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« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2015, 15:29:47 »
I think there are one or two clearer clues in this one ... perhaps as easy as no. 3 is hard?

4th December 2015
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« Reply #31 on: December 04, 2015, 16:10:53 »
Is that the extra picture to help us identify 'Ruritania'* or is it the next place?

*'First' is an acronym formed from the Ruritanian for 'Fast Sleek Silent', here used in the masculine nominative applying to the train and clearly after the spelling reform came in.
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« Reply #32 on: December 04, 2015, 16:25:15 »
Quote from: Bmblbzzz on December 04, 2015, 16:10:53
Is that the extra picture to help us identify 'Ruritania'* or is it the next place?

It's to help you identify Ruritania, a.k.a. .... oops - nearly gave it away  Grin
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« Reply #33 on: December 05, 2015, 10:24:42 »
Today's picture is as early as yesterday's was late  - "personal reasons" - hopefully back online this evening.

5th December 2015
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« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2015, 13:24:30 »
No 5 Peak District !.
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« Reply #35 on: December 05, 2015, 15:08:26 »
OLE▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") wires look non standard - how about somewhere on the Woodhead route?
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« Reply #36 on: December 05, 2015, 15:35:20 »
I'll go for Pinhoe for No.4
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« Reply #37 on: December 05, 2015, 16:46:50 »
No.5 - Crewe in the late 1970s early 1980s.
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« Reply #38 on: December 05, 2015, 21:07:33 »
Quote from: Adelante_CCT on December 05, 2015, 15:35:20
I'll go for Pinhoe for No.4

I don't think Pinhoe is "mainline" enough.  Online images suggest it has wooden sleepers and no yellow platform lines.
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« Reply #39 on: December 05, 2015, 21:21:25 »
Quote from: ellendune on December 05, 2015, 15:08:26
OLE▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") wires look non standard - how about somewhere on the Woodhead route?

As an ex-Glossopian I concur with you re the OLE (good spot)  The Woodhead route does have that kind of support (very robust they are too in all weathers).  However, I have travelled the remaining Manchester-Glossop/Hadfield line many times and also walked the route to the Tunnels and I don't recognise that wall.  SO if you are right and it is the Woodhead route, I would say that it must be East of Woodhead station.
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« Reply #40 on: December 05, 2015, 21:22:08 »
I think 4th December is somewhere down on the coast of Ruritania, or failing that Cornwall or Devon seaside. Dawlish Warren?
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« Reply #41 on: December 05, 2015, 22:53:21 »
4 has a white-on-black rather than black-on-white platform number sign, which makes me think SWT▸ (South West Trains) territory rather than GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)...
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« Reply #42 on: December 05, 2015, 23:10:55 »
Quote from: Tim on December 05, 2015, 21:21:25
Quote from: ellendune on December 05, 2015, 15:08:26
OLE▸ (Overhead Line Equipment, more often "OHLE") wires look non standard - how about somewhere on the Woodhead route?

As an ex-Glossopian I concur with you re the OLE (good spot)  The Woodhead route does have that kind of support (very robust they are too in all weathers).  However, I have travelled the remaining Manchester-Glossop/Hadfield line many times and also walked the route to the Tunnels and I don't recognise that wall.  SO if you are right and it is the Woodhead route, I would say that it must be East of Woodhead station.

I was thinking East as well.
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« Reply #43 on: December 06, 2015, 10:18:28 »
Before Graham posts number 6, just a quick roll back to number 3.................. For those of you with Ruritanian blood, the place featured in number 3 probably sold more platform tickets at the time the picture was taken than it did travel tickets  Lips sealed
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« Reply #44 on: December 06, 2015, 11:04:04 »
Quote from: Adelante_CCT on December 05, 2015, 15:35:20
I'll go for Pinhoe for No.4
Me also.
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