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Title: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 08, 2020, 11:12:32 One image for every day of this month! Nearly all in GWR land. Just one guess each please for the first 24 hours (yes, you can have another go if you get one wrong!)
Please also look through and post up how many you think you know. We were having some loading issues with the server during this week ... a lot better now, I think, but you can help me by posting / throwing lots of traffic this way. All images taken by myself in the last year or so. Most before social distancing - please wear a face mask, keep your distance, wash hands, buy tickets contactless, choose quiet trains if you're out and about at present. 1. Melksham - Reginald25 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_01.jpg) 2. Southampton Central - MVR S&T (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_02.jpg) 3. Penzance - johnneyw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_16.jpg) 4. St Erth - Philwakely (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_17.jpg) 5. St Ives - Old Original (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_18.jpg) 6. Warminster - Froome (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_03.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_gw3.jpg) 7. St Andrews Road - eightonedee (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_27.jpg) 8. Exmouth - AMLAG (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_28.jpg) 9. Reading - Oxman (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_29.jpg) 10. Westbury - Bradshaw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_04.jpg) 11. Worcester Shrub Hill - TonyN (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_08.jpg) 12. Worcestershire Parkway - Merthyr Imp (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_09.jpg) 13. Menheniot - Lee (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_12.jpg) 14. Falmouth - Old Original (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_13.jpg) 15. Perranwell - Adelante_CCT (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_14.jpg) 16. Truro - rogerw (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_15.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_gw1.jpg) 17. Roche - Old Original (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_19.jpg) 18. Newquay - Old Original (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_20.jpg) 19. Par - Oxonhutch (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_21.jpg) 20. Totnes - Rob on the Hill (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_22.jpg) 21. Swindon - PhilWakely (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_05.jpg) 22. Frome - Phil (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_06.jpg) 23. Bicester Village - Phil Wakely (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_07.jpg) 24. Keynsham - Western Pathfinder (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_23.jpg) 25. "TM" - Bristol Temple Meads - onthecushions (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_24.jpg) 26. Malvern Link - TonyN (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_10.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_gw2.jpg) 27. Looe - Jamsdad (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_11.jpg) 28. Taunton - Zoe (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_25.jpg) 29. Severn Beach - Western Pathfinder (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_26.jpg) 30. Paddington - ellendune (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_30.jpg) 31. Stonehouse - BobM (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_31.jpg) Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Oxonhutch on August 08, 2020, 11:42:19 I could name 11 of them
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Zoe on August 08, 2020, 11:50:37 28 is Taunton. There are 5 others I can name.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: bradshaw on August 08, 2020, 11:58:09 10, Westbury, Wilts
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Phil on August 08, 2020, 12:11:22 22. is Frome (I think)
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: ellendune on August 08, 2020, 12:19:59 30 is Paddington Looking East
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: old original on August 08, 2020, 12:20:51 I reckon I got 15 (a good few local to me!) so I might as well go with number 17 - Roche
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Western Pathfinder on August 08, 2020, 12:22:31 29. Severn Beach.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Oxman on August 08, 2020, 12:28:18 9. Reading
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 08, 2020, 12:35:01 All right so far ... server feeling a bit pushed (and I was hoping it would ...)
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: TonyN on August 08, 2020, 12:43:53 11 is Worcester Shrub Hill
I got 14 Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Oxonhutch on August 08, 2020, 14:35:19 Well if we are naming them - purely to stress the server - and obeying the traditional rules (so we know there must be the usual two in there somewhere ;) ) - No. 19 - Par
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Rob on the hill on August 08, 2020, 14:52:04 20. Totnes.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: johnneyw on August 08, 2020, 15:25:38 3. Penzance. I reckon I could have had a stab at about half a dozen of them. I walked down those very steps at Totnes only last Saturday.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Red Squirrel on August 08, 2020, 15:32:05 Is No.4 Porkway Partway? Have I been asleep?
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: onthecushions on August 08, 2020, 16:03:07 26. TM? OTC Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 08, 2020, 16:08:24 Is No.4 Porkway Partway? Have I been asleep? Oh come on ... give it a chance. These things take time ... The picture is, of course not, the Park and Ride at Pilning - photographed very early on opening morning, Monday 15th May 2023, with my "Back to the Future" camera. Entrance from the new junction on the M49 . From gov.uk (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-milestone-for-m49-junction-scheme-at-avonmouth), published 26th June 2019 Quote And Nick Aldworth, Highways England’s South West Regional Delivery Director said: Its proximity to the motorway network, railways and port makes it an ideal area to develop and encourage economic growth, and the road scheme has a phenomenally high benefit. Every £1 invested in this scheme will bring more than £30 into the local economy, generating more than 14,000 jobs in the long term. What could be more sensible than this Park and Ride just 750 metres from the motorway, with 2 trains an hour on the Bristol Metro's Cardiff service, and one London train an hour (the Cardiff semi-fast) calling there? Oh - sorry. Not sleeping but dreaming. The quote from Highways England is correct including his noting that the new junction is close to the railway ... just needs someone to join it up. And if you are a reader in Pilning, the dream (and it works on the map) keeps the station on the edge of your village, and has the traffic approaching it without coming through your built up area. I'm sure it will help increase the value of your houses :D Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: PhilWakely on August 08, 2020, 16:31:15 Of the ones remaining, I reckon I can name 7 of them.
