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« on: August 14, 2010, 22:51:37 »
Here are some pictures from my latest day out.  They are not in any particular order of travel, and while I haven't obscured anything within the photos, I have cropped a couple of them, just to omit 'spoiler' details!

May I ask that we please observe our usual rule: one guess each, for the first 24 hours - just to give everyone else a chance?  Thanks!

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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2010, 22:55:21 »
12. Lisieux's twin town?
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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2010, 22:59:54 »
Correct, mon brave!  12 is Taunton.  Grin

There is a certain irony on that one, as grahame posted a picture of that very same platform ramp, albeit in a rather different configuration, in a previous quiz - and it caught me out (yet again!).

C.  Roll Eyes
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2010, 23:05:54 »
I really should've used my guess on one of the others rather than bluddy Taunton!   Roll Eyes Smiley

<stands on one leg, touches knee three times>*

*A superstitious ritual that I now do each time that station features on the forum.
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« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2010, 23:10:01 »
Yes; in terms of tactics, I was rather startled when you answered that one first!  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2010, 00:10:24 »
According to my GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) atlas 274 miles (no 6) is Bodmin Parkway.
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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2010, 00:16:22 »
Thanks, eightf48544!  Actually, I assume you mean picture 5  - in which case, you are correct!  Wink

Would you care to expand on your answer - in terms of what's in the background?
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2010, 00:20:04 »
I assumme that it is Mark 1 in blood and custard belonging to the Bodmin and Wenford Railway.

In summer of 59 I had a footplte ride on a 45XX from Bodmin Road to Wadebridge. Running round in Bodmin (General). For a tiny station General seems a bit pretentious.
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« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2010, 00:22:06 »
Exactly that!  Wink Cheesy Grin
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« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2010, 07:31:48 »
Nos 2 and 11, Par, 8 Truro, 9 Lostwithiel, 10 Falmouth ??
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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2010, 08:00:37 »
Referee? Foul!!

I make that 5 guesses from jester.  Shocked Grin
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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2010, 08:25:01 »
6 Exeter St Davids
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2010, 08:34:34 »
3 Taunton.  The old bay platforms for trains coming from Minehead.  Now for a bonus point if anyone can tell me what the little bit of fencing is for just above where the buffers would have been.  Cant imagine what for.
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2010, 08:42:33 »
No idea on the fencing but surely that pic is a candidate for the Railway Eye Railway Garden Competition!
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2010, 09:42:43 »
No 4 is Truro, more information, it's the masonary surpport of the Black footbridge that crosses over the West end of the platforms.
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