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Sixteen pictures with something in common. Firstly, can you identify the locations - one guess each for the first 24 hours, please! 0 - Matlock - Phil Farmer with help from Stuving 0.  1 - Southampton Central - Brooklea 1.  2 - Edinburgh Waverley - Stuving 2.  3.  4 - Chippenham - Bmblbzzz confirmed by bobm 4.  5 - Taunton - Chris fron Nailsea 5.  6 - Westbury - BandHcommuter 6.  7. London Euston - BigNoseMac 7.  8 Paddington - Surrey 455 8.  9 - Fauldhouse - Stuving 9.  a - Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) - SandTEngineer a.  b - Edinburgh Park - Rogerw b.  c - Glasgow Central - Western Pathfinder c.  d - Bristol Temple Meads - Red Squirrel d.  e - Duffield - ChrisB e.  f - Oxford - Ellendune f.  |
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2017, 20:28:26 » |
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7. London Euston
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
- Sir Terry Pratchett.
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2017, 20:31:52 » |
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d is the Fish Dock at Temple Meads
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2017, 20:32:54 » |
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16. I mean f. (Good use of the hexadecimal system here) is Oxford Station - The bay platforms for Marylebone trains with the new accommodation block taking shape in the background.
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2017, 20:34:02 » |
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f is Oxford
b Edinburgh?
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2017, 20:40:47 » |
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4 makes me think Chippenham, though I doubt that's actually the answer!
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Waiting at Pilning for the midnight sleeper to Prague.
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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2017, 20:45:53 » |
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a = Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level)
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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2017, 20:48:43 » |
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Has Chippenham really got two of those new touch-screen ticket machines
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« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2017, 21:00:47 » |
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e is Duffield, where you changed trains to heritage railway after the ACORP▸ awards
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« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2017, 21:09:44 » |
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8 is Paddington
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Western Pathfinder
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« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2017, 21:12:49 » |
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No 8 is the ramp up to praed St from Paddington.
Blast beaten to it by Surrey well done.
Might be a bit cheeky here and have another go
C Glasgow Central Station.
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« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2017, 22:02:28 » |
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4 makes me think Chippenham, though I doubt that's actually the answer!
4 is definitely Chippenham. Was being interviewed on the radio there the other week extoling the virtue of how the station had a bus terminal outside and level access to the platform when a bloke on a noisy motorbike promptly cycled past me and parked his machine adjacent to the machines live on air!! |
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« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2017, 01:05:09 » |
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Mostly right and I have added in correct station names where those answers have been given, onto the original post to help you see what remains to answer. Quite happy for people to have a second go if they're "pipped to the post" or confirming something that's already guessed as well.
Two new machines for tickets have indeed appeared at Chippenham, and the (old) ticket office has been closed for refurbishment. There's a temporary ticket office in the forecourt, with passengers entering the station though the night gate at present.
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« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2017, 07:48:09 » |
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Two new machines for tickets have indeed appeared at Chippenham, and the (old) ticket office has been closed for refurbishment. There's a temporary ticket office in the forecourt, with passengers entering the station though the night gate at present.
Very interesting that the front panel of those two machines at Chippenham is offering three tickets (the commonest for single click purchase?) ... Day returns to Bath Spa, to Bristol Temple Meads, and to Swindon. Confirmation (as if we needed it!) that the majority of purchases are westward rather than to the east, and local rather that Londonist. |
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« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2017, 09:01:04 » |
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b Edinburgh Park
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I like to travel. It lets me feel I'm getting somewhere.
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