Some monochrome pictures to identify

[whole diary]

[grahame]

j = Dduallt, Ffestiniog Railway when still the temporary terminus.

Merry Xmas all!

PS. You weren't a Deviationist were you Grahame?

My deviancy came later ... in daring to agree with 7 responses to the Greater Western franchise consultation of 2005 that 2 trains each way per day wasn't really appropriate for the Westbury to Swindon service for the following ten years.

I did make one or two approaches to get involved with groups in those days, but I was a somewhat unskilled youth at communicating and making friends, and those with whom I felt I could assist / work with towards goals were very much their own already-established cliques without time / patience for more than very limited lip service to people wanting to help.

Oh gosh - this is lighter side, but very much an issue we still have to this day - for those of us in the voluntary / community sector to ensure that we welcome and make proper use and appreciate the people who are there and around and really wish to be involved - value their time and resource, and make the very best of it while understanding that some of the people who wish to get involved may in fact be impractical to make use of because their wish may be beyond the time they have available, or beyond their ability.   I was thinking on this yesterday - nothing to do with rail, but Gypsy and I went along to an event advertised on Facebook - to lent a hand in a Christmas Eve collection.   Messaged ahead to ask when we could be most useful / no reply so went up there anyway, to be told "we do this every year and don't need help".   Thanks, folks!   I am aware, though, that it'd all too easy to stand in a greenhouse and throw stones and that I'm far from perfect (actually pretty poor at times) at welcoming and making best use of volunteer resource.

[grahame]

Merry xmas everybody

D = Dartford
L = Aberystwyth

Merry Christmas ... yes, it's Dartford (and what's the train in the picture?)

Thought I said it was a double decker train.......

...and I have suddenly realised where L now is.....

Think that was added in your edit on D ... and I had hit "reply with quote" on your original?   Yep - that's the double decker returning to depot after its final run in service.

And you are allowed to tell us where "L" is ...

[grahame]

f is the Welshpool and Llanfair possibly Castle Caereinion

Correct on both counts ... in the days that it only ran from Llanfair Caereinion to Castle Caereinion

[SandTEngineer]

OK.

D = Welshpool  

[grahame]

Just out of interest the Willesden Green photograph must have been taken between 1960 and 1970 as there is an A Stock train in the background and the engineering train is led by one of the LT Pannier Tank engines.

According to Wikipedia ... "From 1956 these were replaced by ex-GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) 0-6-0PT pannier tanks, to be replaced by diesel-hydraulic locomotives in 1971" ... and as this was the final steam run I'm going to say "1971". Must have been common in the 1960s - but this is the swan song picture.

[grahame]

OK.

D = Welshpool  

Make that "L" and I'll say 'yes'.    What struck me looking back was the huge station and forecourt that was totally out of use.   On the day, I took a bus (that one?) to the Welshpool and Llanfair, which at that time hadn't re-reached Llanfair - so two of my historic pictures in this quiz were taken on the same day!

[grahame]

Just b, g and h remain unidentified / uncommented upon. h is going to be very much a comment rather than an identification of the location ... b and g some member(s) may be able to tell me where they were taken.

b.

g.

h.

[SandTEngineer]

OK.

D = Welshpool  

Make that "L" and I'll say 'yes'.    What struck me looking back was the huge station and forecourt that was totally out of use.   On the day, I took a bus (that one?) to the Welshpool and Llanfair, which at that time hadn't re-reached Llanfair - so two of my historic pictures in this quiz were taken on the same day!

Oh bu**er, yes, L.  Too much festive spirit already (the liquid kind that is)

[SandTEngineer]

Just out of interest the Willesden Green photograph must have been taken between 1960 and 1970 as there is an A Stock train in the background and the engineering train is led by one of the LT Pannier Tank engines.

According to Wikipedia ... "From 1956 these were replaced by ex-GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) 0-6-0PT pannier tanks, to be replaced by diesel-hydraulic locomotives in 1971" ... and as this was the final steam run I'm going to say "1971". Must have been common in the 1960s - but this is the swan song picture.

The last one I saw was in 1968 at Chesham.  Didn't have a camera then.

[SandTEngineer]

Think I know where B is but will let others have a try.

[ellendune]

A comment about h is that it never happened! The line did not close it was kept open.

[PhilWakely]

h.  Pick a name from that list.  I'll go for Towyn as the BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) station is as good as adjacent to the Talyllyn railway ?? ??

[grahame]

A comment about h is that it never happened! The line did not close it was kept open.

Totally happy that one's still running ... now with the most modern signalling system in Europe?

"We" did loose Gogath, Abertafol, Llangelynin (at a later date?) and Black Rock ... but it was a great pleasure within the last couple of years to take a train from Tygwyn to Penrhydeaudreath.

h.  Pick a name from that list.  I'll go for Towyn as the BR^▸ (British Rail(ways)) station is as good as adjacent to the Talyllyn railway ?? ??

Thinking back many years, I recall that the sign was the remenant at a smaller station rather than the threat still existing at that point - note the tears, etc.    No way (without goung through whole lists) that you would know which; I'll tell you when I summarise later on.

[ellendune]

b Guessing it is somewhere on the line from Three Cocks Junction to Moat Lane Junction.  Probably towards the northern end.  Rhayader?

[grahame]

b Guessing it is somewhere on the line from Three Cocks Junction to Moat Lane Junction.  Probably towards the northern end.  Rhayader?

Right country ... but even with the wide spray of "somewhere on the line", I'm afraid you're not right.  The picture's taken at something of a favourite station of mine, and indeed one that I've used in quite recent years.

Not a single guess at g yet ...

Open floor - anyone fill use in?