Traditional Weekend "where's this?" Quiz

[whole diary]

[grahame]

Yes and Yes - Avonmouth and St Pancras. So remaining, we have just these 4.

4.


5.


8.


16.

[brooklea]

4. Melksham, just north of the station

[stuving]

While clear evidence is scant, I reckon 16 must be Železničná stanica Košice.

[grahame]

While clear evidence is scant, I reckon 16 must be Železničná stanica Košice.

Yes - you never cease to amaze me - that is Košice - which I expected to really stick when I put it in the quiz!

And

4. Melksham, just north of the station

yes - surprising how LONG that one took!

[Merthyr Imp]

8 - Rhymney?

[grahame]

8 - Rhymney?

Yes.  And an admission I had that mislabelled and had it down as Ebbw Vale Town and had to go back to my image library.   I have only spent a few minutes - ever - at Rhymney Station, arriving at an old station with a big and empty stock yard, empty, on one side in an ultramodern train.  An exhilarating run back to Cardiff in what I recall was half the normal time to get back onto schedule; as I recall we regained something like half an hour an it was a classic illustration of the cost of a large number of intermediate stops.

[grahame]

Then there was just one left to identify:

5.

[Western Pathfinder]

That last one looks like its  Irish to me.

[stuving]

That last one looks like its  Irish to me.

Yes it is ... Athlone. A name that, for some of us, belongs forever in a list with with Hilversum, Kalundborg, Allouis, Tirana, and many others (including perhaps Droitwich).

[grahame]

That last one looks like its  Irish to me.

Yes it is ... Athlone. A name that, for some of us, belongs forever in a list with with Hilversum, Kalundborg, Allouis, Tirana, and many others (including perhaps Droitwich).

Yes - although the picture is the RaILWAY station and not the RaDIO station ;-)

[stuving]

Yes - although the picture is the RaILWAY station and not the RaDIO station ;-)

True, though there is a socking great microwave tower less than 200 m away. Nothing to do with the old medium wave transmitter, which is a couple of miles east of he town.

[Mark A]

When is it that Droitwich sees its last transmission, anyone?

Mark

[ChrisB]

Google is your friend.....highlightingg your question & searching google.

The exact switch off date has not been announced, but with the above statement, RadioToday understands it will be in the second quarter of 2024. Posted on Monday, May 29th, 2023 at 9:44 pm

[Mark A]

Google is your friend.....highlightingg your question & searching google.

The exact switch off date has not been announced, but with the above statement, RadioToday understands it will be in the second quarter of 2024. Posted on Monday, May 29th, 2023 at 9:44 pm

Now, you could add an extra twist of lemon to that by pointing people at the following tool - though I'll use this particular search to check if there's a station on the network with the three letter code 'BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page)'.


https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Droitwich+BBC+long+wave+transmitter+end+date

It appears though, that, while someone somewhere will probably know the date, it's not yet found its way on to the Google-searchable web.

Mark

[PrestburyRoad]

That Droitwich long-wave transmitter brings back a memory from the 1970s.

We were travelling on the M5 past Droitwich in the days when car radios had two bands - long-wave and medium-wave.  The radio was tuned to medium-wave but as we went past Droitwich the sound from the radio changed to the long-wave programme.  Eh?, we thought - what's going on here?  After we had got past Droitwich the sound returned to the medium-wave programme.  We assumed that the signal from that big powerful long-wave transmitter had been so strong that it had forced its way into the innards of the radio and had swamped the intermediate frequency used in the radio that the radio usually got from the medium-wave signal.  Oh well, we thought, that's interesting, and no harm done.  We were glad we lived away from Droitwich.