Advent Quiz 2015

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[grahame]

Showing on the forum under a thread on Oxford Station, but I suspect a guess at the location for picture No. 10

Nairn

I suspect that there was some double posting of threads yesterday and some tidying up late at night, and in that tidy up activity the suggestion for picture no 10 (?) got deleted from this thread - sorry about that!

[SandTEngineer]

No.10 - Where's the signalmans bike?........

[Worcester_Passenger]

The train in the left-hand platform is a lot bigger than anything I'd expect on that line. And it's got what looks like a full-length kitchen car.

[Bmblbzzz]

Is it just me, or do all of those figures on the platform in the 10 December picture look like Hornby 00 scale plastic models, glued in place? 

Either that or illustrations from a Ladybird book!

By the way, that one's definitely not Bedminster or anywhere in Eastern Europe. 

[grahame]

11th December 2015

[SandTEngineer]

No.11 - Silk Mill (Crossing) at Taunton looking east (CfN will be pleased ).  Westbound HST^▸ (High Speed Train).  Photograph taken from overbridge that replaced the former level crossing.  Running lines (left to right): Up Main, Down Main, Up and Down Relief.

[JayMac]

Silk Mills, Taunton. From the road bridge that replaced the level crossing.


EDIT: Ahh, damn. Beaten to it by SandTEngineer.

FURTHER EDIT: A history of the Silk Mills link road, the level crossing and the bridge replacement: http://www.tauntontrains.co.uk/MEMORIES-SILKMILL.htm

[SandTEngineer]

Silk Mills, Taunton. From the road bridge that replaced the level crossing.


EDIT: Ahh, damn. Beaten to it by SandTEngineer.

Sorry BNM.  We must have been typing at the same time.  I pressed the post button 58 seconds before you did

I have had been fortunate to have worked all over the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) in my 45 year career in S&T^▸ (Signalling and Telegraph) engineering so will hopefully spot any site especially if it has a signal or set of points etc. in it

[JayMac]

As a kid I spent many hours sitting in cars in queues at that level crossing. Used to go fishing nearby too, as well as muck about in the WW2 'Taunton Stop Line' pill box next to the crossing. I think that may technically have been trespassing on railway land but the pill box was accessible from wasteland next to the road, not fenced off in any way.

[SandTEngineer]

....and just to add to No.11 the signal (back of) that can be seen in the distance was commissioned as SM322 on 12 May 1986 and was temporarily controlled by Silk Mill signal box until control of the Taunton area was transferred to Exeter panel when it then became E322 as it is today

[grahame]

12th December 2015

[AMLAG]

Whimple; looking from Dpwn platform towards Honiton

[Oxonhutch]

A pole route, a goods yard, a trailing crossover and a train with a proper tail lamp - memories!

Mid 70's early 80's? "Way out" looks a little too modern for the scene.

[stuving]

Mid 70's early 80's? "Way out" looks a little too modern for the scene.

The "Rail Alphabet" typeface was adopted in 1965, though it may have taken a while to spread to such minor stations. I'm sure it did look modern, in situ, and in some ways it still does. But maybe it's more that stations looked then as if they belonged in a much earlier age, and in many cases they still do. 

[Rob on the hill]

45 year career in S&T^▸ (Signalling and Telegraph) engineering[/quote]

I now realise that you are an S&T engineer, rather than Sand T Engineer....!