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« Reply #75 on: November 30, 2010, 11:57:07 »

73 is the monstrosity that is Newport

Yes ... and I'm so glad I'm not the only one who was underwhelmed.

I was there on Friday and underwhelmed is the right word.  The new stuff is fine as far as it goes and in terms of lifts and bridges it is an improvement, but as a whole station it is lacking.  It was cold miles away from the platform buildings and cramped (only space for three ticket windows, two ticket machines and 3 automatic gates (1 or 2 of which will be set to no entry) hardly shows ambition for a growing railway. 
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« Reply #76 on: November 30, 2010, 18:19:51 »

17 - Not sure, but I have a feeling it could be Bristol Temple Meads?
48 - Trowbridge
49 - Trowbridge
69 - 158?
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« Reply #77 on: December 02, 2010, 10:08:54 »

70 is reading platform 4 - stood there so often it is unmistakeable
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« Reply #78 on: December 02, 2010, 12:41:43 »

70 is reading platform 4 - stood there so often it is unmistakeable

Don't think so ...

http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/seventy/timb70.jpg



17 - Not sure, but I have a feeling it could be Bristol Temple Meads?
48 - Trowbridge
49 - Trowbridge
69 - 158?

Yes - all correct; and you'll not guess that the 158 was taken in the Severn Tunnel, I don't suppose Wink

I was wondering which really observant member would get No. 17 .... special congratulations on that one
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« Reply #79 on: December 02, 2010, 13:30:37 »

70 is reading platform 4 - stood there so often it is unmistakeable

Don't think so ...

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I think number 70 has a few thousand less trains per week than Reading. Is it Pilning?
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« Reply #80 on: December 02, 2010, 13:45:54 »

Yes ... 70 is Pilning; thought I had confirmed that a couple of days back, but looking back I didn't.

Also 17 - Not Reading, but BTM (Bristol Temple Meads (strictly, it should be BRI) but BTM is a commonly used alternative)); 48 and 49, Trowbridge, 69 is in a 158

Which - I think (E&OE) leaves ...

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« Reply #81 on: December 02, 2010, 13:48:28 »

Is 80 between Salisbury station and Salisbury tunnel?
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« Reply #82 on: December 02, 2010, 15:17:53 »

76 is an arriva train so I'll guess Chester

78 is a misery rail station and since I know where you were going, I'm going to guess Liverpool central, moorstreet, lime street under ground or james street
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« Reply #83 on: December 02, 2010, 15:33:17 »

Is 80 between Salisbury station and Salisbury tunnel?

I thought it was between Cardiff and Newport
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« Reply #84 on: December 02, 2010, 16:00:17 »

82 is a leaf from something old and common.
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« Reply #85 on: December 02, 2010, 17:49:34 »

Is 67 the stub of the old Midland route into Bristol, near Yate / Westerleigh Junction?
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« Reply #86 on: December 02, 2010, 18:00:15 »

We're down to the really tough ones ... I'm going to tell you the "impossible" ones (this was set up, you may recall, to change the gallery at the page top with "lighter side competition" as only a secondary aim, so I didn't consider "how easy is this"?)

34, 35, 87 and 88 are all at the same place (taken within a mile), and as far as I can see it's a place that hasn't come up as a mention in this thread.

76 ... I'll couldn't have denied "Arriva train from Chester" if you had suggested that ... but it's actually towards the end of the long southbound run from there.  It's somewhere around Cwmbran - and if there *had* been anything through the windows. Mookiemoo would have been the one to spot it as it used to be one of here "stomping grounds".

78 is not Liverpool, thought not far off.  And those were wild guesses ... Liverpool Central Low Level, at least, looks nothing like this and that's from me just having a quick wikipedia look.

80 - the specific South Wales suggestion is wrong - but only a short distance out.  Salisbury is wildly out.

82 - It's Giles's Wood, Melksham ... very hard to find good online references. 18 years ago Freddie Giles, who's a remarkable local person, started planting a mixed wood on his land, and opened it to the public.  I don't think he's trying to keep himself secret - he's written and published a book, darn it, but he's hard to find on line.   I have parked a little at http://www.wellho.net/share/gileswood.html

66, 67, 81 and 89 - of the remaining pictures - are the ones that I might have expected to have gone much earlier.  27 we had a bit of a discussion already but no-one made any definite enough suggestion as I recall;   these signs are all over the place if you look; I pictured some more at Chippenham the other night (so it's certainly not sleeper boarding!).  And 37 is so cropped that you might only get it by finding the same people in other nearby pictures.

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Is 67 the stub of the old Midland route into Bristol, near Yate / Westerleigh Junction?

Sorry - no  Undecided

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« Reply #87 on: December 02, 2010, 18:14:02 »

in that case 78 - Birkenhead?  Snce that is where you would have got the ferry from

I admit I have not been on misery rail since I left for uni in 1993
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« Reply #88 on: December 02, 2010, 18:32:54 »

67. The Henbury Loop line looking toward the A38 Gloucester Road near Patchway.
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« Reply #89 on: December 02, 2010, 19:30:44 »

81.  Kennet & Avon Canal.

89.  Melksham - roundabout in town centre.  Wink
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