AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

Travel & transport from BBC stories as at 05:35 18 Apr 2025

- US lays out plans to hit Chinese ships with port fees

Read about the forum [here].
Register [here] - it's free.
What do I gain from registering? [here]

[whole diary]

10/05/25 - BRTA Westbury
10/05/25 - Model Railsay Show, Calne
13/05/25 - Melksham TUG / AGM
14/05/25 - West Wiltshire RUG

On this day
18th Apr (1966)

Melksham Station closed (link)

• • • • • • Site Style 1 2 3 4
Next departures • Bristol Temple Meads • Bath Spa • Chippenham • Swindon • Didcot Parkway • Reading • London Paddington • Melksham
Exeter St Davids • Taunton • Westbury • Trowbridge • Bristol Parkway • Cardiff Central • Oxford • Cheltenham Spa • Birmingham New Street

April 18, 2025, 05:50:39

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Most recently liked subjects
[277] Fifteen years of the Transwilts CRP
[117] Spreading wings for a few days
[56] West Somerset Railway - Bishops Lydeard to Minehead (merged po...
[53] St Erth station - facilities, footbridge, improvements, incide...
[43] 2025 - Service update and amendment log, Swindon <-> Westbury...
[28] Oxford station - facilities, improvements, parking, incidents ...

News: A forum for passengers ... with input from rail professionals welcomed too

Home

Help

Calendar

Great Western Coffee Shop > Sideshoots - associated subjects > The Lighter Side > AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

Pages: [1] 2 3

« previous next »

Author

Topic: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face? (Read 5798 times)

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43838

AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« on: December 02, 2024, 00:31:01 »

Rows 1 to 5, columns A to E. Maximum 2 each please (today) 2nd December as there's an awful lot of these! If you're on a small screen, all the images unfolded are at https://www.wellho.info/pix/wq00.jpg


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

Chris from Nailsea

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 19541

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2024, 00:38:43 »

Row 2, column C: Richard Trevithick (13 April 1771 – 22 April 1833) Wink

There are several others there who I sussed out straight away, but I'll give everyone else a chance first. Grin


	Logged

William Huskisson MP^▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.

PrestburyRoad

Transport Scholar
Sr. Member

Posts: 246

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2024, 03:56:51 »

Row 1, column 5: our very own Mark Hopwood if I'm not very much mistaken. His face is fresh in my memory from watching Geoff Marshall's recent YouTube video of the Marlow branch starring Geoff, Mark and the branch's signalling technology.


	Logged

PhilWakely

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 2164

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2024, 06:40:14 »

Row 3 Column 4: Dr Richard Beeching;
Row 5 Column 3: Richard Branson.


	Logged

ChrisB

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 13321

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2024, 07:34:50 »

2E is Jane Jones
4E is Christian Wolmar


	Logged

eightonedee

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 1797

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2024, 07:53:28 »

1C Oliver Bulleid
3B Sir Nigel Gresley


	Logged

Red Squirrel

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 5501

There are some who call me... Tim

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2024, 08:03:29 »

Ok:
3E David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA
5B Peter Hendy


	Logged

Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43838

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2024, 08:23:48 »

Quote from: eightonedee on December 02, 2024, 07:53:28

1C Oliver Bulleid
3B Sir Nigel Gresley

Slight typo in one of those? But impressive knowledge of some of the historic faces


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43838

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2024, 08:31:21 »

I have set myself a real challenge in umpiring the answers here, haven't I?

Here is the original graphic with a green dot added on each correctly identified so far to help you check whether a person has been identified; full listing to follow at the end?


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

eightonedee

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 1797

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2024, 09:12:03 »

Oh, there seems to be a different layout on my smartphone screen. Mark H is in a row on his own.

Sir Nigel is just to the left of Trevithick


	Logged

Red Squirrel

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 5501

There are some who call me... Tim

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2024, 09:30:15 »

I’m going to bet a fiver that no one gets A2…


	Logged

Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.

grahame

Administrator
Hero Member

Posts: 43838

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2024, 09:42:06 »

Quote from: eightonedee on December 02, 2024, 09:12:03

Oh, there seems to be a different layout on my smartphone screen. Mark H is in a row on his own.

Sir Nigel is just to the left of Trevithick

Ah - screen width and you are correct then. See https://www.wellho.info/pix/wq00.jpg for the alternative smartphone layout.


	Logged

Coffee Shop Admin, Chair of Melksham Rail User Group, TravelWatch SouthWest Board Member

stuving

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 7423

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2024, 10:22:12 »

2D is Sir Daniel Gooch
3A is Lord (Andrew) Adonis


	Logged

DR7835

Jr. Member

Posts: 29

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2024, 10:29:58 »

B4 = Daniel Gooch,
D3 = Rev. Wilbert Awdry

oops. Mixed up using letters for rows and number for columns! What I meant was:-

2D = Daniel Gooch,
4C = Rev. Wilbert Awdry


« Last Edit: December 02, 2024, 10:39:17 by DR7835 »	Logged

johnneyw

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 2527

From station to station, back to Bristol city....

Re: AQ02 - you'll know the name but can you place the face?

« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2024, 10:31:08 »

Row 4, Col C: Rev W Awdry
Row 5, Col D: Jenny Agutter


	Logged

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1] 2 3

« previous next »

Jump to:

This forum is provided by customers of Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western), and the views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that the content provided by one of our posters contravenes our posting rules via admin@railcustomer.info. Full legal statement (here).

Jump to top of page • Jump to Forum Home Page