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« on: April 18, 2010, 21:24:08 »
Jo's Cycle Rack has encouraged me to post pictures from this week - 7 different locations. Nothing to do with trains, save that I looked at using public transport for a whole load of my travel, but in the end was only on and off a public vehicle five times, and they accounted for a tiny proportion of my travel time.















Clue ... 4 in definite FGW▸ (First Great Western) territory, 2 almost in, and one certainly not!
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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 21:58:53 »
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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2010, 22:43:17 »
Quote from: relex109 on April 18, 2010, 21:58:53
6 portishead

GOOD Guess  Grin ... but no.  There are some similarities
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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2010, 00:04:19 »
4.  Semington.  (A very long shot - on the Kennet & Avon Canal)?  Roll Eyes

6.  Melksham ...  Huh
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2010, 00:26:03 »
7.  Bath?

(By the way, everyone: I know where grahame has been for most of the past week - and I'm not finding this any easier, despite any suggestions that I must have 'inside information'! Shocked )

C.  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2010, 01:17:29 »
7. Trowbridge Park
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« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2010, 01:21:41 »
Good shout, bignosemac: I wasn't at all convinced by my own suggestion!  Embarrassed
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« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2010, 02:00:18 »
1. 'Departures' Dublin (Airport)

I won't 'guess' any more........ the information is out there........
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2010, 02:06:08 »
Well, I was avoiding answering the Dublin one, obviously ...  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2010, 02:10:59 »
... and, after dredging through my memories of narrowboat holidays on the K&A, I don't think 4 is Semington, after all.  Lips sealed
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2010, 02:13:36 »
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Clue ... 4 in definite FGW▸ (First Great Western) territory, 2 almost in, and one certainly not!

Pic one may not be in FGW territory but you could argue it is 'First Group' territory. (But then, where isn't these days?!)  Grin

http://www.firstgroup.com/corporate/our_company/aircoach.php
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2010, 03:55:11 »
Correctly identified - no. 1 is Dublin, no. 6 is Melksham and no. 7 is Trowbridge
Correctly unidentified - no. 4 is not Semington nor elsewhere on the K&A. (nor is no. 5, which you probably meant)

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1. 'Departures' Dublin (Airport)

I won't 'guess' any more........ the information is out there........

Indeed - most of it is;  this one can be done by research for the most part. 

I'm off to Cambridge now to take some more "where is this" mysteries  Wink
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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2010, 08:14:04 »
4 - I think there's a cottage like that in Stratford upon Avon, on the Banbury Road.
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« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2010, 18:34:42 »
Quote from: Worcester_Passenger on April 19, 2010, 08:14:04
4 - I think there's a cottage like that in Stratford upon Avon, on the Banbury Road.

There might be ... but I've not been anywhere near S-o-A.   Now ?-o-A might be another matter for one of the pictures.
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