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« Reply #75 on: December 14, 2017, 16:57:49 » |
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« Reply #76 on: December 14, 2017, 17:38:49 » |
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I thought that was bought by someone in America!  So Arizona then ... |
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« Reply #77 on: December 14, 2017, 17:39:57 » |
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Were you testing your new pen-camera at the Babbacombe Model Village?
...Taunton.... Not Babbacome. I don't think I took that one in Taunton ... need to go back and check Edit to addNo - not Taunton |
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« Reply #78 on: December 14, 2017, 17:41:24 » |
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I thought that was bought by someone in America! So Arizona then ... So did he (the chap in Arizona). However, his story at having bought that particular piece has now been proven to be a fake news story. |
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« Reply #79 on: December 14, 2017, 20:48:39 » |
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We all know where it is but someone has to say it. Tower Bridge, London - Presumably taken from a river boat
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I like to travel. It lets me feel I'm getting somewhere.
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« Reply #80 on: December 14, 2017, 22:20:54 » |
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We all know where it is but someone has to say it. Tower Bridge, London - Presumably taken from a river boat
Thanks, Roger - yes indeed, and correct in suggesting t was taken from a boat - the river bus which Lisa and I caught a fortnight ago out to North Greenwich. Came back on the 188 bus - much slower but much cheaper. Could also have used the Jubillee line. |
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« Reply #81 on: December 15, 2017, 00:45:56 » |
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...Taunton.... Hah dee hah hah! The River Tone flowing through Taunton doesn't require a bridge anything like that big - even I know that.   |
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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 #82 on: December 15, 2017, 05:32:48 » |
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« Reply #83 on: December 15, 2017, 08:46:13 » |
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Is it Dovey Junction?
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« Reply #84 on: December 15, 2017, 09:05:04 » |
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Is it Dovey Junction?
It is indeed ... a remote spot in the middle of the valley of the river Dyfi - as I recall with the picture taken from the curved platform on the line toward Pwhelli across to the very long platform on the Aberystwyth line. The layout here is similar to Penryn - a single platform with two ends, one for trains headed each way and a loop that come in in the middle. Access (apart from rail industry vehicles) is by footpath only, and the ORR» figures show that interchanges are more than twice the number of entranced and exits (for every 5 people who get off a train, 4 are rejoining a train to carry on their journey). Ten journeys were attributed to season tickets in the latest figures, which means that someone bought a week's season ticket from or to Dovey Junction! |
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« Reply #85 on: December 15, 2017, 09:20:56 » |
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Is it Dovey Junction?
It is indeed ... a remote spot in the middle of the valley of the river Dyfi - as I recall with the picture taken from the curved platform on the line toward Pwhelli across to the very long platform on the Aberystwyth line. The layout here is similar to Penryn - a single platform with two ends, one for trains headed each way and a loop that come in in the middle. Access (apart from rail industry vehicles) is by footpath only, and the ORR» figures show that interchanges are more than twice the number of entranced and exits (for every 5 people who get off a train, 4 are rejoining a train to carry on their journey). Ten journeys were attributed to season tickets in the latest figures, which means that someone bought a week's season ticket from or to Dovey Junction! Perhaps someone who was entranced by the scenery? |
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« Reply #86 on: December 16, 2017, 11:32:43 » |
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« Reply #87 on: December 16, 2017, 16:35:34 » |
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The now saved Breich station ?.
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« Reply #88 on: December 16, 2017, 17:38:49 » |
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The now saved Breich station ?.
Correct. The walk there from Fauldhouse was far longer than I had expected from comment read ahead of time -you can't believe everything you read online. Considering that I was walking in considerable pain and with the aid of a stick in late August, it was a good job I didn't visit until the autumn! I won't go so far as to say "no station should ever close" but having read about this proposal and also taken a look, I came to a personal view that there were too many remaining question marks and possibilities for the finality of a closure. In " GWR▸ land" I'm far better informed - through this forum, other sources, and personal visits - about just about every station served, and I'm relieved that no precent has been set at Breich. Outside GWR land, there are a handful I really wonder about, but that's not a direction to head today. |
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« Reply #89 on: December 17, 2017, 13:12:11 » |
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