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Title: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2019, 16:31:16
Where was Red Squirrel last weekend?  Ans: Porkway Partway, Bmblbzzz

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Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: patch38 on August 07, 2019, 16:59:19
Nesting in some vegetation?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: stuving on August 07, 2019, 17:15:47
Nesting in some vegetation?

... or at least, from the perspective, up a tree.


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2019, 17:19:22
Not on a train! Not in a tree!
Not in a car! Stuving! Let me be!

I was standing by my bike...


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Bmblbzzz on August 07, 2019, 17:24:15
Sampling the track-side nuts to be served in the future Portishead buffet?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2019, 18:00:31
No. These tracks are in regular use...


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: grahame on August 07, 2019, 18:10:29
Are there four tracks there now?

Not on a train! Not in a tree!
Not in a car! Stuving! Let me be!

I was standing by my bike...

But surely nowhere near Coatdyke?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Western Pathfinder on August 07, 2019, 18:13:21
Avon Valley Railway ?.


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Reginald25 on August 07, 2019, 18:25:03
Complete guess: Foxfield?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2019, 18:37:26
I can see that a clue might be in order: a time machine would almost certainly help identify this location...


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Reginald25 on August 07, 2019, 19:29:06
sounds like Cardiff then. Line to Merthyr?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2019, 20:08:29
A time machine might reveal a station at this location...


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Reginald25 on August 07, 2019, 20:15:39
Holt?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2019, 20:19:50
Holt?

Lorks...

See those buildings in the distance, to the left of the bush in the centre of the picture? They're on the other side of some water.


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Bmblbzzz on August 07, 2019, 20:36:14
Yes, I had the impression they were. I've no idea where it is though. Are we to infer there's an HG Wells connection?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Bmblbzzz on August 07, 2019, 20:41:31
Aha! Elsethread you've said "The other day I stopped on my bicycle as close as I could get to one of the wind turbines of the Avonmouth Wind Farm." Perhaps the former station on that site was the temporary one built for spectators to watch the salvaging of the Kron Prinz in 18~~?

(I can't remember the precise date, have probably misspelled the ship's name, and can't find the info right now, but it's mentioned on info boards along the Pill Path.)

Edit: Wikipedia mentions the wreck of the Kron Prinz on 1st April 1874 on the Horseshoe Bend but says it was refloated three weeks later. It seems unlikely that even Victorians built a platform for a three week job, so I might be conflating two incidents.


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 07, 2019, 21:16:09
Are we to infer there's an HG Wells connection?

Ah, no, simpler than that. If you could travel in time, then you'd be able to take a photograph of a railway station here...

Aha! Elsethread you've said "The other day I stopped on my bicycle as close as I could get to one of the wind turbines of the Avonmouth Wind Farm." Perhaps the former station on that site was the temporary one built for spectators to watch the salvaging of the Kron Prinz in 18~~?

You're homing in...


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Bmblbzzz on August 08, 2019, 09:40:26
So we need to travel forward in time. It's the site of the promised Porkway Partway?


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 08, 2019, 10:46:14
It is indeed! Standing in the P&R Car Park, more or less where the entrance to the new platform is to be built.


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: johnneyw on August 08, 2019, 20:20:55
Well, that also answers the question, "has any construction commenced on the site yet?".


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: Red Squirrel on August 09, 2019, 00:04:15
Well, that also answers the question, "has any construction commenced on the site yet?".

It does, doesn't it? I suppose I could arguably have found a less-indirect way of providing a progress update...


Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: martyjon on August 09, 2019, 01:24:52
Well, that also answers the question, "has any construction commenced on the site yet?".

It does, doesn't it? I suppose I could arguably have found a less-indirect way of providing a progress update....

A more direct way would been to say. "WECA's Involved", cos if WECA's involved don't expect any progress AT ALL, let alone                 
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Title: Re: Where was Red Squirrel 3/8/2019
Post by: johnneyw on August 09, 2019, 10:15:42
Well, that also answers the question, "has any construction commenced on the site yet?".

It does, doesn't it? I suppose I could arguably have found a less-indirect way of providing a progress update...


Perhaps, although it does also suggest that passengers may have a not unpleasant vista while awaiting their train.



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