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« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2017, 20:41:11 » |
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I think 7 is Cheltenham Spa
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« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2017, 23:26:47 » |
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d, is Preston. Looks like the newly extended and rarely used platform 7 (mainly) southbound. The girders above the policemen's heads is where a divergence though to the L&Y side of the station (towards the photographer) went in its pre-1972 days. Platforms 5 and 6 now lengthened and straightened. So you're on you way home by my guess!
That girder would look much the same from the other side - from P4, where the Virgin trains do come in. That means P7 is in the background. Same change of trains on the way home, though. |
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« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2017, 00:20:22 » |
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5 just has to be Melksham, doesn't it? SWT▸ unit arriving, brand new shelter, just before dawn on the Friday.
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« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2017, 06:58:27 » |
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5 just has to be Melksham, doesn't it? SWT▸ unit arriving, brand new shelter, just before dawn on the Friday.
And that's a good start to putting the pictures in order  There's a few pictures yet (1, 4, b, i, k) which no-one has attempted to place; with all the other (bar one), the location where the picture was taken has been suggested. 1.  4.  b.  i.  k.  |
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« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2017, 08:20:19 » |
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d, is Preston. Looks like the newly extended and rarely used platform 7 (mainly) southbound. The girders above the policemen's heads is where a divergence though to the L&Y side of the station (towards the photographer) went in its pre-1972 days. Platforms 5 and 6 now lengthened and straightened. So you're on you way home by my guess!
That girder would look much the same from the other side - from P4, where the Virgin trains do come in. That means P7 is in the background. Same change of trains on the way home, though. I internally debated that possibility but it is the buildings in the background that look like the the NUR's main island building on platforms 3 & 4 and not the L&YR building (remains) on the east side. The lift shaft on the intervening platforms (5 & 6) are towards the centre of the station and the girders to the outside. Was has caused me anguish is the condition of the platform in the foreground. The old platform 7 (10 years ago) was a derelict short and curved remnant from the old L&YR station at which trains never stopped, nor was it numbered. But, as you say, on the way home. |
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« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2017, 08:57:17 » |
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1 looks like a London Midland 170 and b a GWR▸ 150, but I can't quite make out what might be beyond those windows... |
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« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2017, 09:26:10 » |
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I've found (well,Google did really) a few more pictures that show that girder - it's well towards the London end, and the lifts and subway are the other side of the first buildings on 3&4. So that square boarded pillar isn't a lift shaft.
And I've spotted something else in those pictures, too. Graham's no. 3 - which I don't think was guessed, so ought to have been repeated above - is also Preston: the railings on the big ramp from 3&4 up to the footbridge. The paintwork looks better in the older picture (from 2007), than now.
Of course there's no way of saying what order 3 and d come in!
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« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2017, 10:04:40 » |
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I thought that red (Lancastrian) rose looked familiar, and from the blue reflections on the iron work it looks like it might be taken in daylight, i.e. not flash. If so 3 is Preston on the way north in the daytime, and 'd' on the way home a subsequent evening.
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« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2017, 10:09:21 » |
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I thought that red (Lancastrian) rose looked familiar, and from the blue reflections on the iron work it looks like it might be taken in daylight, i.e. not flash. If so 3 is Preston on the way north in the daytime, and 'd' on the way home a subsequent evening.
Oddly, I looked at it and thought it was obviously taken under artificial light! It's these modern cameras, even ones in phones, that don't need flash even in quite poor indoor lighting. Anyway, the man says he didn't go that way on Friday, and there are limits to how sneaky (even) he would be (I hope). |
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« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2017, 16:21:11 » |
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Right, let's have a go at the order then, although I suspect this will need some tweaking!
5, j, 1, 2, k, e, g, c, 6, h, 3, d, 9, 8, 7, a, f, b, i, 4
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« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2017, 17:14:31 » |
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Right, let's have a go at the order then, although I suspect this will need some tweaking!
5, j, 1, 2, k, e, g, c, 6, h, 3, d, 9, 8, 7, a, f, b, i, 4
You are correct on that will need some tweaking - but not very much. An impressive first guess from a member with a reputation for knowing his places! |
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« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2017, 19:31:40 » |
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Hope your camera was ok after someone sneezed on it before taking picture b  Yes, I thought picture b was taken moments after an explosion in the local Fuzzy Felt factory.  |
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« Reply #27 on: January 11, 2017, 20:54:00 » |
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Hope your camera was ok after someone sneezed on it before taking picture b Yes, I thought picture b was taken moments after an explosion in the local Fuzzy Felt factory. And I thought grahame had captured an image of a group of Dr Who extras from the 1980s. The era when the budget for make-up was tens of pounds. |
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« Reply #28 on: January 11, 2017, 21:13:24 » |
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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.
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[quote ;Dauthor=Chris from Nailsea link=topic=17859.msg208094#msg208094 date=1484169204] Is i before b ? [/quote] Yes but only after C. |
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