A Christmas quiz - twelve days of Christmas

[whole diary]

[grahame]

The SWT^▸ (South West Trains) contribution is 8 car all day 7/7, except for the last train from Waterloo (Mon - Sat) which are single 450s. The Reading route 458s are made up into 8 car sets semi-permanently .

Paul

Thanks - shows how little I've looked across at that service in the past.   I'll come back and update my calculations when any other error have been notified to me - I suspect some of the other figures may be out too, but not that dramatically!


Here are the remaining pictures to identify during the final day:

1,2
6
7,9
10,11

[Brucey]

Was number 1 taken at Avoncliff?

[grahame]

Was number 1 taken at Avoncliff?

Yes, it was

[Tim]

Number 2 is Thingley sidings between Box tunnel and Chippenham??

I think that the derelict stock has long gone

[grahame]

Number 2 is Thingley sidings between Box tunnel and Chippenham??

I think that the derelict stock has long gone

Yes, you're right.   The pictures are all taken within the last five years - you'll see old paint jobs too, as well as those wrecks - it's quite a surprise how much has changed!

[Mookiemoo]

Is 6 Bristol Temple Meads?  The arch thing looks like paddington but its not paddington and I thought BTM^▸ (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI)) was very similar in design.  But then I've never been to BTM so I have no clue

[Tim]

Is 6 Bristol Temple Meads?  The arch thing looks like paddington but its not paddington and I thought BTM^▸ (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI)) was very similar in design.  But then I've never been to BTM so I have no clue

I assume you mean 9 and I think you are right.  The barrier tapes would be in the right possition for the station exit and I think they were used before the automatic barriers were installed.

[grahame]

No.4 - already guessed correctly was Bristol Temple Meads.   Neither 6 nor 9 is Temple Meads (they're not anywhere else in Bristol either!) ... but I can see the similarity.

Most, but not all, of the easy ones have been guessed correctly already 

[eightf48544]

9 Edinburgh (Haymarket)? First Scotrail livery

10 is in TV, turbo and OMO^▸ (One Man Operated) mirror Maidenhead Platform 1?

[grahame]

9 Edinburgh (Haymarket)? First Scotrail livery

10 is in TV, turbo and OMO^▸ (One Man Operated) mirror Maidenhead Platform 1?

Sorry - neither of those is correct.   I don't think (9) *is* Scotrail livery ... the train certainly wasn't running a Scotrail service

[Tim]

having just realised that we are not necessaily operating in FGW^▸ (First Great Western)-land and that scotland is a possibility, I can say fairly confidently that No 11 is a pier of the Forth Bridge.

[Tim]

[quote author=grahame link=topic=5982.msg58896#msg58896 date=1262706135

Sorry - neither of those is correct.   I don't think (9) *is* Scotrail livery ... the train certainly wasn't running a Scotrail service
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I think it is a Transpennine Express livery (from the pre-First days), which would make Newcastle or York possibilities but the roof just doesn't seem right or it could be a TPE^▸ (Trans Pennine Express) station I haven't been too like Hull or Huddersfield?

[Tim]

is no. 7 Trowbridge?  It does have a modernish building like that (in a similar brown style to platform 1 of Didcot IIRC^▸ (if I recall/remember/read correctly))

[grahame]

having just realised that we are not necessaily operating in FGW^▸ (First Great Western)-land and that scotland is a possibility, I can say fairly confidently that No 11 is a pier of the Forth Bridge.

It is indeed, at South Queensferry.  Of the twelve pictures we started with, 9 are within what I would describe as "FGW-land"; the question stated that they're all in "Great Britain" so I have not included any of the pictures I took in Northern Ireland last year 

[grahame]

is no. 7 Trowbridge?  It does have a modernish building like that (in a similar brown style to platform 1 of Didcot IIRC^▸ (if I recall/remember/read correctly))

Yes, it is!