Great Western Coffee Shop

An almost-traditional "Where is this?" quiz - one each please for the first 24 hours. And we break tradition by having a link between all the pictures. Can you tell me what that is?

1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.
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6.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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11.
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12.
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No 2 is on the line of the former Wilts and Berks Canal through Swindon. This section is just behind the houses on the north side of Curtiss Street, which is I believe very near where one our members lives.

 Thingley Junction, showing the electricity substation for the OHLE line feed.

6 is the underpass between the station and the town in Melksham.  Almost graffiti free - I?ve seen it worse.

Finn has 'used' the tree on the left a few times!

8 hazard a quess at Chippenham high street

I would hope that no 8 is not Chippenham High Street!

I think you might mean no 7, and I would agree with you.

Is number 4 staff training for the new Melksham station cafe!  ;D ;D

12. Euston - "I think we have a problem"

Correct so far:
1. Thingley Junction - Bradshaw
2. Swindon - Ellendune
6. Melksham - Bobm
12. Euston - Phil Wakely

Neither 7 nor 8 are Chippenham; 4 is not Melksham, nor staff in training for the station cafe there - but it would be really lovely to have something special like top notch street food there. German theme would be appropriate as the station is sponsored by Knorr Bremse, based in Munich.

11 Glasgow Central

9 Paddington

No 5 is outside the Bryant & May factory between Liverpool Street and Stratford (specifically Bow), maybe?

3 is Glasgow Central.

Correct so far:

1. Thingley Junction - Bradshaw
2. Swindon - Ellendune
3. Glasgow Central - Zoe
6. Melksham - Bobm
9. Paddington - TonyN
11. Glasgow Central - Bignosemac
12. Euston - Phil Wakely

Number 5, sorry, not between Liverpool Street and Stratford - not London at all.

8. Looks like where the West Coast Railway trains are repaired at the Southall Railway Centre

Factory? That's  Lancashire County Council County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire PR1 8XJ England. Or thereabouts.

I assume we have to do better than "the top deck of a Stagecoach double decker" for 8!

I'll guess - Cheltenham?

Is 10 Bath?

And is 4 Bath Christmas Market?

Correct so far:

1. Thingley Junction - Bradshaw
2. Swindon - Ellendune
3. Glasgow Central - Zoe
5. Preston - Stuving
6. Melksham - Bobm
9. Paddington - TonyN
11. Glasgow Central - Bignosemac
12. Euston - Phil Wakely

Neither 4 nor 10 are Bath (10 not Chelenham either, I'm afraid)
8 is not Southall

There's a connection between all these pictures, and it's especially right to have this quiz today.  If you get the connection, the remaining locations may become clearer. You will note 2 x Glasgow Central - do not rule out other duplicates.

Giving you the connection ... all picture I took on this date last year

You must have traveled a long way that day!

I googled the scaffolders advertising in no 10 and they are based in Mitcham in south London, and say they work within the M25, so presumably that must be in London, though it doesn't really fit any other clue in the picture or what your journey must have been, as it was obviously middle of day.

Yes, a red herring wasn't it? But I think the journey is obvious enough, and the bus route almost almost as much - though I can't place the junction; was it perhaps diverted off its normal route?

Oh and No. 7 is pretty easy too, isn't it?

I had been working in the 'burbs of Glasgow that week ... and the company I was visiting had their Christmas do in the City on the Friday evening, invited me along and I joined them.  I may write more in "and also" in a few minutes. Overnight in my hotel tight by Central Station, and home on the Saturday on Virgin Train's last day via London.  Early start, early afternoon as Swindon where (of course) I had the longest wait of the day for the Melksham service and straight into the Christmas fayre there even before getting home.

Pictures, in order taken

11. Glasgow Central - Bignosemac
3. Glasgow Central - Zoe
5. Preston - Stuving
8. Crewe
9. Paddington - TonyN
10. Euston Road. ... on the 205 from Euston to Paddington
12. Euston - Phil Wakely
2. Swindon - Ellendune
4. Swindon
1. Thingley Junction - Bradshaw
6. Melksham - Bobm
7. Melksham


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Edit to add ...


Well - bus route identified ... and I don't recall it headed off route.  The 205 no longer calls at Marylebone station but stays on Euston Road ... reseaching further ...

Great Portland Street - Trees in Park Square Gardens (home of Regents Park Station) visible ahead right through the gap between the buildings.

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Careless! I read the street name off the sign as Great Portland Street, and looked there first but hadn't twigged the building was seen from the back so was looking in the wrong place. And once you've rejected something ...