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Here are some railway bridges to identify some still in use some out of use for many years.

Usual rules apply only one correct answer per person on the first day.

1,Bridge over part of the River Avon at Tewkesbury on the former branch to Upton upon Severn and Malvern:Richard Fairhurst
(https://i.ibb.co/frv2pPv/Q12.jpg)

2,Grosvenor Railway Bridge into Victoria:eXPassenger
(https://i.ibb.co/NKXCfy9/Q1.jpg)

3,Chelsea bridge West London Line:grahame
(https://i.ibb.co/6RCDxMf/Q2.jpg)

4,Fulham Railway Bridge District line Wimbledon Branch: paul7575 and Stuving
(https://i.ibb.co/6mqJHrY/Q3.jpg)

5,Dukes cut lock on the Oxford Canal Just south of Wolvercote Junction:Reading General
(https://i.ibb.co/frs1z6K/Q4.jpg)

6,The disused line linking the Cotswold Line to the Bicester line crosses the Oxford Canal:Richard Fairhurst
(https://i.ibb.co/zFxXdhk/Q5.jpg)

7,Shipston Tramway bridge Stratford on Avon: Prestbury Road
(https://i.ibb.co/nj6c8xJ/Q6.jpg)

8,Smugglers Lane on the sea wall west of Parsons tunnel: Stuving
(https://i.ibb.co/SN8h1V4/Q7.jpg)

9,Bridge over Oxford Canal on Former line from Kings Sutton Junction to Kingham:paul7575
(https://i.ibb.co/nk3GqHn/Q8.jpg)

10,Bridge over the Plym, seen from the A38 by Marsh Mills, Plymouth: DR7835
(https://i.ibb.co/bXXX9Hn/Q9.jpg)

11,ex Yealmpton branch over the River Plym: plymothian
(https://i.ibb.co/0n9NB3K/Q10.jpg)

12,Bridge over Oxford Canal on former Blenheim & Woodstock Branch at Shipton on Cherwell: ellendune
(https://i.ibb.co/PFCxPt8/Q11.jpg)

Guess on 9 S&D near Shepton?

7 is the Tramway Bridge at Stratford-Upon-Avon

Sorry No

Correct

11. ex Yealmpton branch over the River Plym.

3. Looks like the Battersea Rail Bridge on the West London Line

Sidenote - TonyN - huge "thank you" (and to eightonedee yesterday) for setting this advent quiz - great fun and a real pleasure to be able to take part for a change.  It's fun to set quizzes (hint to others) but funner if I can also take part occasionally.

2 Grosvenor Railway Bridge into Victoria.

One railway further up the river, I think - Fulham Bridge (at Putney Bridge, of course).

5 Dukes cut lock on the Oxford Canal? Just south of Wolvercote Junction?

You beat me to it by a couple of minutes!

6 is just north of there, where the disused line linking the Cotswold Line to the Bicester line crosses the Oxford Canal.

So it is. Well spotted.

Correct

3. Is the west london line but the bridge is officialy called Chelsea Bridge

See http://www.railwaydata.co.uk/bridges/overview/?ELR=WLL&RID=9 (http://www.railwaydata.co.uk/bridges/overview/?ELR=WLL&RID=9)

Stuving are you trying to correct Graham's answer or answer anouther question?

Correct

Correct

Correct

4. Fulham Railway, Putney Bridge (LU)?

Correct but I think Stuving also answered in post #8 above I may have to ask Graham to ajudicate :)

Ah, my mistake I just scanned through looking for a “4”…  :'(

Ah ... I think I would have to on balance to give it to paul7575 - on the grounds that I looked at stuving's post and understood it to be challenging my answer rather than answering the next picture, and Paul probably did the same.    It's "only" lighter side, so awards / honourable mention to both gentlemen, me thinks!

I think really the silly mistake was mine - in too much of a hurry - or it was a brilliant way of sabotaging my own efforts!

Is no 1 seamills?

Sorry No

Time for some clues to the remaining pictures

1.May the Forth 1471.

8.You would have got very wet here today.

9.A Through branch line serving a Cotswold Brewery village in its day.

10.I walked from Q11 via lunch at a National trust property.

12.Branch to Winstons birthplace.

I’ve got a couple, just waiting for tomorrow now… ;D

Likewise, I know 1 (because I've boated under it, on the way to turn round after the public moorings) and 12 (haven't actually boated past it but have walked it!), and if no one has got them by the time I log on tomorrow...

12. Remains of Cherwell Bridge at Shipston on Cherwell on the former Woodstock Branch near its junction with the Oxford to Banbury line. 

8. With the benefit of the clue for some reassurance (!), I think may be Dawlish.

Will accept that answer its at Shipton on Cherwell but is over the Oxford Canal not the river.

The Woodstock branch started at Kidlington station and ran alongside the main line until just north of the Cherwell bridge and then turned west to cross the canal here. The wide trackbed is still visible.

Not Quite

9. Disused Bridge, (or is it a viaduct), over the Cherwell just south of Kings Sutton, on the Banbury and Cheltenham Direct route. As seen from the canal towpath. Brewery clue is Hook Norton?

1 is Tewkesbury, where the old Ashchurch–Malvern line crosses the lower level of the River Avon. There's a mooring basin just beyond it, beneath the weir. We've often moored just downstream of the picture, by the 90s flats, then continued into the basin to turn round.

I should have checked the OS map. Google wrongly says River Cherwell!

It’s complicated along there, from memory I believe that is the original river channel through Shipton, or maybe just the bit through “Thrupp Wide”, but they built a new artificial channel to divert the main flow of the river.

Correct Brewery is Hook Norton. The bridge or viaduct had a metal span over the Oxford canal that has been removed. Picture taken from the towpath.

Just 8 and 10 to go and brooklea is very close on 8

10.  Bridge over the Plym, seen from the A38 by Marsh Mills, Plymouth (after lunch at Saltram!).

Correct

8 The presence of two phases to the bridges suggest the line has been doubled from 2 to 4 tracks, so perhaps Dawlish Warren?

For 8 - since it's the only one left there's no scope for a mistake this time - I'll go for the next one along again. The next separate place to Dawlish going south is Holcombe, and there's a brick-vaulted passageway for beach access and storm water egress on Smuggler's Lane that looks just right.

Correct


Stuving is correct. The reason for the two phases is the original atmospheric line was single track, it was later doubled.
This was also the site of Parsons tunnel box. Famous for being so small you had to take the armchair outside to turn it round.

That concudes yesterdays quiz.

Very enjoyable making the trips all of wich where this year and also running the quiz.

I will be back with a mixed bag quiz next Monday.

Tony, THANK YOU, look forward to seeing you next week

Just as an aside. I walked along part of the River Avon path at Sea Mills recently, which went under the railway line on the far side of the river Trym from Sea Mills station. Looking up at the bridge from the path, it looked in very poor condition, so much so that I would be quite worried next time I use the Severn Beach line in that area.