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« Reply #210 on: December 19, 2018, 09:40:12 »
Quote from: grahame on December 19, 2018, 08:03:04
Why does that run round loop at Aberystwyth "fly" so far from the platform line?

So people in the train can see it, rather than have it block the view?
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« Reply #211 on: December 19, 2018, 10:42:43 »
Quote from: stuving on December 19, 2018, 09:40:12
Quote from: grahame on December 19, 2018, 08:03:04
Why does that run round loop at Aberystwyth "fly" so far from the platform line?

So people in the train can see it, rather than have it block the view?

And because since it replaced a set of standard gauge lines there was plenty of space. 
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« Reply #212 on: December 20, 2018, 01:37:41 »
Thursday 20th December 2018 - the Coffee Shop Advent Quiz.

20.1 - Where was this picture taken?

20.2 - And in which year?

20.3 Where was this picture taken?
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« Reply #213 on: December 20, 2018, 01:51:10 »
20.1 Worcester Shrub Hill
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« Reply #214 on: December 20, 2018, 06:15:15 »
20.3 I would guess you were either going to or returning from one of your many jaunts to foreign exotic cliimes when you took this one Grahame.
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« Reply #215 on: December 20, 2018, 07:57:05 »
Quote from: Oxman on December 20, 2018, 01:51:10
20.1 Worcester Shrub Hill

Definitely - you can almost see my house.

Year? Before the current foul-up of the signalling. 1968?
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« Reply #216 on: December 20, 2018, 09:08:42 »
20.3 I can only think of it being Gatwick Airport.
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« Reply #217 on: December 20, 2018, 09:23:32 »
20.1 - correct, Worcester Shrub Hill.

20.3 - correct, Gatwick Airport .. but NOT on a frequent trip to exotic foreign climes .. I rarely fly anywhere these days! Guessing without going back through my library that it was on my way back from Aalborg in Denmark which though pleasant enough is not really exotic!!
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« Reply #218 on: December 20, 2018, 09:42:31 »
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19.2 2011?

Bump...
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« Reply #219 on: December 20, 2018, 15:23:02 »
Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 20, 2018, 09:42:31
Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 19, 2018, 09:02:44
19.2 2011?

Bump...

I felt that bump.   Wait - that's 'cos I'm on the bus in Bath.  Will check when I get home.
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« Reply #220 on: December 20, 2018, 16:48:46 »
Quote from: grahame on December 20, 2018, 15:23:02
Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 20, 2018, 09:42:31
Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 19, 2018, 09:02:44
19.2 2011?

Bump...

I felt that bump.   Wait - that's 'cos I'm on the bus in Bath.  Will check when I get home.

23rd My 2012 ... 11:20 in the morning!
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« Reply #221 on: December 20, 2018, 17:06:31 »
Quote from: grahame on December 20, 2018, 16:48:46
Quote from: grahame on December 20, 2018, 15:23:02
Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 20, 2018, 09:42:31
Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 19, 2018, 09:02:44
19.2 2011?

Bump...

I felt that bump.   Wait - that's 'cos I'm on the bus in Bath.  Will check when I get home.

23rd My 2012 ... 11:20 in the morning!

Tsk!
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« Reply #222 on: December 20, 2018, 22:39:03 »
Quote from: grahame on December 20, 2018, 09:23:32
20.1 - correct, Worcester Shrub Hill.

20.3 - correct, Gatwick Airport ..

It was the platform number that gave it away for me, or to be more precise, the yellow number on a black background.
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« Reply #223 on: December 21, 2018, 01:15:07 »
Friday 21st December 2018 - the Coffee Shop Advent Quiz.

21.1 - Where was this picture taken?

21.2 - And in which year?

21.3 Where was this picture taken?
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« Reply #224 on: December 21, 2018, 01:33:12 »
21.1 is Calne with the DMU▸ (Diesel Multiple Unit) just departing towards Chippenham.
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