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« Reply #165 on: January 05, 2010, 22:31:12 »

However blakey I concur with your guess of Norwich for pic 9.

Yes, you're right ... it's Norwich!

6 - Winslow or thereabouts? Huh

Welcome to the forum, trainbus and - gosh, I'm sorry - it's not on the Oxford / Cambridge.   Good guess if you've seen my pictures / posts from than line too ....
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« Reply #166 on: January 05, 2010, 22:33:41 »

So that leaves ....


6 (hard one, this ...)

10 (I'm surprised this one hasn't gone!)
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« Reply #167 on: January 05, 2010, 22:44:11 »

Well I can't see that anyone has tried the Portishead branch for No 6,  so I'll give that a go. Though I'm not optimistic as you say it's hard, and Portishead is too obvious.
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« Reply #168 on: January 05, 2010, 23:12:13 »

Hang on a minute...10 looks like it could be the north end of the down platform at Oxford...

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Second thoughts, scratch that. Oxford doesn't have a DOO (Driver-Only Operation (that is, trains which operate without carrying a guard)) mirror like this platform seems to.
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« Reply #169 on: January 05, 2010, 23:26:42 »

Neither Portishead nor Oxford ... sorry about that  Grin
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« Reply #170 on: January 06, 2010, 00:52:45 »

Hang on a minute...10 looks like it could be the north end of the down platform at Oxford...

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Second thoughts, scratch that. Oxford doesn't have a DOO (Driver-Only Operation (that is, trains which operate without carrying a guard)) mirror like this platform seems to.

I had thought myself but after getting it wrong twice.....
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« Reply #171 on: January 06, 2010, 06:21:45 »

Number 6 is a tricky one - it's the Stoke-on-Trent to Leek line ... Photographed, April, 2007

http://www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk/mcr/index.htm
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http://www.geograph.org.uk/gallery/dismantled_disused_derelict_and_mothballed_ex_railways_6461
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« Reply #172 on: January 06, 2010, 06:22:28 »

And for No. 10 try the Berks and Hants ...
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« Reply #173 on: January 06, 2010, 07:46:53 »

Once no. 10 is guessed can we see larger versions of the pictures grahame? I hava a particular anal interest in the Class 158 unit at Norwich..... Grin
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« Reply #174 on: January 06, 2010, 07:53:58 »

Once no. 10 is guessed can we see larger versions of the pictures grahame? I hava a particular anal interest in the Class 158 unit at Norwich..... Grin

Oh goodness ... I'll have to search around again ... but I'll see what I can do with the Norwich stuff
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« Reply #175 on: January 06, 2010, 09:00:36 »

Once no. 10 is guessed can we see larger versions of the pictures grahame? I hava a particular anal interest in the Class 158 unit at Norwich..... Grin

Oh goodness ... I'll have to search around again ... but I'll see what I can do with the Norwich stuff

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« Reply #176 on: January 06, 2010, 10:31:43 »

Now you point it out 6 is obvious.

Know it well from the Caldon Canal (in my opinion the prettiest canal in England) where the line runs parrallel and crosses the canal in a couple of places. Is this taken from the canal bridge on the Leek branch?

Considerably less greenage from when I last saw it.

Like Norwich pictures. Weren't you cahsed off ?

Well I was partly right saying 10 was TV the DOO (Driver-Only Operation (that is, trains which operate without carrying a guard)) mirror and 166 being the clue, but seems it really Kennet Valley but still OMO (One Man Operated) 166s.
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« Reply #177 on: January 06, 2010, 19:04:15 »

I'm going to give you number 10 and close the Christmas Quiz ... it's at H......























Hungerford!
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« Reply #178 on: January 06, 2010, 21:26:59 »

Believe it or not, Graham, I was going to suggest Hungerford last night. Honestly! I even had Google Earth loaded to try and confirm my suspicions! Then something else must have distracted me...

Anyway, many thanks for a thought provoking Xmas quiz.
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« Reply #179 on: January 07, 2010, 06:50:50 »

Believe it or not, Graham, I was going to suggest Hungerford last night. Honestly! I even had Google Earth loaded to try and confirm my suspicions! Then something else must have distracted me...

Anyway, many thanks for a thought provoking Xmas quiz.

My pleasure ... it was good fun for me too.
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