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« on: October 08, 2017, 21:08:24 » |
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Archie is enjoying a rest after a game of chase-the-greyhound - no prizes for guessing who won! But if he'd sat here in 1960 he'd have been in danger of being flattened by a train. Where was he?  |
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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2017, 21:19:24 » |
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1960 means my first guess about the Camerton Branch is a no no but I'm now wondering if it's somewhere twixt Castle Cary and Bruton on one of the abandoned stretches there?
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2017, 21:26:48 » |
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Hmm.  I'm trying to narrow it down a bit: was Archie perhaps somewhere in Devon?  |
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« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2017, 07:42:26 » |
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First clue: It's in the South-West, but it's not rural.
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« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2017, 08:05:15 » |
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First clue: It's in the South-West, but it's not rural.
A wild guess - the Somerset Coalfield ... not too far from Midsomer Norton? |
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« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2017, 08:51:00 » |
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Still too rural!
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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2017, 09:53:05 » |
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No one has suggested Taunton yet?  |
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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2017, 10:08:06 » |
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Kelston nr Bath?.
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« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2017, 13:40:54 » |
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Kelston nr Bath?.
Right railway company... This suggests the Mangotsfield and Bath branch but I can't place the exact location. Or is it more generally on the old Midland railway? |
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« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2017, 14:07:12 » |
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Ooh, your getting close... it's pure Midland, not far from Mangotsfield, but not the Bath branch.
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« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2017, 14:43:27 » |
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Rodway Hill perhaps?
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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2017, 15:11:55 » |
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Archie is pretty well in the cess (and we won't go there - he has some filthy habits...) near where two tracks crossed four.
Still waiting for BNM to come in with the coup de grace (which, to be clear, is not French for lawnmower).
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« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2017, 15:18:09 » |
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I think I have it...and I'm kicking myself because if I'm correct, I've walked along there plenty of times.
I'll let others try though. I'll find out if I'm right later.
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« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2017, 15:25:07 » |
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BNM will have a guess at somewhere between Kingswood Junction and Ashley Hill Junction, perhaps Narroways Hill, where the Midland joined the Clifton Extension Railway (Severn Beach Line).
But BNM isn't 100% sure.
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