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« on: August 27, 2018, 18:25:52 »
Lisa has asked me if any of you folks will be able to help place this photograph ... from an old postcard, but we don't have anything else to go on.   As there are some signals ...
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« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2018, 19:46:39 »
OK I'll bite.  For starters it doesn't look GWR▸ (Great Western Railway).  Bit difficult to see the signalbox type.  The signal looks 'Great Eastern' or 'Great Central' in appearance.  Thinking......
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« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2018, 20:18:11 »
Does the reverse of the postcard offer any clues?
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« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2018, 20:42:56 »
Quote from: patch38 on August 27, 2018, 20:18:11
Does the reverse of the postcard offer any clues?

Quote from: SandTEngineer on August 27, 2018, 19:46:39
OK I'll bite.  For starters it doesn't look GWR▸ (Great Western Railway).  Bit difficult to see the signalbox type.  The signal looks 'Great Eastern' or 'Great Central' in appearance.  Thinking......

Lisa has been passed the picture with very little data ... see what more I can find.   She will probably have to ask back ...
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« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2018, 20:47:14 »
Grahame, more inclined towards the 'Great Central' angle so anywhere rural on that line. I would guess North of Rugby....
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« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2018, 20:52:34 »
The gauge looks a little large. That and the length of the signal arm makes me think Ireland - that and the building too.
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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2018, 21:04:24 »
Quote from: Oxonhutch on August 27, 2018, 20:52:34
The gauge looks a little large. That and the length of the signal arm makes me think Ireland - that and the building too.

Hmmm.  The signalpost bracket is very typical of the GCR» (Gloucester - next trains), and the arm is probably a 5ft one which was fairly standard at the time of the photograph.  The track gauge looks standard to me.
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« Reply #7 on: August 27, 2018, 21:13:48 »
Quote from: SandTEngineer on August 27, 2018, 21:04:24
Quote from: Oxonhutch on August 27, 2018, 20:52:34
The gauge looks a little large. That and the length of the signal arm makes me think Ireland - that and the building too.

Hmmm.  The signalpost bracket is very typical of the GCR» (Gloucester - next trains), and the arm is probably a 5ft one which was fairly standard at the time of the photograph.  The track gauge looks standard to me.

Looks standard to me too ... but I don't have much more.  I tried reverse image searches and got nothing ...
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« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2018, 21:46:29 »
Doesn't look like an island platform of the sort typical on the GC» (Great Central Railway - link to heritage line)
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« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2018, 23:17:55 »
Quote from: Oberon on August 27, 2018, 21:46:29
Doesn't look like an island platform of the sort typical on the GC» (Great Central Railway - link to heritage line)

What makes you think it is an island platform?  The fence both sides of the building with a gate suggests it is not.
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« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2018, 01:05:07 »
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Doesn't look like an island platform of the sort typical on the GC» (Great Central Railway - link to heritage line)

What makes you think it is an island platform?  The fence both sides of the building with a gate suggests it is not.

Er, Oberon said it doesn't look like an island platform.
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« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2018, 01:51:35 »
If it were a non-island platform GC» (Great Central Railway - link to heritage line) London Extension station then that would narrow it down to either Nottingham Arkwright Street or Carrington, and although i might be wrong, i don't think it is either of those.

My initial thought was perhaps somewhere on the Fairford branch line, but again, I can't get a station to match your photo.
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« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2018, 06:23:09 »
Gentlemen, Thank You.   I am learning / have learned from Lisa that historic postcard people suffer their protocols and politics, with one of the hot topics being "do we scan and supply the back of the card". Sadly (and frustratingly) the rear is not available in this case and I suspect the answer I should feed back is a simple "no consensus of opinion / could be lots of places; we might be helped if we knew more, such as what cards it was alongside (was it one of a set) and what was on the back of it").    But - thank you for your thoughts / help.
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« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2018, 07:00:01 »
Over on Twitter Robert Humm and Co run a what station is this competition, which asks people to do just what you are looking for, might be an idea to give it a try .
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« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2018, 07:06:29 »
Quote from: Western Pathfinder on August 28, 2018, 07:00:01
Over on Twitter Robert Humm and Co run a what station is this competition, which asks people to do just what you are looking for, might be an idea to give it a try .

I see those on Facebook too ... I might well pass on the links to Lisa and introduce her to the various groups, letting her judge just how deeply she wishes to get into this particular image. I'm sure someone, somewhere will know!
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