Great Western Coffee Shop

Mixed Bag Quiz

Identify the location of the pictures. The interior pictures are at National Rail stations.

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

1,View from A4260 bridge at Kidlington, looking south towards Oxford: DR7835
(https://i.ibb.co/MCd9VRN/Q1.jpg)

2,Lady Foley's Tea Room, Great Malvern station: Brooklea
(https://i.ibb.co/P5kn8qL/Q2.jpg)

3,Dawlish: Rob on the hill
(https://i.ibb.co/7KSDdVP/Q3.jpg)

4,The Great Western pub on the Oxford Canal at Aynho: Witham Bobby
(https://i.ibb.co/JQdfjxW/Q4.jpg)

5,Marsh Mills Plymouth: plymothian
(https://i.ibb.co/ypDtXG9/Q5.jpg)

6,The Draughtsman Alehouse at Doncaster: RA
(https://i.ibb.co/6HXNNLs/Q6.jpg)

7,Penrith: Stuving
(https://i.ibb.co/fQVVGRF/Q7.jpg)

8,Wigan North Western: ellendune
(https://i.ibb.co/Mnv4R7n/Q8.jpg)

9,Strand Road, Preston and the line leading into the docks and Ribble Steam Railway: Oxenhutch
(https://i.ibb.co/BTVSD9J/Q9.jpg)

10,Cholsey & Wallingford from the Church Road bridge outside Cholsey: eightonedee
(https://i.ibb.co/C1fTcJs/Q10.jpg)

11,The Station Hotel Penrith: Oxenhutch
(https://i.ibb.co/h9Pt2Nt/Q11.jpg)

12,former Aynho station on the Oxford/Banbury line: paul7575
(https://i.ibb.co/7kLhCf0/Q12.jpg)

Hamble? Probably a bit out of area.

12. Henbury?

Taking the easiest one (when you don’t know!), 2. Great Malvern  :D

12. Melksham, double track  ;D

Sorry none of the pictures are of Hamble.


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9.  A wild guess.  Is this where the Minehead line - the West Somerset Railway - crosses a main road?  I only suggest this because there's a level crossing on that railway that has been discussed earlier this year.

Sorry no

I'm hearing they just sent in Question 13:

(https://www.european-business.com/fileadmin/european-business/unternehmen/193817_compagnie-du-chemin/compagnie-du-chemin-de-fer-montreux-train-8.jpg)

5.  Marsh Mills (2?) level crossing, Coypool Road

9: Strand Road, Preston and the line leading into the docks and Ribble Steam Railway

12, former Aynho station on the Oxford/Banbury line.

Academic now, but you probably need to include the number you want to answer…  ;D

4.  By the B4031 bridge over the Oxford Canal, near to Aynho Junction.  And also near the Great Western pub.

Would you drink at a pub displaying a caution signal?  ;D

It’s possibly a reminder the pub sign train is on the wrong track…

It this the Grobs, on their epic journey in which they discovered Devon?

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I should have twigged on that one as I've been sat at the same table as the chap in the photo.

7. Penrith.

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1. Cornwall mainline, betweeen Redruth and Camborne

3. Dawlish

10 (possibly) Cholsey & Wallingford from the Church Road bridge outside Cholsey (although I would have expected a large pylon or two in the background)

Sorry no

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There's certainly a pylon in that view, so where did it go? Partly it's the reduced resolution to give 800 px across, but that's not all. I took a Google earth picture that matches and clearly shows the pylon against the sky, and reduced the resolution to match, at it's still visible (if fuzzy). And so is the OLE on the "big" railway, though I guess TonyN's picture could predate that. So I imagine the vanishing act must be down to the colour and contrast processing, in some way, plus a bit of JPEG compression trickery.

In the original picture I can just spot the pylon but it is amongst a tree.

The picture was taken in April when I was still using my old Sony E5 phone so about 5 years out of date.


See attached. I have enlarged the original image and circled the top of the pylon and a gantry on the railway. I am not sure if the gantry is OLE or a signal gantry.

The gantry above is at the end of the OLE wire run, hence the angled stays to hold it vertical. I think the wire run tensioners are even visible on Google satellite view.

Time for some clues to the remaining pictures

1.Largest village in England?

6.They could have been designing Trains or Tractors.

8.it's not really a pier.

11.A swift one could have been consumed here by clerics changing on their way to an annual conference.

1.  View from A4260 bridge at Kidlington, looking south towards Oxford.

8. Wigan North Western ?

That's not the same pylon! The one I was talking about is the next one to the right, which has no trees to hide behind. And more OLE should be visible further right within the same framing too.

I haven't been there for a while but picture 6  appears to me to have been taken inside The Draughtsman Alehouse at Doncaster.

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11, The Station Hotel in Penrith

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I always seem to go to places on dustbin day.
The pictures at Preston Penrith and Wigan where all taken the same day. I was trying out the new Transpennine 397s. With a much reduced timetable that ment I spent a lot of time in Preston instead of having time for lunch in Penrith, as originaly planned 18 months earlier.

That concludes this weeks quiz I will be back next Monday.Thanks for taking part.

Fifty odd years ago this crossing looked a lot different, no trees and starkly industrial with the railway disappearing into the dockland through large gates in an eight foot high corrugated iron fence with large warehouses behind one of which I think may still have borne the owner’s name in large fading letters: Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.  There were no crossing lights either, just a man in a dark greatcoat and a red flag walking ahead of the train. It was an odd joint railway too between the North Union Railway (itself a joint company) and Preston Corporation as owners of the docks.