No 4 is St Erth. Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Hal on August 08, 2020, 16:35:14 No. 7 Avonmouth. Cleveland Cable Co has a branch there.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 08, 2020, 16:53:26 No. 7 Avonmouth. Cleveland Cable Co has a branch there. You're not far off - but, sorry, not pointing to Avonmouth Station Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: rogerw on August 08, 2020, 16:54:42 I got 13. 16 is Truro
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Adelante_CCT on August 08, 2020, 16:58:11 15. Perranwell
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 08, 2020, 16:59:51 26. TM? OTC Err ... don't think so? I suspect you have reduced to obfuscation the place name for a different picture. Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: AMLAG on August 08, 2020, 17:37:58 8. Exmouth
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: onthecushions on August 08, 2020, 18:29:48 26. TM? OTC Err ... don't think so? I suspect you have reduced to obfuscation the place name for a different picture. 25 then (header not footer!) OTC Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Reginald25 on August 08, 2020, 18:35:36 I'll take the obvious one! 1- Melksham.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: MVR S&T on August 08, 2020, 20:24:29 2. Southampton Central platform 4.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: eightonedee on August 08, 2020, 21:05:07 7 - St Andrew's Road
(I think in football terms that's hitting in a rebound from the post.....) Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Jamsdad on August 08, 2020, 21:26:57 27 Looe
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: froome on August 08, 2020, 21:45:01 I think 6 is Warminster.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 08, 2020, 21:50:27 I think 6 is Warminster. It is ... one of the few picture from the day last August that did NOT include a Routemaster! Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Merthyr Imp on August 08, 2020, 22:29:06 12 - Worcestershire Parkway?
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 05:41:51 22 out of 31 identified by 22 different members in the 12 hours from the original post during yesterday. All 31 images are held in the server's databases and calling up the pictures was calculated to stress the server. After some initial issues in the first 90 minutes, the server handled it fine. Many thanks for the help, everyone. No 'proof' that the changes I made (extra guards on the door, dead wood chucked out and more stalls in the loo in nightclub terms) are a permanent / lasting fix, but the improvement under planned pressure looks to be more than a co-incidence.
9 still to place ... for anyone who's not taken part and submitted a response yet, please do so ... if any remain by lunchtime, I will open the field for second guesses. As an aside (anticipated good consequence, but not the justification of the quiz) lots of people posting. Although we are in a lull (no news) season, some 90 different members have already posted this month - that really helps keep the forum active for everyone, so THANK YOU. A lot more members have visited (logged in) but not posted, and as is the pattern guest numbers are very high, with Google analytics confirming that 92% of over 1,100 users are from UK addresses, which rather confirms most of them as genuine visitors and not clever robots. Here's the geographic coverage map of those UK visitors (http://www.wellho.net/pix/csv_20200809.jpg) Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Lee on August 09, 2020, 09:04:36 13 is Menheniot
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 12:00:52 24 hours gone, just 8 out of the 31 left to go ... no.s 5, 14, 18, 21, 23, 24, 26 and 31. Anyone like to hazard a guess at all 8? Link to top of topic - http://www.passenger.chat/23875
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: old original on August 09, 2020, 12:10:40 I can do 5, 14 & 18, if permissible...
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 12:13:43 I can do 5, 14 & 18, if permissible... Yes, that's AOK ... and shows regional (subNational) specialisation ;D Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: old original on August 09, 2020, 12:17:44 Cheers..
Three of Cornwall's biggest coastal resorts.. 5 - St Ives 14 - Falmouth Town (Perranporth Beach Halt, masquerading as..... 😁😁) 18 - Newquay Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 12:30:51 Cheers.. Three of Cornwall's biggest coastal resorts.. 5 - St Ives 14 - Falmouth Town (Perranporth Beach Halt, masquerading as..... 😁😁) 18 - Newquay All correct ... and I would have accepted "The Dell" for 14! Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: PhilWakely on August 09, 2020, 12:34:58 21 Swindon
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: TonyN on August 09, 2020, 12:43:07 26 Malvern Link
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: bobm on August 09, 2020, 12:48:01 31 - Stonehouse. Could have been taken this weekend - no trains - road replacement the order of the day.
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Western Pathfinder on August 09, 2020, 13:16:54 No24 Keynsham looking west ?..
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 14:17:23 All correct this morning. Just this one to go then:
23. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/qau20_07.jpg) Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: PhilWakely on August 09, 2020, 14:31:17 23. Ashchurch for Tewkesbury?
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 15:12:20 Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: Hal on August 09, 2020, 16:45:31 Theale?
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 16:52:13 Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: PhilWakely on August 09, 2020, 17:09:20 Bicester Village?
Title: Re: An image for every day of the month - can you identify the locations? Post by: grahame on August 09, 2020, 17:14:05 Bicester Village? Yes, it is! Well spotted - one of the hardest picture in the quiz. 31 pictures identified in less than 31 hours .... I hope to be seeing more that just No. 1 in the next couple of weeks and perhaps bump into one or two members. Guess that needs to be a metaphorical bump this year ... Thanks for taking part, everyone! 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 |