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Author Topic: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places?  (Read 4076 times)
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« Reply #15 on: February 18, 2021, 14:36:55 »

10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham.
I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest.
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« Reply #16 on: February 18, 2021, 15:56:04 »

10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham.
I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest.


Curses ! I was on the right track (quite literally !) - there is a very similar green bridge, in a cutting, at Corsham. Close examination on Street View showed it not be that one............I should have followed the line a bit further.
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« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2021, 16:04:08 »

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7 Correctly located to British Isles.

Following up on this, close examination of the photograph shows a unit number is 29127.  Wikipedia has an entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_29000_Class and that fits with the British Isles.  But I've no knowledge of railway stations on the island of Ireland so I'll let others identify the location.
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« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2021, 18:52:06 »

10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham.
I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest.


Yes - no fraud, especially as other have had plenty of time.  I probably should have fuzzed the signal number.

Three left to identify

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« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2021, 19:00:45 »

No6.is the memorial at Glasgow Central Station it's at the concourse end of Platform One.
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« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2021, 19:35:15 »

10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham.
I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest.


These photo quizzes used to be much easier when Graham would leave the GPS metadata in the photos. He doesn't do that any more. Shame.  Grin Grin
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« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2021, 20:15:26 »

3 is a cruise ship, probably a smaller one, possibly Fred Olsen.  Oh did you want the port? - well it's not Wellington (New Zealand) but a smaller city somewhere.
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« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2021, 20:27:38 »

3 is a cruise ship, probably a smaller one, possibly Fred Olsen.  Oh did you want the port? - well it's not Wellington (New Zealand) but a smaller city somewhere.

Yes, about half the population of Wellington.  Not Fred Olson, but, agreed now one of the huge ships.  Now - bear in mind that they are all my pictures from the last 18 months or so and that I have posted pretty openly about where we have been.
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« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2021, 20:53:21 »

Is 3 St John's Newfoundland, rounding the headland near Signal Hill?
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« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2021, 21:53:46 »

No6.is the memorial at Glasgow Central Station it's at the concourse end of Platform One.

Indeed. Makes you stop and reflect, that one

Is 3 St John's Newfoundland, rounding the headland near Signal Hill?

Spot on.

Just 7 to go.   Ireland correctly identified.   Which station, anyone?
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« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2021, 08:11:35 »

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Spot on!

Quiz completed.  We have a very wide range of geographic knowledge here (and some excellent online researchers  Grin )
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