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« on: November 20, 2019, 20:09:13 » |
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Out on GWR▸ trains today, as detailed in the catering thread elsewhere on the forum. Finn wasn't allowed to come on the Pullman service, staying back at bobm's place. After collecting him we went for a stroll. Where?  |
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« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2019, 21:01:54 » |
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Hmm... anywhere near a River Avon?
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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2019, 21:12:31 » |
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Hmm... anywhere near a River Avon?
Stones throw... (with a good arm, and over the train!) |
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2019, 21:41:48 » |
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A little elementary detective work tell me you boarded a train today dogless for a substantial train ride with an accomplice from Swindon. I deduct from the picture supplied that you were sometime later reunited with a canine which suggests returning to Swindon.
RS's inspired river Avon discovery, to me, points to the Avon that flows to Bristol, that being the closest. So, to narrow the geography, Wiltshire?
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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2019, 21:44:36 » |
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Hmm... anywhere near a River Avon?
Stones throw... (with a good arm, and over the train!) Suggests Avon, Cliff? |
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2019, 21:47:42 » |
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So, to narrow the geography, Wiltshire?
Just. Although a nearby (former) canal took its name from another county... Suggests Avon, Cliff?
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2019, 22:00:19 » |
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I was going to ask the canal question, extant or resurgent. No need now. Wilts and Berks I presume.
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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2019, 22:03:48 » |
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Hilperton/Holt way?
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« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2019, 22:06:30 » |
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I was going to ask the canal question, extant or resurgent. No need now. Wilts and Berks I presume.
Sorry, no. Wrong canal. I perhaps should add that there was a drive from my dining accomplice's place of residence before this walk. I do like to break up my motoring with comfort breaks... |
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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2019, 22:42:55 » |
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I'm thinking the canal might be the Somerset Coal Canal, suggesting that you were somewhere near Dundas (or as my autocorrect nearly had it, Dundalk)...
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« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2019, 22:45:24 » |
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I was going to ask the canal question, extant or resurgent. No need now. Wilts and Berks I presume.
Sorry, no. Wrong canal. P Somersetshire (sic) Coal Canal, so somewhere near Dundas Aqueduct? |
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« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2019, 22:47:46 » |
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White rabbits.
Limpley Stoke?
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« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2019, 22:53:11 » |
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Much scratching of head going on. The canal bit had thrown me but then I remembered that I'm a member of the Somersetshire Coal Canal Society and the Limpley Stoke Valley springs to mind.
Edit: Looks like I was just beaten to it.
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« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2019, 23:04:31 » |
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We're there. I'll give it as a three way tie between Jonty Mort, johnneyw and Red Squirrel. With grahame mentioned in dispatches. Finn in the opening photo was by the former Limpley Stoke station, which is near Dundalk Dundas Aquaduct. I've passed this former station (now in private hands) on trains through the Avon Valley many times, but never seen what it looks like from the village side. Being above the road through the village there's not much to see.  (Back side of running in board and former station building) After taking that photo, Finn and I retired to the delightfully named Brassknocker Basin, which is the only remaining navigable stretch of the Somersetshire Coal Canal, just outside Limpley Stoke. This stretch of water is now an extended mooring off the main line of the Kennet & Avon Canal. On this canal cul-de-sac is a very nice cafe - The Angelfish - where I had my coffee break on the drive home from Swindon to Templecombe.  (In the distance, beyond the shallow arch canopy over the water, is where the Somersetshire Coal Canal continued under the A36 into Somerset proper. Now blocked off.) |
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« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2019, 23:17:35 » |
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You may (all) know this already, but I would recommend a walk along the old Combe Hay flight of locks on the Somersetshire Coal Canal. As a wizened old waterway hack there are not many places that have surprised me... but that was one. There's a remarkable amount surviving for a canal that hasn't been navigable since c. 1900.
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