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Here are some unusual views of and from stations. Can you identify the station. Some are closed stations and disused railways.
Usual rules apply only one correct answer per person on the first day.


1, Fowey - Jamsdad
(https://i.ibb.co/vqpM1mV/Q1.jpg)
2, Ridgmont - eightonedee
(https://i.ibb.co/vHhp0Sp/Q2.jpg)
3, Hastings - Surrey 455
(https://i.ibb.co/yhxTjC4/Q3.jpg)
4, Oakham - bignosemac
(https://i.ibb.co/SyVLDRF/Q4.jpg)
5, Atherstone - brooklea
(https://i.ibb.co/qYmQNtW/Q5.jpg)
6, Lewes - Bradshaw
(https://i.ibb.co/8rHBcpM/Q6.jpg)
7, Evesham - Worcester_Passenger
(https://i.ibb.co/s98DL8M/Q7.jpg)
8, Winchester - Stuving
(https://i.ibb.co/PxVMRXg/Q8.jpg)
9, Honeybourne - Oxonhutch
(https://i.ibb.co/ZXgDVh1/Q9.jpg)
10, Hereford - IndustryInsider
(https://i.ibb.co/sF2xL9m/Q10.jpg)
11, Pershore - Hal
(https://i.ibb.co/kVLbS98/Q11.jpg)
12, London City Airport, from George V - stuving
(https://i.ibb.co/grPzQdb/Q12.jpg)

6 Lewes station

9: Honeybourne

Yes


Yes There's no catching people out on here

10. Hereford.

5 Atherstone

12. is London City Airport, seen I think from George V - or maybe the airport station itself, or indeed anywhere along that stretch of the DLR since it doesn't look like it was taken from a platform.

Yes I was hoping you where busy today :)


Yes Don't try and cycle under this one unless you are very short.


Yes Taken from the footbridge at George V (I got told off over the PA by the CCTV operator)

Told off for what?

Plane spotting.
I had gone to Woolwich on Docklands and then walked down to the river and taken the Woolwich ferry to North Woolwich. They where a bit jumpy in the area because there had been a gangland stabbing near King George V station a few days before. In order to get from the ferry terminal to the station I walked past the borded up remains of North Woolwich station. Then I had to cross a road on a Zebra crossing but the traffic just refused to stop.

7 Evesham

Yes

1. Fowey

Yes
I took the bus from Par station to Tywardreath cross roads. Then walked to Golant for a pub lunch with passing china clay train.
(https://i.ibb.co/YLWJc7D/DSC-2584a.jpg)
After lunch I walked to Fowey along the Saints way.

4. Oakham

Yes I have never seen anything like that before. Have you been or did you find out about it elseware?

I found the location with the only time I've ever Googled, "Egg+Vending+Railway+Station"  ;) :P ;D

3. Hastings

I didn't buy any eggs the thought of trying to carry them on a full and standing 170 from New street to Worcester in the evening rush hour put me off. ;D

Yes

Oddly, that boat and its jaunty angle reminded me of this:
(https://images.ladepeche.fr/api/v1/images/view/5c18d8bf3e45461422762292/large/image.jpg)
I can't use my own photo for that as my camera went missing that evening on a very crowded tram.

Is 2 the Ridgmont Station Tea Room?

Yes I had lunch in the other room but did not get a picture as there where other people in as well.

Just 2 remaining

8, Is an ex GWR line very Important during WW2 but closed by BR in the 1960s
11, Is where you alight for the Plum Festival

8,
(https://i.ibb.co/PxVMRXg/Q8.jpg)
11, Pershore - Hal
(https://i.ibb.co/kVLbS98/Q11.jpg)

Plum festival is at Pershore, so that must be 11.
The only time I went there I couldn't find a single plum to buy.

From the clue rather than the picture ... I'm suspecting that No. 8 may be on the line from Cheltenham Spa to the Midlands that's now the Gloucestershire and Warwick Railway.

Yes

Sorry no Try further south.

Is 8 on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton?

It Is
Anybody any idea where?

I have been puzzled by the car wheel at the top right, and the lack of many remaining bridges over roads on the line. So my guess for 8 is Whitchurch (as that part of the A34 by-pass that was partly built on the formation on top?)- but I say that with no confidence. I do know it's not Compton if that helps anyone else!

Its not Whitchurch.

The Car is on Something that has always been a road.

Winchester - which is a bit like Whitchurch, after all. Barfield Close going under East Street (and others crossing it).

Winchester it is

I took the photo from opposite the Black Rat pub at the end of Chesil street looking down onto Barfield close. Barfield close is on the DN&S Trackbed.
https://tinyurl.com/ya4go7o3 (https://tinyurl.com/ya4go7o3)

Thanks to all who took part in the Quiz. I only had the idea a couple of days ago when looking for photos for something else but it seemed to work very well.

And Thanks to Graham for the oppertunity to run some quizes.

Is that the new car park on the north side of the line in the background?

No that is the Lorry park for the Tarmac plant at the west end of the Tarmac plant.

The Car park will be at the East end of the Tarmac plant and the station.

Is the plan to access it from the east - i.e. off the roundabout on the A44?

Yes I have found a plan see page 28
https://www.pershoretownplan.co.uk/uploads/8/3/4/6/83468208/town_plan_final_adopted.pdf (https://www.pershoretownplan.co.uk/uploads/8/3/4/6/83468208/town_plan_final_adopted.pdf)