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Title: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: PhilWakely on March 26, 2019, 16:37:50 A nice easy one for most of you......... and probably not the wisest choice for me, recovering as I am from a spell in hospital with full-on Flu and Pneumonia [and now Shingles :( ]
(https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1qHbAbraNzHKUaeI2APJXWLI1xmS7mfQI) Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: martyjon on March 26, 2019, 17:57:16 Somewhere very near to Gretna Green ?
Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: PhilWakely on March 26, 2019, 17:58:33 Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: martyjon on March 26, 2019, 18:06:03 Then somewhere along Hadrians Wall ?
Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: PhilWakely on March 26, 2019, 18:11:51 Then somewhere along Hadrians Wall ? You are very approximately 400 miles out.Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: bobm on March 26, 2019, 20:09:07 Sorry to hear of your malaise. I had shingles when I was 16 - only to be told by the doctor it was very rare in teenagers!
Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: grahame on March 26, 2019, 20:09:46 There is a "Scotland" and an "Ireland" near Westbury .... but no Park and Ride yet ... so not there.
There is a park and ride and a station at Swindon, but a "New Zealand" not a Scotland near there. 400 miles from Gretna Green ... Truro? Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: Surrey 455 on March 26, 2019, 21:13:33 Corfe.
Not the same sign but here's one I took back in 2014 Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: JayMac on March 26, 2019, 21:17:02 I concur. I have a picture of one of those signs too, somewhere. The 'Park & Ride' refers to the facility at Norden and the 'Railway Station' is on the Swanage Railway.
Quite why the tiny hamlet (a farm and not much else) of Scotland has been signposted in several places is a bit of a mystery. There's nothing there as far as I can tell. Perhaps a little joke on the part of the folk responsible for commissioning the signs. Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: Surrey 455 on March 26, 2019, 21:34:00 I took that photo just after getting off the bus at the National Trust Car Park. Google street view here. (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.6416701,-2.05883,3a,32.9y,334.36h,99.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSlgYGsJp4OXxe1gBQvsVdg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: PhilWakely on March 26, 2019, 21:40:10 Corfe. I concur. I have a picture of one of those signs too, somewhere. The 'Park & Ride' refers to the facility at Norden and the 'Railway Station' is on the Swanage Railway. Yup! see here! (https://corfe-castle.co.uk/locations/scotland-farm/) Took a trip to Corfe Castle to phot a visiting BR Standard tank engine............... (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1btQXWoEbXoGJ4kNikBfP_VFNFMAjv38X) (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1FCFf45_867bjObqhecrZbk1_LAANbudM) Seems everybody else was interested in some other visitor ;D (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=12uyO50SU-bjkKKHTZ10S19Rh3d1UAqvM) (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=10WewKOVaGjKkrbfFP9xC3xmxQzDzZfW_) (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1IJTInN6ZHelMOn06PIPabNLAa3IeXu0k) Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: JayMac on March 26, 2019, 21:42:38 Further digging...
Scotland Farm's main building is Grade II listed and owned by the National Trust. It isn't though open to the public. https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101120230-scotland-farm-house-corfe-castle#.XJqcSxinxkw Oh, and great pics, Phil! Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: chuffed on March 26, 2019, 22:27:59 Wow,that really is a triple whammy. No wonder you were in emergency Ward 10. You will need to take it very easy for some considerable time. Perhaps a few tail wags and licks from BNM's canine companion would cheer you up!
Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: grahame on March 27, 2019, 05:18:36 Get well soon and take it gentle.
Love the pictures of trains as they used to be on that line; a 2-6-4 tank with a rake of green carriages seems so much more "Corfe" than the thing that has novelty value. I remember a couple of happy afternoons in my childhood up on the hill opposite the castle, watch trains (thumpers) calling ... travelling from Waterloo to Swanage, arriving there in 4TC with a 33 for power on what must have been the very dying tail of the through service. Title: Re: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019. Post by: PhilWakely on March 27, 2019, 05:41:15 Get well soon and take it gentle. Love the pictures of trains as they used to be on that line; a 2-6-4 tank with a rake of green carriages seems so much more "Corfe" than the thing that has novelty value. I remember a couple of happy afternoons in my childhood up on the hill opposite the castle, watch trains (thumpers) calling ... travelling from Waterloo to Swanage, arriving there in 4TC with a 33 for power on what must have been the very dying tail of the through service. Just for grahame................ taken on 2nd April 1970, a Thumper departs Corfe Castle for Wareham. I had just run down from the castle and was about to run back up again 8) (https://drive.google.com/uc?id=17oWWRygKBz1BTb-GKz2oAqDE8KlFSDph) This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |