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Author Topic: Rhydgaled Exploring Picture Quiz  (Read 11373 times)
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« on: June 06, 2012, 01:21:17 »

I headed off on an explore on Saturday, returning today. My pictures are rather large, so I'll link to them rather than post them here. Who can guess/tell were they were taken (I'll add descriptions as correct guesses come in, and might upload some more snaps when they are all done)?

Picture 1 - Carlisle bignosemac (after I posted a second picture of the location as a clue)
Picture 2 - Settle Worcester_Passenger, who went one better than me and identified the building in the background as Giggleswick school chapel
Picture 3 - Class 395 - NRM» (National Railway Museum, at York and Shildon - about) York (railfest) bignosemac / EBrown
Picture 4 - Class 91 - NRM York (railfest) bignosemac
Picture 5 - Llansteffan Castle from Ferryside grahame (he said Laugharne, which isn't quite correct but I decided to give him it anyway)
Picture 6 - Stokesay Castle (near Craven Arms) Worcester_Passenger
Picture 7 - I'm not sure if I remember this one myself now
Picture 8 - Taken from the Swansea avoiding Line behind Llandore depot Oxman

Note: these aren't necessarily listed in the order taken. If some are easy and others hard, it might help to try and work out my route from the easy ones and hence deduce where the others might be.
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2012, 09:23:46 »

Finding it hard to reconcile ECML (East Coast Main Line) with West Wales.
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2012, 09:58:24 »

Finding it hard to reconcile ECML (East Coast Main Line) with West Wales.
Ok, sounds like a very slight clue is in order.

Picture 2 may look a bit like it was taken in my home country (Wales), but it wasn't. I traveled out of Wales on Saturday, and didn't go back into Wales until yesterday (5th June). In other words, I had three nights in hotels in England.
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« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2012, 10:45:05 »

Picture 3 is a Class 395 'Javelin' - Can you take more than one guess?
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2012, 11:15:27 »

Concur that picture 3 is a Class 395 and I suspect it was taken in the same location as the Class 91 in picture 4.....


.... York.
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« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2012, 11:19:19 »

Picture 3 is a Class 395 'Javelin' - Can you take more than one guess?
Correct. That is only half the answer to that picture though, the other part is where was this particular 395 when I took the picture?

Yes, you may take more guesses, but it might be a good idea to wait 24hrs when you make a correct guess to give others a chance (though since you only half-got this one, feel free to make another guess right away).
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« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2012, 11:20:57 »

Concur that picture 3 is a Class 395 and I suspect it was taken in the same location as the Class 91 in picture 4.....


.... York.
Correct, class 91 and 395 both taken at railfest, NRM» (National Railway Museum, at York and Shildon - about) York.
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« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2012, 11:26:10 »

Correct, class 91 and 395 both taken at railfest, NRM» (National Railway Museum, at York and Shildon - about) York.

Obviously helped that I was there this past Saturday! Really is nowhere else you can get that close to have the Class 91 spec plate at head height!

I also took a similar picture of the 395 interior.
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« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2012, 11:28:40 »

the other part is where was this particular 395 when I took the picture?
It was obviously York; the CIS (Customer Information System) isn't on and passengers don't tend to stand when they are actually moving!
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2013, 18:17:15 »

Hmm. Rhydgaled has mentioned elsewhere that we still haven't identified the locations of several of his pictures here, so I thought I'd have another try.

But I still can't get any of the unsolved ones: would anyone else care to have a go?  Wink
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2013, 18:34:05 »

Ok will try Number 8: Swansea, somewhere near Landore. Liberty stadium in the background?
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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2013, 18:35:36 »

6 is Stokesay Castle, just south of Craven Arms
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2013, 18:44:05 »

5 - Laugharne?
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2013, 18:49:58 »

I'm in agreement with Oxman about Picture 8. Looks like it may have been taken from a train travelling on the west side of the Landore triangle.
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2013, 20:40:56 »

Once again Worcester_Passenger beats me to it. We must know the same places.
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