymouth - thetrout
2 Swindon - Ellendune
3
4

Set 13
1
2
3
4

Set 14
1
2 Melksham / Carnival, July 2014 - Chris from Nailsea
3 Melksham / new shelter - Chris from Nailsea
4 Trowbridge - Chris from Nailsea

Set 15
1
2
3 Yeovil Pen Mill - Chris from Nailsea
4

Set 16
1 Birmingham Moor Street - Tim
2
3 Bath Spa - Brizzlechris
4

Set 17
1
2 Glasow Subway - Bignosemac
3 Chippenham - Tim
4

Set 18
1 Newport - Ellendune
2
3 Bath Spa - Chris from Nailsea
4 King's Cross - Ellendune

COMPLETE ANSWERS now published in reply No. 23


Edited to reflect answer given so far

[grahame]

I have put these pictures in as a new set of images at the top of pages too.

Can anyone tell me where any were taken, or are you blown away with engineering work discussions 

[Chris from Nailsea]

17.  Claire Perry MP^▸ (Member of Parliament), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, at Well House Manor, Melksham, 29 August 2014.  (I'm really sorry I wasn't able to attend that Melksham Transport Links event, for various reasons.) 

[JayMac]

Set 17, picture 2. Glasgow Subway.

[thetrout]

Something rather suspicious about that character in Set 13, Picture 2.........

As for Set 12 Picture 1 - Weymouth with the Summer Special Weymouth Wizard HST^▸ (High Speed Train)

[grahame]

17.  Claire Perry MP^▸ (Member of Parliament), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, at Well House Manor, Melksham, 29 August 2014.  (I'm really sorry I wasn't able to attend that Melksham Transport Links event, for various reasons.) 

That's shown in set 5 picture 2  - yes indeed.  Picture with Anne Lock, long time person behind the move for a station in Corsham, and Peter Blackburn, Chair of MRDG^» (Melksham Railway Development Group - about) and Vice Chair of TransWilts Community Rail Partnership. A very interesting meeting indeed which informed the minister, showed her how busy we have been, and impressed us with her knowledge very quickly into the job.  However, we also got sense of hurdles to be jumped and goalposts drifting to ongoing service from after the trial period.

Set 17, picture 2. Glasgow Subway.

Correct as far as you go.  Would anyone care to name the station, though, like we normally do  . I took the opportunity of giving a course in Glasgow to take a ride on the subway - more to learn a little about the network than because of a specific need / I could have walked.   Fascinating at the small size - the tunnel diameter makes London's deep tube look massive.

Something rather suspicious about that character in Set 13, Picture 2.........

As for Set 12 Picture 1 - Weymouth with the Summer Special Weymouth Wizard HST^▸ (High Speed Train)

I'm not sure I see anybody "suspicious".  I do see a key TransWilts CRP^▸ (Community Rail Partnership) supporter who was a rock as usual on that day. Santa Claus was coming to town!

Yes, Weymouth with the Wizard HST.  The Wizard was advertised along the TransWilts line section where it doesn't go (Swindon, Chippenham, Melksham) and didn't connect, but Dad and I took a trip to Weymouth.  We let the official connection go at Westbury (packed, and Dad's getting on) and took the Wizard half an hour later.  A slow schedule and as I recall delays along the way too.   Well - we went more for the journey than a full day at destination, so not a bad day.   Overall, there were engineering overruns, weather issues, and all sorts of other issues that made TransWits to Weymouth a bit of a flop compared to how it went in 2011; having said that, people had other choices in 2014, and they were a great success, allowing us to offer Weymouth as a headline marketing tool, but not promote it to the degree that we put more passengers on that line than it could cope with at the peak.

[Chris from Nailsea]

As we are now beyond the 'one guess only, please, for the first 24 hours' rule, I'm going to have a stab at a few locations for those images. 

Set 2, 1.  Chippenham (from the currently disused down platform);

Set 8, 1.  Melksham Station car park;

Set 8, 2.  Dilton Marsh;

Set 9, 1.  Bristol Temple Meads (looking south west, towards the Bath Road bridge);

Set 9, 4.  Trowbridge;

Set 14, 3.  Melksham Station (new shelter being installed);

Set 14, 4.  Trowbridge (from the footbridge);

Set 18, 3.  Bath Spa (grass growing between the tracks gives it away ).

Sheer embarrassment prompts me to identify various characters portrayed in Set 14, 2.  Bernard Lane of FoSBR^» (Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways - site), David Redgewell, John Money and ... cough ... myself, among others.  Melksham Carnival, 12 July 2014. 

[stuving]

I'm not sure I quite follow how the pictures in a set are meant to be linked. So while 11.4 is the start of the Cambridge Guided Busway, where it sets off from Milton Road towards St. Ives, 1.2 is Reading, and 3.1 is Oxford - so what?

[grahame]

I'm not sure I quite follow how the pictures in a set are meant to be linked. So while 11.4 is the start of the Cambridge Guided Busway, where it sets off from Milton Road towards St. Ives, 1.2 is Reading, and 3.1 is Oxford - so what?

The "pictures from the year" - 72 of them - have been randomly ordered using the algorithm at http://www.wellho.net/mouth/4368_Shuffling-a-list-Ruby-and-Python.html (complete program at http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php?item=r107/randimages ).  I felt - perhaps not correctly as responses turn out - that 18 questions with 4 step answers would be a nice change from 72 simple questions.  I have also set myself a problem in going back and writing in which is where ... I will tackle that later today.

[ellendune]

18.4 Kings Cross?
12.2 Swindon?

[grahame]

18.4 Kings Cross?
12.2 Swindon?

Yep, that's King's Cross WITH trains, and Swindon from an express 'special' passing none-stop

I have added a listing of the correct identifications made so far after the picture in the first post in this thread at
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=15116

CfN - many thanks for all you answers - so many that I'm not commenting individually on each of them, but each a memory for me!

Edit to add - set 14, no. 4 - NOT Trowbridge, rather Bradford-on-Avon

[ellendune]

I don't know how I missed 4.3 - Paddington P8
I think 9.2 is Carlisle

[grahame]

Some of the easy ones are sticking - any offers on set 6 (with 3 our of 4 in FGW^▸ (First Great Western) territory)









or on set 15, which also features 3 out of 4 in our area:

[ellendune]

6.2 is of course Swindon.  I did not spot it before.  The photos are so small.

And is 6.3 York?

[grahame]

6.2 is of course Swindon.  I did not spot it before.  The photos are so small.

And is 6.3 York?

Right on both counts.

York, on my way to the Association of Community Rail Partnerships AGM^▸ (Annual General Meeting) and annual awards.  Much as I have spoken against such awards in the past, we did enter two categories (failed to meet the entrance requirements though - my error), and found the whole exercise to be very useful in taking a careful look at how others would see us from outside, and the awards event very useful in learning and making contacts with other CRPs^▸ (Community Rail Partnership) and with TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company) team members.

The pictures are all available larger (see note in my original post) but I appreciate that to see them that way you need to look at them on a one by one basis ...