Great Western Coffee Shop

Not one of these photos contains a picture that shows a First Great Western train - yet all except one of them have a relevance here on the forum.   Can you tell me how / where / why in each case?

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All I can think of is

2: Those carriages are being used on FGW
6: FGW also run through that station?

Picture 3 is I suspect the Melksham line and showing it without a train would show there aren't many FGW trains that run on this line at present!

Picture 7 is Bradford on Avon Station which is a FGW station in Wiltshire which has less of a population than Melksham but has many many more trains.

Good grief - I make them too easy.  Ollie - you're right with both or yours too; can you name the places the pictures were taken (I'm sure you can in both those cases).

Timmer - you're right on No. 3 - it's behind the proposed Asda supermarket store site, where a public footpath crosses the line.   A very wide trackbed - not only was it formerly double track broad gauge but there were sidings too, and it has been suggested (not just by me!) that this sould make an excellent place to relocate the station as part of the supermarket build, giving a true travel interchange.

Picture 7 in indeed B-o-A.   Wasn't looking for the comparison (honest, Guv!) but it's true enough and much appreciated.

Picture 4 looks like the former Tetbury line platform at Kemble. This would be relevant because the current TransWilts "service" is (largely) an extension of the Stroud Valley line service.

2 is Paddington
6 I'm not actually sure about, I would hazard a guess at being Bristol TM because of the curvature of the platform, but I think I'm wrong.

Correct on all points (except on thinking you're wrong Ollie - that IS Temple Meads!) which just leaves pictures 1 and 5 to identify.  There's one of those two that I will be shocked if anyone gets - remember that one of the two remaining pictures does NOT have any relevance to the FGW area.

Oops - I may have found a tenuous connection even in the last case

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Health and Safety Notice - you are advised that walking along railway tracks is dangerous ...

5 and above are probably America possibly North

6 could be that a few months ago FGW hired a Voyager for a stopping service from Bristol to Taunton and back because of a shortage of DMUs.

5 and the later picture are indeed somewhere in North America ... and the link on 6 was only intended to show "FGW territory".   

I'm slighly surprised than no-one has answered on the very first picture, which was taken on a preserverd line not too far from where I live.  But then I suspect that confirms what I have known as we have grown - that most of our members here are users of the railways as a true transport mechanism to get from (a) to (b) which with a couple of exceptions the steam railways are not.

No 1 is either the East Somerset or the one on part of the old Midland Line from Bath to Bristol.

Being nearest preserved lines to Melksham.

1) in indeed the East Somerset  - see here (http://www.wellho.net/share/esr.html) ... and the North American pictures are in Sacramento, California.

Darn it!  I nearly posted, a couple of times, suggesting 1 might be the East Somserset at Cranmore - but it just seemed a lot more overgrown and rather smaller than I remembered it!  :D

Actually, grahame, I am more a fan of the West Somerset - the ideal way to get to Dunster, IMHO!  ;D