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I'm always struck by the great railway photography tradition of taking pictures of the front of trains, with the train sliding diagonally across the picture into the distance. I recall going to a 150th anniversary celebration of a station (I won't tell you which one) and sitting through 90 minutes of slides, 90% of which were in that genre and not even of the station that we were celebrating (but I admit it was good to see the tadpoles again!).
So ... in the interval between campaigns and serious topics, I'm replacing the pictures at the head of the coffee shop with a set of pictures ... all of which I have taken in the last 4 weeks. They're places as well as railway stuff, but none of them is far from a railway or railway interest, and they're pretty random - but you'll find less 'classic' pictures that usual and more oddballs and you may be able to work out some of the places. Why places? Because people use trains to get to places ... the TransWilts survey of 1600 people found that 1500 would use the service from time to time at the weekend ... for shopping (so I have some shop pictures), for going away on trips (so you have some trip pictures) and for going to the seaside (you'll not find any pictures of me on the beach; it's winter and I'm not completely mad!)
And of course "random" does not mean evenly spread ... no apologies for more pictures of old stomping grounds, no apologies for nighttime pictures of trains at Melksham, and no apologies for pictures way out of FGW▸ land. This railway isn't an isolated engineering wonder - it's a way of getting from A to B, and connecting with other bits of public transport to C and D (and even G and H).
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2011, 11:57:04 » |
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Can you place any of the pictures? ... I'll start with a sprinkling of 10 ... 05.  15.  25.  35.  45.  55.  65.  75.  85.  95.  (Some of these are trivial ... and others float between "impractical" and "impossible") |
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2011, 12:09:15 » |
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15 is BRI»
I meant 25! Same error as last time
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grahame
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2011, 12:11:28 » |
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15 is BRI»
I meant 25! Same error as last time
I was just about to say ....  Indeed ... 25 is Temple Meads. 15 will be almost impossible to guess and I'll be gobsmacked if anyone does! |
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2011, 12:30:24 » |
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Gonna take a stab at 15. The former Chippenham to Calne line?
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2011, 13:43:45 » |
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65 - Wootton Bassett ?
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Tim
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2011, 13:51:15 » |
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95 = Koln?
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grahame
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2011, 14:15:14 » |
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95 = Koln?
Good grief - yes. Do you know the guy? 65 - Wootton Bassett ?
Yes Gonna take a stab at 15. The former Chippenham to Calne line?
Sorry - 15 is really difficult almost impossible. It's somewhere you might be if you go our for a day on a train trip, and isn't an old railway line even though it does look rather like it! |
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2011, 15:29:21 » |
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Just a very lucky guess. I have never been to Koln - my German experience is mainly of Munich, but the photo looks like it is of a sub level of an S-Bahn system (the level between the track and street).
I was going to guess Munich but it doesn't seem Bavarian enough despite the blue and white tiles (no Beer pumps at the counter for a start). It doesn't look like the parts of Berlin I have been to and then recalled that you had travelled though Koln and that it has a 1970s/1980s S-Bahn system of a similar vintage as Munich's.
A wild guess for 85 (in case I am on a roll) would be Dusseldorf (or somewhere else reached by a regional train from Koln)
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2011, 16:39:14 » |
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55. Melksham.   |
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grahame
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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2011, 17:09:33 » |
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A wild guess for 85 (in case I am on a roll) would be Dusseldorf (or somewhere else reached by a regional train from Koln)
Oh my goodness ... yes. It is Dusseldorf. And, yes, 55 is Melksham! |
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2011, 18:42:31 » |
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A wild guess for 85 (in case I am on a roll) would be Dusseldorf (or somewhere else reached by a regional train from Koln)
Oh my goodness ... yes. It is Dusseldorf. Impressive! I was going to guess Elsterwerda based solely on the grounds that it's the only place I've ever changed trains in Germany, and we got from one red Regio train onto another... |
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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2011, 22:13:17 » |
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45 looks a little like Edgware road.. But I'm not 100% convinced?
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« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2011, 06:21:06 » |
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45 looks a little like Edgware road.. But I'm not 100% convinced?
You're right not to be convinced, but you're on the right lines. |
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