Great Western Coffee Shop

No clues to start with:

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Looks lovely. Presumably a park somewhere, maybe with an historic railway connection. I've just come back from Royal Victoria Park here in Bath and there are many bits very similar to that, but I don't think it is there, and I can't match it to any old railway lines I know in this neck of the woods (Bath and Bristol).

Could be Winscombe, the layout of the millennium green looks like that at the end.

Yes, Winscombe Millennium Green - or Winscombe Station, if you prefer. According to the Strawberry Line (https://www.thestrawberryline.org.uk/index.php?section=visit) website everything you see here is original - a remarkable survival if so.

It is indeed.  There was a major row when the Victorian kissing gates on an access footpath were replaced with modern galvanised steel ones.

If you are in the area then Sandford Station is open off the Strawberry Line at weekends with various exhibits.

(I live in Winscombe and have worked on the Green).

I passed through on my way to Cheddar (and beyond!); I'd been wanting to cycle the Strawberry Line for some time.

It didn't disappoint!

I've did a modest cycle ride starting from there some considerable years back.  A little more recently I did a walk from Yatton Station to Winscombe and back, somewhat weighed down on the return leg by a large container of Thatcher's Cider from their shop in Sandford.
When watching an advert on TV for Thatcher's some time back, I recognised the path that I had walked along through one of their orchards where the Strawberry Line path deviates from the original route near Sandford.
Very nice walk but there was quite a long stretch with little shade on what was a pretty hot day.  Fortunately I got back to Yatton Station a little early and the pub (The Firebox?) just across the road was open. 

Had some fish and chips  from the chippie in Winscombe with trainer of this forum on the picnic tables by the station. Great sense of deja vu as we did exactly the same some 6 or 7 years ago when we were both rather fatter and less fit than we are now...both pushing 70!

Pushing 70 is the best way of dealing with it. It keeps it over the horizon for a few more extra years!  ;D

It is a lovely ride.

Cycling through Shute Shelve Tunnel is brilliant!  ;D

Erm ... no, actually, it's not brilliant - it's pitch black, in the middle.  You'll need headlamps, torches, lanterns, candles, canaries in cages ...  ::)


It's actually The Railway Inn (https://railwayinnyatton.co.uk/): I introduced a couple of other members of this forum to it, and we all agreed it is excellent.  ;)

The approach signs state that lights are required and ask cyclists to walk through the tunnel.  In practice it is a great ride if the tunnel is clear.  You can see if it is clear since other people are silhouetted against the end of the tunnel.

Yes, I was exaggerating somewhat.  ;

I did think that your use of canaries was probably unnecessary since the rock is not coal bearing.