"Where are these" with a difference.

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[grahame]

Question says it all ... don't name them - come up with a number over the weekend.  On Monday I'll post the answers and then you can tell me how you actually did

[Chris from Nailsea]

Well, I've registered my bid (for a rather pitiful 2) for those pictures which I think I can identify ... 

That enabled me to see from the 'totals so far' that we, collectively, do seem to be struggling a bit on this one. 

I'm therefore going to offer my two identified locations, 'to encourage the others' (Voltaire):

In no particular order ... Melksham and Taunton. 

[johoare]

The two I voted that I might know were neither of those (altho actually I did assume those two would be in there somewhere...so maybe I should have been brave and guessed 4 :-))...

[grahame]

I have a theory that each of us only knows a very few of the images used in "what / where" is this competitions, and that it's only by combining the skills of everyone that we get a near-full set of answers developed.   So - although (as hinted by previous posters) there are many low votes, I'm not surprised.

Not tested here / with the question asked, but I also suspect that people can identify pictures of stations and trains at stations relatively easily, but that rail facilities just a few yards from the station can be tricky, lineside can be trickier, and (as a forum) our recognition of the places served by our trains is very thin indeed.

I'll be adding a list of where each picture was taken overnight tonight - if you haven't voted yet, please do so (it's a secret vote) and by doing so you'll help form another picture.   Thanks!

[Brucey]

I'm a little more daring and have gone for three.  I can also name the LU line, but not the station

[Phil]

Six, although I'm afraid I can't see how to vote in the poll and haven't time to faff about clicking randomly at the moment

[grahame]

Six, although I'm afraid I can't see how to vote in the poll and haven't time to faff about clicking randomly at the moment

Good question - others may be having trouble with our polls as we've never written an FAQ^▸ (Frequently Asked Questions).

1. Click on the little circular thingummy that's to the left of the option of your choice.
2. Press the "submit vote" button that's just below all the options listed.

Some other polls allow multiple choices to be selected (in item 1) before you select item 2

[thetrout]

Missed the closing poll by 5 minutes But I reckon i've got a good 4, but suspect I know a further 2. I'd like to say 3, but the LM^▸ (London Midland - recent franchise) 153 on Platform 3 really has caught me out! Even though I know i've been there!!

[grahame]

1. Westbury
2. Taunton
3. Lackham (near Lacock, near Thingley Junction, between Chippenham and Melksham)
4. Broughton Gifford between Melksham and Trowbridge
5. Kennet and Avon Canal near Trowbridge
6. Sorry - it's a model railway
7. Green Park station, Bath
8. Weymouth
9. Foxhangers, near Devizes
10. King's Cross

Many thanks for completing the poll ... rather confirms my guess that most of us who look at these quizzes only recognise a few of the places.

One or two were quite easy ... ranging to one or two which I would be amazed if anyone got. And I went pretty wide on my "transport and related linking to the South West" theme.

[JayMac]

I went for 4 and I got them right. They were; 1. Westbury, 2. Taunton, 7. Bath Green Park, and 10. King's Cross St Pancras Underground.

[Phil]

I was right, I got six! Well, if we include the model railway, which I contend was located in Melksham when you took the photograph (irrespective of where the model depicts, it was in Melksham at the time - specifically, in the Christie Miller Centre in Bowerhill)

[grahame]

... if we include the model railway, which I contend was located in Melksham when you took the photograph ...

it was.

[Chris from Nailsea]

I went for 6. Melksham for exactly the same reason as Phil ... 

[thetrout]

I got (1) Westbury (2) Taunton (4) Broughton Gifford and ( Weymouth*

Was wrong on 3rd, 6th and 7th.

The 3rd I thought was somewhere near Pewsey; I had a suspicion it was one of the Forum walks that took place!

6th I had an idea was the Model Railway at Longleat... Was there at any point grahame? looks very similar...

7th my suspicions were Brighton... Wrong!

* = When I first saw that picture my brain said Weymouth, but then for some reason I decided it couldn't be Weymouth... Should have remembered what my Cisco Teacher taught me: "When posed with a question, the first answer your brain comes up with is highly likely to be right!" as an aside, I also remember he told me for that reason, during the multiple choice exam not to change your first answers unless they were blindly obviously wrong!