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Title: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 17, 2021, 21:59:59 It's a while since we had a "where is this". Come to think of it, it's a while since I was on a train!!
One each for the first 24 hours, please! 1. Glasgow Central - Merthyr Imp (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_01.jpg) 2. Shanklin - Western Pathfinder (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_02.jpg) 3 St Johns Newfoundland / Signal Hill - eightonedee (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_03.jpg) 4. Holyhead - Stuving (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_04.jpg) 5. Shrewsbury - TonyN (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_05.jpg) 6 Glasgow Central - Western Pathfinder (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_06.jpg) 7 Drogheda - stuving (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_07.jpg) 8 Chippenham - Andy E (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_08.jpg) 9. Bank - jdw.wor (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_09.jpg) 10 Saltford - rower40 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_00.jpg) Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: Merthyr Imp on February 17, 2021, 22:04:26 1. - Glasgow Central?
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: Western Pathfinder on February 17, 2021, 22:28:15 No2 IOW. Third rail Shanklin.
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: johnneyw on February 17, 2021, 22:38:09 8 Trowbridge?
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: jdw.wor on February 17, 2021, 22:38:30 9 Bank
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: PrestburyRoad on February 17, 2021, 22:38:58 9. - a wild guess - Glasgow's underground railway? - it doesn't feel like the London Underground.
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 17, 2021, 22:50:54 These correct
1 Glasgow Central - Merthyr Imp 2 Shanklin - Western Pathfinder 9 Bank - jdw.wor 8 is NOT Trowbridge. The picture at Bank is the tunnel / walkway down to "The Drain" which only became a part of the London Underground very late on and has a unique feel to this day - or rather until last year. Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: TonyN on February 17, 2021, 22:56:06 5 is Shrewsbury
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: stuving on February 17, 2021, 23:08:32 4. Holyhead (ferry port)
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 18, 2021, 05:57:39 5 is Shrewsbury 4. Holyhead (ferry port) Both correct! Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: Andy E on February 18, 2021, 07:30:19 8. Chippenham bus station
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: PrestburyRoad on February 18, 2021, 08:08:03 7. Looks like it's British - but I'm guessing it's overseas in the Irish Republic. An expert on liveries would know.
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: GBM on February 18, 2021, 08:44:38 3. Bergen?
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: eightf48544 on February 18, 2021, 11:12:09 3 Wild Guess Picton New Zealand
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 18, 2021, 11:26:03 8 is indeed Chippenham.
3 is neither Bergen nor Picton - but you're right in looking quite a way away. 7 Correctly located to British Isles. Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: rower40 on February 18, 2021, 14:36:55 10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham.
I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest. Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: Clan Line on February 18, 2021, 15:56:04 10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham. I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest. Curses ! I was on the right track (quite literally !) - there is a very similar green bridge, in a cutting, at Corsham. Close examination on Street View showed it not be that one............I should have followed the line a bit further. Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: PrestburyRoad on February 18, 2021, 16:04:08 Quote 7 Correctly located to British Isles. Following up on this, close examination of the photograph shows a unit number is 29127. Wikipedia has an entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_29000_Class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE_29000_Class) and that fits with the British Isles. But I've no knowledge of railway stations on the island of Ireland so I'll let others identify the location. Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 18, 2021, 18:52:06 10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham. I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest. Yes - no fraud, especially as other have had plenty of time. I probably should have fuzzed the signal number. Three left to identify 3 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_03.jpg) 6 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_06.jpg) 7 (http://www.wellho.net/pix/q21_02_07.jpg) Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: Western Pathfinder on February 18, 2021, 19:00:45 No6.is the memorial at Glasgow Central Station it's at the concourse end of Platform One.
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: Surrey 455 on February 18, 2021, 19:35:15 10 is Saltford, between Oldfield Park and Keynsham. I feel a bit of a fraud putting this in, because I've never been there, but I used the signal number (BL1937) to get the general vicinity, then Google Maps did the rest. These photo quizzes used to be much easier when Graham would leave the GPS metadata in the photos. He doesn't do that any more. Shame. ;D ;D Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: PrestburyRoad on February 18, 2021, 20:15:26 3 is a cruise ship, probably a smaller one, possibly Fred Olsen. Oh did you want the port? - well it's not Wellington (New Zealand) but a smaller city somewhere.
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 18, 2021, 20:27:38 3 is a cruise ship, probably a smaller one, possibly Fred Olsen. Oh did you want the port? - well it's not Wellington (New Zealand) but a smaller city somewhere. Yes, about half the population of Wellington. Not Fred Olson, but, agreed now one of the huge ships. Now - bear in mind that they are all my pictures from the last 18 months or so and that I have posted pretty openly about where we have been. Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: eightonedee on February 18, 2021, 20:53:21 Is 3 St John's Newfoundland, rounding the headland near Signal Hill?
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 18, 2021, 21:53:46 No6.is the memorial at Glasgow Central Station it's at the concourse end of Platform One. Indeed. Makes you stop and reflect, that one Is 3 St John's Newfoundland, rounding the headland near Signal Hill? Spot on. Just 7 to go. Ireland correctly identified. Which station, anyone? Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: stuving on February 18, 2021, 21:57:54 Drogheda
Title: Re: Quiz for a dark February night - how good is your memory of places? Post by: grahame on February 19, 2021, 08:11:35 Drogheda Spot on! Quiz completed. We have a very wide range of geographic knowledge here (and some excellent online researchers ;D ) 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 |