Wezis?

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[TerminalJunkie]

You got a gold star for Carlisle ... then rather tarnished it

Cheapskate. Pure gold doesn't tarnish

[Chris from Nailsea]

I'm not sure we're really talking 'gold rush' here, though?

As grahame's post explained, his picture was of the railway station at Carlisle, Pennsylvania: relex109's picture was of the railway station at New Carlisle, Quebec - about 1,000 miles apart!

Sorry, chaps! 

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

anyway i like this game... can we have another wezis?? pleaseeee

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

try this one :0)

[Chris from Nailsea]

I know - but I've 'cheated', so I won't post the answer here. 

Interesting to see if anyone else knows, though?

Chris 

[Phil]

Rose Hill?

[6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01]

i knew i should have rehosted the image!! but chris you thought it was marple :-) phil it was rose hill did you recognise it or use the 'method'

graham may take my gold star away now!

[Chris from Nailsea]

but chris you thought it was marple :-)

No, sorry, relex109: I didn't think it was Marple: I knew it was 'Rose Hill Station 1962' - see http://www.marple-uk.com/railways/c13_01.htm

Chris 

[Phil]

i knew i should have rehosted the image!! but chris you thought it was marple :-) phil it was rose hill did you recognise it or use the 'method'

I like to think of it more as "research"

I wouldn't have stood a cat's chance in **** otherwise - I struggle to identify old photos of stations I knew well as a lad (Wells, Winscombe, Cheddar etc) let alone places in other parts of the country, other than in the broadest of terms (distinctive Midlands region platform furniture, etc)

[Lee]

I wouldn't have stood a cat's chance in **** otherwise - I struggle to identify old photos of stations I knew well as a lad (Wells, Winscombe, Cheddar etc) let alone places in other parts of the country, other than in the broadest of terms (distinctive Midlands region platform furniture, etc)

The link below might be up your street, Phil.
http://www.raildocuments.org.uk/gwpast/clevedoncheddarmartockyeovil1963tt.pdf

[grahame]

anyway i like this game... can we have another wezis?? pleaseeee

OK ... but most of the ones I have taken recently will be VERY difficult ... however, at the risk of starting an uprising of members who feel it's too far away I offer you ...







I'll make it a bit easier by telling you that all three pictures are taken within a few hundred yards of each other.  If you get them, here's one you'll really battle to get the address of 

[Chris from Nailsea]

Erm ... Gettysburg ... 

... and, No, I didn't 'cheat' - it's a reference to Abraham Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address' 

[grahame]

Erm ... Gettysburg ... 

... and, No, I didn't 'cheat' - it's a reference to Abraham Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address' 

Yes indeed, the lower picture is Gettysburg - the original station track lay along the area of difference coloured (sleeper like) floor slabs, and was a single terminal ptalform at which Lincoln arrived in Novermber 1863 to give the Gettysburg address, just 4 months after the battle of Gettysburg.

In those days, trains were "run around" by the use of a gravity siding, with the carriage(s) pushed up into a sloping siding, the engine run out of the way and the coaches allowed to run back into the platform.  They have a model to show it:



Didn't I read that the same system was still in use at Maiden Newton on the Weymouth line - for the Bridport branch train - as late as the 1950s?

[eightf48544]

I believe it was  used at Yelverton for the Princetown trains and also at Holywell.

It was still being done in the goods yard at Waddon in 1964. The 33 arrived from Norwood Yard backed its train over the crossover into the head shunt and was locked in. The loco accelerated forwards the shunter uncoupled the wagons and pulled the points after teh loc passed so the loco went one way the wagons the other. Another lost art of railway working.

[grahame]

The first three pictures (than no-one has guessed!) were taken at Harpers Ferry in Jefferson County, West Virginia. Harpers Ferry is situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet. It is well known for John Brown's raid on the Armoury in 1859 which was a spark priot to the American Civil War (thus my comment about the uprising).

There's quite a history of crossings of the Potomac here ...

Ferry 1747 - 1824
Timber Road Bridge 1824 - circa 1851
Bollman Truss Road and Rail Bridge 1851 - Circa 1865 (Destoyed in Civil war)
Second Bollman Truss Bridge 1870 - 1936 (swept away by flood)
Platt Truss and Plate Girder 1894 - present
Deck Plate Girder bridge 1930 - present


Almost reads as complex as the history of lighthiouses on the Eddystone Roack, doesn't it?