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Where are these ... each in FGW▸ territory this time. One each please. 1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  |
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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2013, 22:19:38 » |
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6 is Twyford, looking at a train coming in from the Henley branch.
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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2013, 22:26:43 » |
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Number 1 is Swindon.
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2013, 22:45:28 » |
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7. Kemble. The old Tetbury Branch platform.  |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2013, 23:49:49 » |
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2. Pewsey
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2013, 23:55:49 » |
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5) Chippenham |
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2013, 02:54:58 » |
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All correct so far
1 Swindon
2 Pewsey
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5 Chippenham
6 Twyford
7 Kemble
Just 3 and 4 to go!
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2013, 08:08:59 » |
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3 is just outside Old Oak Common, towards Paddington- near Ladbroke Grove?
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2013, 09:07:27 » |
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4 - somewhere on the Exmouth branch? I'd have a guess at the Lympstone Commando area.
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2013, 09:18:21 » |
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Neither of those guesses is right, I'm afraid ... but then the late night crew took the easy ones and left the difficult questions for the morning.
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2013, 09:52:03 » |
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Hi
Is no3 somewhere on the Bristol Triangle ?
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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2013, 10:05:52 » |
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Hi
Is no3 somewhere on the Bristol Triangle ?
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Yes, indeed. It was taken from a the train coming off the Rhubarb loop, back in the days when it ran northbound. And I believe the junction being approached is Dr Day's Bridge Junction. Who was Dr Day? |
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2013, 10:40:25 » |
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Dr William Edward Day, was, I believe, a nineteenth century doctor who was known locally for his quack medical practices. He believed in the curative properties of rhubarb. He lived near the location of the junction in Barrow Road.
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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2013, 22:18:14 » |
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Dr William Edward Day, was, I believe, a nineteenth century doctor who was known locally for his quack medical practices. He believed in the curative properties of rhubarb. He lived near the location of the junction in Barrow Road.
He did indeed live nearby. He was the first Vicar of the then new parish of St Luke's Barton Hill. His vicarage was a former country house now 60 Barton Hill Road. Sadly the house is a shadow of its former glory, but it is still there. For more information see http://www.bhhg.co.uk/showfiles.php?files=Barton%20Hill%20Vicarage |
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« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2013, 23:18:47 » |
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Amazing that a local history group gets this wrong. I quote from the link (for which thanks)
'St. Lukes Vicarage is situated on the corner of Maze Street and Barton Hill Road'
It's nowhere near Maze Street. If you Google Earth with '60, Barton Hill Road' and then Street View it, you will see why.
I understand loco crews called the chord, the 'rhubarb curve' or similar. It had to do with the adjacent pub I believe, to which a quick dodge could be made while awaiting a path on the South Wales to South Coast coal trains.
My father was born in Barton Hill. He attended St Peters before the war as head choirboy (now WW2-ruined on 'Castle Park' in the centre of Bristol) because St Lukes was considered too down-market. The real reason was that St Peters (a businessman's church in the City proper) paid choir boys handsomely, so well worth the two mile walk on a Sunday from Barton Hill.
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