Traditional quiz - almost

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[The Tall Controller]

3 is Pilning

[PhilWakely]

2. Westbury?

[grahame]

3 is Pilning

Yes and

2. Westbury?

Yes.

Co-incidenatal that this pair are identified at the same time. The Westbury picture was take from the Paddington to Bristol train that used the avoiding curve until it was withdrawn in May.  The Pilning picture was taken from the footbridge which will be closed and removed after next Saturday's train service.

[grahame]

Which leaves these three.   If I had been forced to guess which would have been the last three to be identified when I put the quiz up, it would have been these three.   (Unusual that - it's often what I think of as the easy ones that stick!) ... so - free for all if anyone can identify any (or all) or the remainder!

4.


9.


10.

[patch38]

10. - could be Milton Keynes Central?

[rogerw]

Is 9 Gloucester?

[grahame]

Sorry - neither Gloucester nor Milton Keynes feature.   There are direct trains from the place features in picture 10 to Milton Keynes, though ... but not from the place featured in picture 9 to Gloucester.

[Merthyr Imp]

10 - Birmingham New Street?

[grahame]

10 - Birmingham New Street?

Yep!

[chuffed]

10 - Birmingham New Street?

Yep!

I thought there was far too much daylight for that to be New Street. I was there on Thursday and noticed how little daylight has filtered down to the platforms.

[chuffed]

9. Stamford ?

[Merthyr Imp]

10 - Birmingham New Street?

Yep!

I thought there was far too much daylight for that to be New Street. I was there on Thursday and noticed how little daylight has filtered down to the platforms.

The ends of the platforms are in the open.

[IndustryInsider]

And you do now get brief teases of natural light coming down to the bottom of escalators and stairwells.  Much better than it used to be - even if it is confusing for many that you need to use the 'B' end of the platforms to change trains if you don't want to have to go through two sets of ticket barriers in the concourse.

[ellendune]

And you do now get brief teases of natural light coming down to the bottom of escalators and stairwells.  Much better than it used to be - even if it is confusing for many that you need to use the 'B' end of the platforms to change trains if you don't want to have to go through two sets of ticket barriers in the concourse.

If you look in the 4th Photo done on this page, I think you can see the bridge in question at the left hand end of the station

[grahame]

a) Sorry - 9 is not Stamford

b) Birmingham ... picture taken at the northern end with the 153 having pulled into the light.

A couple of personal comments about the 'new' New Street.

I find it odd that at a stations which is a major interchange hub with parallel platforms the route from platform to platform when changing may take you out and in through barriers.  It feels wrong.  Was it done that way ...
1. to give outlets the opportunity to choose a pitch where they can reach passengers and other shop visitors too
2. to add an extra ticket check of long distance passengers
3. because someone thought the design was clever and didn't look at the practicality

I find it frustratingly awkward to find where my connecting train is when I get off my incoming train.   There are few general departures boards on the individual platforms,  when you "do" find one they are cycling s l o w l y through three pages and you can have a long wait, and you have to know your UK^▸ (United Kingdom) and rail geography darned well as all you're given in most cases is a destination.     Solution that I'm starting to use is to look it up on a site such as realtime trains as I approach Birmingham.