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« on: December 15, 2017, 17:10:26 »
Some of you will have recently seen some of my photograph collection amassed over the past 50 years of my railway career.  See if you can guess the locations of these ones.  I will post a new photograph each time the previous one has been correctly guessed.  Enjoy Wink

No.1  No CfN, its not Taunton......

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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2017, 17:26:48 »
Quote from: SandTEngineer on December 15, 2017, 17:10:26
Some of you will have recently seen some of my photograph collection amassed over the past 50 years of my railway career.  See if you can guess the locations of these ones.  I will post a new photograph each time the previous one has been correctly guessed.

Wow - thank you.  Though I have to admit I would be wildly guess on that starter.
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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2017, 18:39:17 »
Is it Bourne End, looking towards High Wycombe
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2017, 18:42:46 »
I think you have it rogerw
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« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2017, 12:16:13 »
Quote from: rogerw on December 15, 2017, 18:39:17
Is it Bourne End, looking towards High Wycombe

No.1 - Correct.
Photograph taken in Autumn 1969.  Bourne End station in the foreground looking towards High Wycombe.  Bourne End signalbox on the right hand side stands adjacent to the level crossing.  The single (bubble) car DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) is on a High Wycombe to Bourne End service where it connected with a Marlow to Maidenhead service that would reverse in the left hand platform (as those trains do to this day).  In the far distance is Cores End level crossing.  The 'Wycombe Railway' line between High Wycombe and Bourne End closed on 04 May 1970 some 6 months after the photograph was taken.  Bourne End signalbox closed on 22 August 1971.
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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2017, 12:16:37 »
No.2

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« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2017, 15:56:41 »
A very wild guess somewhere between Didcot and Swindon. There aren't many staions where there 4 tracks paired by directions.
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« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2017, 16:08:06 »
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Norton Fitzwarren ?
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« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2017, 16:33:56 »
No2 Goring ? By any chance.
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« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2017, 19:10:20 »
It has a look of the 'new' Birmingham avoiding line with tracks paired by direction - long platform loops.  Somewhere between Anyho Junction and Princes Risborough would be my guess - but not quite accurate enough.
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« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2017, 19:47:27 »
Quote from: Oxonhutch on December 16, 2017, 19:10:20
It has a look of the 'new' Birmingham avoiding line with tracks paired by direction - long platform loops.  Somewhere between Anyho Junction and Princes Risborough would be my guess - but not quite accurate enough.

I was thinking along similar lines (ho ho), but further in. The GCR» (Gloucester - next trains) built several stations with pretty much that track layout, but I can't find one that was still rural so late and with that bridge in the distance.
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« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2017, 21:29:30 »
No.2 - None of the above guesses.  If nobody gets it by close of play on Sunday 17th I'll give a few clues Wink
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« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2017, 22:34:47 »
I vaguely wondered if it's Badminton
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« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2017, 00:33:10 »
Hmm.  Undecided

It could be Badminton - from Wikipedia:



Well, it ain't Taunton, anyway.  Tongue
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« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2017, 00:46:38 »
Actually, having done a bit more digging around on the internet, I'm now convinced that grahame is right - it's Badminton:



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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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