6.  Denton station, near Manchester.

It hasn't changed much, over the years, but I'm struggling with a possible date for a black and white photo of it.

A wild guess, therefore: 1970?

 
I think Google streetview shows the bus is actually on (or just coming off) a side road:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/mLaus6bfQRBEAf8P8

 
It looks like Class 99s are being imported at Portbury - this YouTube vid shows a couple of them coming down the line towards Parson Street:

https://youtu.be/18YvL103CRo?si=fU8uQ4qIy-Yid6Pl

 
I did wonder about ice - but it wasn't that cold here in Bristol overnight. Maybe the bus stopped on the hill, then slid backwards on any ice?


They seem as puzzled as anyone.

 
I was wondering whether it had oversteered on some ice, but if it did it must have been going at a fair rate of knots to end up like that.

 
Well At least they have their own recovery company according to the side of the bus 

 
Yes, I wondered, too: that's rather why I posted the item. 

 
No doubt it is stuck, but how on earth did it get into that position?

 
Ha - I was going to post that Google Lens was a good way to identify the locations in these photos (after they'd all been identified). But in fact Lens first told me (confidently) it was Alveston, then Google AI told me it was Bilston Central To be fair, I didn't recognise it either, despite having passed through it this morning - it's definitely changed

A slightly larger version of that photo appears here http://www.savethetrain.org.uk/oldpics2.html which might have been where you saw it.

 
From the BBC:

 
I've seen picture 9 before. I guess there are only so many old photos of Melksham available.

 
Beat me to it!

 
Gobsmacked that the cost of the project has risen from £25M to £500M - twentyfold - whilst the politicos have been faffing around without getting started.

No wonder everything (except being sent to chokey for social media posts) takes so long and costs so much

 
1. Chirk chipboard factory, or if it's not there then somewhere in Scotland at the other end of the route, where the timber is loaded.
Date - I guess 1975 judging by the man's clothing and hairstyle.

 
My favourite restaurant, the Beetle & Wedge at Moulsford (where there was once a ferry across the Thames) had a makeover several years ago, with its car-park rejigged and spaces re-delineated.  Trouble is that they're designed for traditional cars.  In the summer a friend drove me there in her Jaguar SUV and despite all the beeping gizmos to help had trouble parking it.  When we got out, the front was six inches from a wall, with two feet of its back outside the marked space.

I suspect that some visitors park in the nearby cul de sac, no doubt causing chagrin to the residents.  When I drive there in my Vauxhall Corsa I leave it in the village car park several hundred yards away - less challenging for me.

When my friend arrived at my house for the first time in the Jag she noticed the look of disapproval on my face.  She's complained of having to squeeze it into the hedge in the lanes close to her house when she meets oncoming traffic.  Dunno why she needs such a large car, as most of the time she's the only occupant.

 

But surely if the speed limit is lowered, journeys take longer and the number of passengers on the busway at any one time will be maintained?


It took Sheffield from 1960 until 1994 to loose and regain their trams.   It took Galashiels from 1969 to 2015 to regain its trains.   St Ives (Cambs) station didn't close until 1970 ... it may be a few years yet. If the trains were to return to what is now the busway up to St Ives, a continuation to Huntingdon and the onwards towards Beford might solve several issues ... just sayin ... must hold on to that idea until 1st April 2026

 

St Lawrence for Pegwell Bay, in Ramsgate.

 
3: Melrose station on the Borders Railway between closure and lifting in the early 1970s and the building of the current bypass in 1987.

 
No 10 Hunstanton, 1967?

Edited as I didn’t include a date.

 
This was parked in a Bridport car park the other day. It makes you realise the extent of the problem.
We had a 1960 Mini in which we went on a holiday to Scotland, four of us and luggage. I still am not sure how we fitted in!

 

No, it's not on the Isle of Wight ... there are / were at least one other "St Lawrence"

 
No 2 is on the S&D. Probably Shepton Mallet.

 

Apologies, couldn’t resist.

Chris from Nailsea will be gutted if there’s no historic picture of Taunton for him to take a guess at.

 
I assume 5 is the closed St Lawrence Station on the Isle of Wight (as that's the name on the station sign!).

 

I scrolled down to look wondering if that was a serious suggestion until I saw what picture that was!

 
Is number 4 Taunton?

 
From The BBC