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« on: March 02, 2010, 20:19:12 »

Spring is come,
It's time to travel again.
Let's have some fun ...
Can you tell me where and when

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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2010, 20:32:24 »

Wartminster?
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« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2010, 20:34:52 »

The details shown in photo 4 are clearly Warminster.   Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2010, 21:11:19 »

Wartminster?

A bit too much T, but otherwise correctt.
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« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2010, 22:47:56 »

Thanks, grahame!  Grin

As a matter of interest, where was photo 2 taken?  It has some suggestion of being an old canal route about it - but there wasn't a canal at Warminster, so I'm rather puzzled.  Embarrassed
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« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2010, 22:59:08 »

And apologies for my typo..... not meant as a slight on the fine town of Warminster. Grin
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2010, 23:55:23 »

Chippenham
Avoncliff
Melksham?
Warminster
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« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2010, 05:45:27 »

Chippenham
Avoncliff
Melksham?
Warminster

Chippenham - YES
Avoncliff - YES
Melksham? - NO
Warminster - YES

Well done there - it's surprising just how much more difficult it is to identify pictures when they're taken even a short distance from the station.  The Warminster picture was taken on Monday, just outside the station.  Avoncilff and Chippenham were taken within a couple of hundred yards of the station - the History Centre in Chippehnam, and under the Avoncliff Aquaduct on the Kennet and Avon Canal - both yesterday.  The remaining picture was also taken yesterday, and close by a station.
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« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2010, 06:03:24 »

Freshford?
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« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2010, 07:01:46 »

Freshford?

Yes - that's correct.

Here's a picture that might have made it rather easier



and it was good to see a station in fine condition and with useful information about the area on a notice on the platform, in a place where people who are just arriving for the first time will spot it.



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