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No. 1 I agree that it is definitely the foot crossing at Claverton Pumping station in the Avon valley.
No.2 is a Russian ICE-derivative. It is a high speed train so I think that would place it on the high speed route between Moscow and St Petersberg. And the weird looking (but actually rather elegant) OLE▸ support posts and the distinctive roof suggests that the train is at the Moscow terminus Passazhirskaya
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« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2015, 14:29:40 » |
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I'll change my mind now having studied the platform canopies at both Moskovsky Station, St Petersberg and Moscow Passazhirskaya, Moscow. I think Tim is right. The 'Sapsan' is in Moscow.
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and yet I'm struck that so many of the pictures show 3 car trains where today they might be 2 cars. Seems almost back to front in terms of the railway matching supply and demand.
Yep, 2 for 3 was the policy under 'sprinterisation". Though don't forget that the mid eighties was somewhat of a nadir in terms of the railway, and that was the only way which BR▸ could justify eliminating the life expired (and more) 1st generation dmu stock. |
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« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2015, 12:22:28 » |
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« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2015, 14:29:34 » |
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« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2015, 14:58:23 » |
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3rd December 2015: PhilWakely And you're going to be suggesting it was taken at Wake's Colne next |
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« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2015, 17:43:36 » |
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No 3 is not easy. The concrete sleepers and yellow lines suggest a main line. The red on the shelter perhaps suggest West Yorkshire PTE▸ area, but I give up!
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« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2015, 17:54:13 » |
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I have no idea but I'll have a go at No.3:
Tir-Phil
Wakefield Kirkgate
Lydney
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« Reply #23 on: December 03, 2015, 18:14:26 » |
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No 3 is not easy.
Alas, none of them is easy, Tim ...  (well, I don't think so!) ... but I would agree that I looked at No. 3 when I first saw it and thought it might prove to be one of the harder of a quite hard bunch. |
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« Reply #24 on: December 03, 2015, 18:43:22 » |
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I was thinking it was an electrified line but the wires in the picture are actually National Grid transmission lines not OLE▸ .
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« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2015, 22:47:18 » |
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Whilst this one is probably the hardest to identify, a clever search of the good old interwebby thing should help with clues from the picture. Just this once, however, I will post an extra picture from this location.......  |
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« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2015, 10:17:57 » |
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Completely out of thin air and no idea but could it be Newark Castle
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« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2015, 10:26:30 » |
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If it wasn't for the fact that I can read the word Departures on the noticeboard, I'd have said somewhere in moderately Eastern Europe, about 1994.
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« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2015, 11:47:23 » |
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If it wasn't for the fact that I can read the word Departures on the noticeboard, I'd have said somewhere in moderately Eastern Europe, about 1994.
Remember that in the Ruritanian langauge, the word 'Information' is spelt " Departures". The lack of accents normally seen on the word is due to it being used in the passive neuter case.  |
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« Reply #29 on: December 04, 2015, 12:37:02 » |
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Ah, you're forgetting that the orthographic reform removing those accents did not take effect until 1998. Therefore, I call bzdura!
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