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Title: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 04, 2009, 23:23:26 I suspect this will be quite hard ... anyone able to place it from the first picture?
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto.jpg) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: Btline on April 04, 2009, 23:48:08 Swindon?
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 04, 2009, 23:58:52 Nope - not Swindon
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 05, 2009, 11:55:29 No-one got that for "six points" ... here's another picture and it's now worth five
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto2.jpg) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: devon_metro on April 05, 2009, 14:45:40 Maiden Newton?
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 05, 2009, 17:28:07 Maiden Newton? No ... but I can see (from what I have heard of Maiden Newton) why it might look like that. Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: Btline on April 05, 2009, 17:29:37 Marizon?
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 05, 2009, 17:34:40 Marizon? Sorry, no, but a good thought (and somewhere else on my list to look around one of these years!) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on April 05, 2009, 20:24:35 Hello - there isn't supposed to be a home page in this directory, so we're rather baffled as to how you got here but you're very welcome.
We provide training courses on Python, Perl, PHP, Tomcat, Java, MySQL, Linux and Tcl/Tk, with public classes held at our Melksham, Wiltshire, England training centre and private courses available on site throughout the UK and the rest of Europe. For a longer course, we'll travel further afield too. Please select this link to go to the main Well House Consultants home page. so basically i dont know ;) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 05, 2009, 20:54:55 Hello - there isn't supposed to be a home page in this directory, so we're rather baffled as to how you got here but you're very welcome. We provide training courses on Python, Perl, PHP, Tomcat, Java, MySQL, Linux and Tcl/Tk, with public classes held at our Melksham, Wiltshire, England training centre and private courses available on site throughout the UK and the rest of Europe. For a longer course, we'll travel further afield too. Please select this link to go to the main Well House Consultants home page. so basically i dont know ;) Ah - you've been trying the old trick of taking the image name off the end of the URL for the image and seeing what the directory home page says, haven't you. Thanks for the "plug" for my business ;D ;D And the image name is designed to be unhelpful too. Next clue ... did you see this: (http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto3.jpg) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: devon_metro on April 05, 2009, 21:22:58 Corsham?
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 05, 2009, 21:37:42 Corsham? Nope ... but I can see your logic and there are some things that link this location to Corsham (and some that do not) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 06, 2009, 08:48:02 Fourth picture ...
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto4.jpg) And there are some interesting clues in there. Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 06, 2009, 13:08:37 And the final two pictures that I prepared earlier. Any ideas, anyone?
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto5.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto6.jpg) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: thetrout on April 06, 2009, 13:19:41 Somewhere near Wotton Basset??
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: Phil on April 06, 2009, 13:27:04 I'd say out near Frome somewhere - the landscape looks a bit flat for Wooton Bassett, more Somerset than Wiltshire?
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: thetrout on April 06, 2009, 13:36:52 Having read Phil's post and looked at the picture with the Class 66 Loco, I would rule out Frome because I have never known Frieghtliner locos to work Torr Works or Merehead Quarries... It's mainly EWS, Hanson, Yeomans & Mendip Rail locos that provide the traction for the workings.
However gramhame did point out that Corsham was relevant, So as he says, this is a tricky one! Although nobody has worked out #9 in my Puzzle Edition 1 :D Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 06, 2009, 14:20:40 I'm going back to have a look at that #9 in a minute ... and I'll add some more pictures taken within a couple of hundred yards or my previous ones; I'm trying to make all my clues more pictorial. Not Frome, Not Wotton Bassett ..
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto7.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto8.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/vto9.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/vtoa.jpg) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 07, 2009, 03:00:58 ... in fact so tricky that no-one's got it. It's Patney and Chirton on the Berks and Hants - the place where the original line ran to Devizes and on to Holt on the still-just-open-for-passengers Chippenham to Trowbridge line. So very close to home for me!
I was somewhat surprised that Google didn't find much about the place - few pictures if any - so I've documented my "where is this" series on my own web site - see http://www.wellho.net/share/patneyandchirton.html Like Corsham, it's an old Wiltshire station site at a former junction, where mainline trains rush by and it seems that no-one remembers the place as railway-significant any more. Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: Electric train on April 07, 2009, 19:09:03 Link here to what used to be like http://www.readingpsb.org/patney__chirton_sb1.htm (http://www.readingpsb.org/patney__chirton_sb1.htm) I assume the bridge in Grahame's photos is the original station platform over bridge
Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 07, 2009, 20:21:03 Indeed - from the caption to photo 2 on that site: "The only part of the station that remains after the fall of the Beeching axe is the footbridge." ::)
Thanks, grahame - that was particularly obscure, especially for me, as I wasn't even looking over your shoulder when you took those photos! ;) :D ;D Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 07, 2009, 21:33:39 Here is the old and new
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/oldpatney_s.jpg) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/newpatney_s.jpg) The old picture is reproduced from the D E Canning collection with permission of the copyright holder; the new picture I took on Saturday last. Thanks, Electric Train, for helping me make the connection. Chris - it was a pretty desolate spot! Just me and my father there. No-one else fromthe forum at all (unless any happened to be on that 125!) Title: Re: Very tricky one? Post by: grahame on April 07, 2009, 22:25:23 And I can now link to my Devizes Branch page from Saturday:
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