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« on: May 15, 2018, 20:43:10 »
Where was I on Friday?
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2018, 22:19:13 »
Not a lot to go on.

I'll take a wild stab at Flax Bourton.
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« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2018, 22:51:51 »
Quote from: bignosemac on May 15, 2018, 22:19:13
Not a lot to go on.

Are you talking about GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) trains again ?





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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2018, 23:12:50 »
Quote from: bignosemac on May 15, 2018, 22:19:13
Not a lot to go on.

I'll take a wild stab at Flax Bourton.
i thought that as well.
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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2018, 23:38:10 »
It's not Flax Bourton.  The track alignment and foliage is all wrong.  Wink
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« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2018, 06:38:44 »
Quote from: Bmblbzzz on May 15, 2018, 20:43:10
Where was I on Friday?


Standing on a rail overbridge looking down on a double track railway line currently not being electrified but within GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) territory possibly the Golden Valley line between Stroud and Kemble.
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« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2018, 09:56:49 »
It is GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) but not Flax Bourton or the Stroud Valleys Line. It is actually a rather well known place. Imagine a hot June day, weeds on a platform, a blackbird singing ...
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« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2018, 10:02:48 »
Adlestrop

Newly double tracked?
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« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2018, 10:40:00 »
Yes, it's Adlestrop. The old station building is just off to the left behind the trees. I think it was double tracked a couple of years ago, wasn't it?
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« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2018, 10:56:54 »
Quote from: Bmblbzzz on May 16, 2018, 10:40:00
Yes, it's Adlestrop. The old station building is just off to the left behind the trees. I think it was double tracked a couple of years ago, wasn't it?

Moreton-in-Marsh to Ascott-under-Wychwood was not singled back in 1971 when most of the Wolvercot Jcn - Norton Jcn line suffered that fate.  So not recently re-doubled, no.

Amazing to find that the re-doubled bit between Moreton-in-Marsh and Evesham happened in 2011 - already seven years ago.
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« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2018, 11:12:46 »
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« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2018, 14:07:15 »
Here's another. Yesterday I was near a defunct railway bridge, also in GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) territory, a branch from a line that still operates:
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« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2018, 15:13:38 »
Somewhere up near to Hampstead Norreys on the branch that used to run north from Newbury?
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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2018, 16:19:45 »
Nowhere near there that far east, I'm afraid.
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« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2018, 16:23:12 »
A couple of "live" ones while I'm here.
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