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« Reply #30 on: September 29, 2011, 07:41:51 » |
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9 is somewhere with Stadler unit, note central power car, would say Germany but catenery doesn't look right.
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« Reply #31 on: September 29, 2011, 08:03:26 » |
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9 is somewhere with Stadler unit, note central power car, would say Germany but catenery doesn't look right.
You're in the wrong country - but closely bordering it ... There ought to be a handicap for use of Google Earth ...  Not guilty.  As for Wikipedia and National Rail Enquiries, Ill plead the fifth.....  Oh, and remembering grahame made a trip to Harwich for the ferry some time back. I couldn't *quite* see how Google Earth would have helped. But now that we're 24 hours in, all's fare in sorting out the remaining pictures - two of which I had expected to go quite quickly ... very much FGW▸ territory ... |
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« Reply #32 on: September 29, 2011, 12:04:50 » |
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Wonder if 9 is Holland. Arriva have 99 Stadler units running there!
Also wondered about Eastern Europe but there's not enough weed on the track!
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« Reply #33 on: September 30, 2011, 09:17:21 » |
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Yes ... No. 9 is indeed in Holland - it's Venlo, right on the German border in fact. To clear up some of the more difficult ones ... number 0 is Elstree and Borehamwood. And that leaves just no.s 2 and 6, both of which are in the heart of FGW▸ territory so someone should know  |
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« Reply #34 on: September 30, 2011, 11:18:23 » |
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Is 2 and HST▸ on diversion via the line between Chippenham and Westbury (you know the one that has a lousy service and some great supporters)
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« Reply #35 on: September 30, 2011, 12:14:55 » |
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Is 2 and HST▸ on diversion via the line between Chippenham and Westbury (you know the one that has a lousy service and some great supporters)
Indeed ... it is. A London to Somewhere-in-the-South-West service has just left the London to Bristol via Bath line at Thingley junction, and is wending its way along the Swindon - Chippenham - Trowbridge - Westbury route. |
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« Reply #36 on: October 01, 2011, 23:09:07 » |
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Possibly stupid suggestions... But I reckon 6 is either Westbury - taken from Slag Lane Bridge. Or Just North of Trowbridge, Where the junction for Melksham is |
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« Reply #37 on: October 02, 2011, 18:44:59 » |
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Possibly stupid suggestions... But I reckon 6 is either Westbury - taken from Slag Lane Bridge. Or Just North of Trowbridge, Where the junction for Melksham is Neither of those (in fact an earlier answer was very close). As a further hint ... this location could indeed be very significant for the TransWilts; I took the photo on Sunday 25th September, late afternoon, risking life and limb to do so but not breaking any railway (or other) byelaws. |
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« Reply #38 on: October 12, 2011, 23:27:42 » |
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Has there been a correct answer for 6. yet?
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« Reply #39 on: October 13, 2011, 07:36:28 » |
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6 is Hunts Mill road Wootton Bassett, signals coming from Chippenham direction. I can see why you took your life in your hands!
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« Reply #40 on: October 13, 2011, 08:43:45 » |
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6 is Hunts Mill road Wootton Bassett, signals coming from Chippenham direction. I can see why you took your life in your hands!
Yes, it is ... also known as the "Skew Bridges" on the A3102 from Wootton Bassett to Lyneham. The bridge over the South Wales line has a footpath on it ... which runs out just as the quite-busy road wriggles over the bridge over the Chippenham line. It's almost as if the footpath is waiting to lead down to platforms on either side of the line here - the line was originally broad gauge and there does appear to be space. A resited WB station here would allow TransWilts trains to stop clear of the South Wales line, so that they could be picking up passengers for Swindon and beyond while the express via Parkway roared past then follow it, and similarly they could be doing station duties on their way out from Swindon, leaving the South Wales line clear for a following express. TransWilts Rail commissioned studies have shown this to be within line capacity, even when looking at the trains with the slowest acceleration (153s and 125s) but measured against the service frequency planned for when electric trains are running. |
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« Reply #41 on: October 13, 2011, 10:26:36 » |
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I was close then. Only been there the once - I went up to Wootton Bassett for the penultimate repatriation through RAF▸ Lyneham and afterwards wallked along the road to the bridge.
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