What can you tell me?

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[BerkshireBugsy]

Bearing in mind that I was travelling in the regular passenger accommodation of an HST^▸ (High Speed Train) when I took this picture, what can you tell me about where I was and the service I was on?

Lost?

Obviously we all are...and I should be doing documentation !

[JayMac]

There's some telephoto going on or foreground cropped out, and I'd guess you were in the Westbury area. With the Denton's building top left I'd say you were going around the East Loop toward Trowbridge. Looking down the line toward Westbury station. On the 1707 from Paddington.

Possibly.

[BerkshireBugsy]

There's some telephoto going on or foreground cropped out, and I'd guess you were in the Westbury area. With the Denton's building top left I'd say you were going around the East Loop toward Trowbridge. Looking down the line toward Westbury station. On the 1707 from Paddington.

LOL^▸ (laughing out loud) - can you not be more specific?!

Is the Denton building the one with the 4 chimneys ?

[JayMac]

 No. Top left. Windows along the grey roof line.

[Gordon the Blue Engine]

BNM, I never cease to be amazed by your geographic knowledge of the FGW^▸ (First Great Western) patch.  Looking at Google Earth I think you're right - the new houses on the left are the new Lakeside View development which is just a waste area on GE next to the lake - which is green.  The developer's site plan matches the picture.

I was a little bit warm with the long lens guess!!

Why did we all (except BNM) assume that Grahame's picture was taken at right angles to the direction of travel?

[grahame]

There's some telephoto going on or foreground cropped out, and I'd guess you were in the Westbury area. With the Denton's building top left I'd say you were going around the East Loop toward Trowbridge. Looking down the line toward Westbury station. On the 1707 from Paddington.

LOL^▸ (laughing out loud) - can you not be more specific?!

You are spot on.  Not all that much "telephoto" - taken with an iPhone with the HST^▸ (High Speed Train) window dropped to avoid reflections (but not doing anything dangerous in terms of hanging out).  Sure, cropped a little.   There's a 15 m.p.h. limit around that curve to it's very tight and I was surprised at the angle / shot I got.

Last night, by the way.   Not a wildly crowded train once it left Bedwyn (non stop to Trowbridge!); changed there onto the 19:38 via Melksham which was MUCH busier with 39 passengers out of Trowbridge, of whom 12 got off at Melksham.

[grahame]

The picture I took a couple of minutes earlier might have been a bit easier (location) but harder (which train!)



I do love Wiltshire

[BerkshireBugsy]

Assuming that is the white horse at uffington we walked up there a couple of months ago and loved it. It was a lovely day and we had a picnic and could see this line in the distance. Lovely part of the world

[grahame]

Assuming that is the white horse at uffington we walked up there a couple of months ago and loved it. It was a lovely day and we had a picnic and could see this line in the distance. Lovely part of the world

Lots of white horses ...









The one from yesterday is actually the Westbury one ... Uffington is, I think, the oldest and more stylised

[ellendune]

Assuming that is the white horse at uffington we walked up there a couple of months ago and loved it. It was a lovely day and we had a picnic and could see this line in the distance. Lovely part of the world

No the White Horse at Uffingtonis very different.

It is also not in Wiltshire - it is in Berkshire (even if they call it Oxfordshire these days).

[JayMac]

Back to the original post. It was the Denton's building that gave me the answer. It's fairly unique, architecturally, with that roof line, and it looms large over Westbury station.

Then it was just a case of orientation to match that building's location with the various lines around Westbury. Google Earth on my phone was used for confirmation.