Placing pictures in the order take - slightly different quiz

[whole diary]

[grahame]

As some of you may have read in the thread at http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=17825.0 , I travelled out from Melksham to Motherwell on Friday and back on Saturday. A great chance to observe outside the GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) area and take pictures to remind me of some things I saw; some individual comments and thoughts to appear elsewhere and although I'm posting in "the lighter side" some very interesting and serious thought arise.

But to start in "the lighter side" and a bit of an experiment - can you put these in the order they were taken, knowing my journey?   One or two may be impossible to know where they were taken at the same place.   Can I suggest members chip in with what they can identify and we'll see where we end up - I'm going to apply a light touch, and not going to limit number of identifications either.

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[ellendune]

2 is the old Curzon Street station Building in Birmingham on the East side of New street Station.  Whether it is north or south of New street depends on what route your train took - it would only be on you route south of New Street if the train took the camp hill route.  It could be on the north if your train came from Derby.

[Oxonhutch]

d, is Preston. Looks like the newly extended and rarely used platform 7 (mainly) southbound. The girders above the policemen's heads is where a divergence though to the L&Y side of the station (towards the photographer) went in its pre-1972 days. Platforms 5 and 6 now lengthened and straightened. So you're on you way home by my guess!

[JayMac]

8 looks like Birmingham New St.

[stuving]

g. is Newcastle - the Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge with the Tyne bridge seen through it. So looking eastwards, though the train could be going either way. But I know the outward trip was done via this route, and I don't think the return was, so most likely it was travelling north.

[Worcester_Passenger]

6 is the River Tweed at Berwick, looking upstream.

You did say no limit on numbers, so (c) is the River Tweed at Berwick, looking downstream towards the two road bridges and Tweedmouth. (c) is probably slightly before (6).

[plymothian]

a and f are both Bristol Temple Meads.  a being Platform 3 and f the subway stairs to Platform 4 [and 3].

[grahame]

6 is the River Tweed at Berwick, looking upstream.

You did say no limit on numbers, so ...

correct - a quiz without limits

[froome]

j, I think, must be Ashchurch.

[Worcester_Passenger]

I think that (e) is the old Brightside station near Meadowhall.

[stuving]

Logically, one of those ought to be Motherwell. And it's h. Almost dark, so it would be arriving on Friday at 16:30.

[rower40]

I think that (e) is the old Brightside station near Meadowhall.

I think you may mean Rotherham Masborough: this looks like the down loop, extremely overgrown (trees of diameter 2 inches plus) but with spanking new LED signals at either end.

[grahame]

Looks like you're coming along well (and I did say I was going to answer "lite') - all but one pictures placed to the right town so far (and the one that's wrong is a bit of a nasty one to work out!)

You'll see from other threads a log of the Cross Country train all the way from Cheltenham Spa via the East Coast to Motherwell ... where I worked until 16:35 on the Saturday before setting off home - I got to my home in Melksham, near as darn it, to midnight.  I suspect that information will tell you exactly which trains I was on ... so where I was on the platform.

[Adelante_CCT]

Hope your camera was ok after someone sneezed on it before taking picture b 

[ellendune]

I think 7 is Cheltenham Spa