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Chris from Nailsea
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« on: May 09, 2011, 18:20:26 » |
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Just one clue - and it will probably go within minutes  :  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ 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.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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inspector_blakey
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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2011, 01:18:16 » |
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8 hours and counting... FWIW▸ I haven't got the first clue!  |
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2011, 01:23:13 » |
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Yes, I'm rather surprised it's lasted this long - based on past form! Despite the apparently tranquil residential setting, this is actually within a few feet of the main line ...  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ 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.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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JayMac
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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2011, 01:27:47 » |
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Shot in the dark. Somewhere in St Anne's, Bristol?
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
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"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2011, 01:34:22 » |
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In a word: No. |
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William Huskisson MP▸ 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.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2011, 09:19:36 » |
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There used to be something like this at Highbridge and Burnham but I thought it gor relocated to an industrial estate roundabout, though stil on the site of the old S&DR carriage works - I presume there could be 2 and this is by the flats on the east side of the mainline
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Phil
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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2011, 14:58:30 » |
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There's one in the middle of a roundabout in Basingstoke as well. And possibly something similar at Winscombe Station, on the site of which I read local people had erected a 3D homage to what used to be there (haven't seen it myself - the station was all still in situ when I lived there in the 1960s!)
This isn't either of those though and I haven't a clue where it is. Wild guess time: Barnstaple?
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2011, 17:33:52 » |
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Excellent shout, jakemonkfish! Here's confirmation of the answer:  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ 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.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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JayMac
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« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2011, 22:53:25 » |
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Was all fields in the early 2000s when a girlfriend lived nearby.
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"A clear conscience laughs at a false accusation."
"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
"Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."
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signalandtelegraph
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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2011, 07:16:01 » |
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Was all fields in the early 2000s when a girlfriend lived nearby.
Was a station until 1966! |
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