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« Reply #45 on: October 16, 2010, 20:52:23 »
I guess folks need a clue for the final unanswered pic (No. 3)

It's 3rd rail.....
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« Reply #46 on: October 16, 2010, 21:00:06 »
In which case, as a wild guess, somewhere around Portsmouth Harbour (where the track is definitely unballasted and elevated, from memory you can look straight down at the sea from the platform). But I really don't think it looks right for that.
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« Reply #47 on: October 17, 2010, 01:13:37 »
A very wild guess, blakey, but you are (sort of) on the right coastline.....
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« Reply #48 on: October 17, 2010, 04:27:34 »
OK then, with the benefit of (a) the realization that third rail and narrow gauge are not necessarily mutually exclusive, (b) a clue from you good self, and (c) me remembering that you went to Brighton on your travels, how about the Volk's Electric Railway? Although that has a few different stations and I really don't know which one of them it might be!
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« Reply #49 on: October 17, 2010, 04:44:09 »
Well, number 3 was the deliberate difficult one seeing as it wasn't a picture of a particular station. But then I thought the night shot of a 158 (Number 13) would also prove difficult, at least for CfN!!

Well done blakey. The shot of the track on the Volk's Electric Railway was taken a few yards west of Aquarium station:



Incidentally, I couldn't travel on the world's oldest still operating electric railway on the day I was in Brighton as it was closed down until Easter 2011. Was, however, able to buy a '99' from Aquarium Station!


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1. Lelant Saltings. smokey
2. Pewsey. inspector_blakey
3. Volks Electric Railway, Brighton. inspector_blakey (after many hints!!)
4. Bishops Lydeard. TerminalJunkie
5. Platform 4, Bristol Temple Meads. chriselkins
6. Bradford-on-Avon. thetrout
7. Exeter St David's. devon_metro
8. Reading (subway) inspector_blakey
9. Hungerford. amiddl
10. Tilehurst. grahame
11. Severn Beach. ReWind
12. Carbis Bay. amiddl
13. CfN's favourite place! (T**nt*n). thetrout
14. Penzance. old original
15. Newton Abbot. TerminalJunkie
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