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« on: April 14, 2018, 17:12:39 »

Some nice fresh ballast, ready for track - maybe even a station. But where's it to?

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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2018, 17:54:09 »

The Filton Bank? Constable Road?
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2018, 18:33:51 »

Some nice fresh ballast, ready for track - maybe even a station. But where's it to?

Stapleton Road or Lawrence Hill ?
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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2018, 18:54:26 »

In yer back garden having surreptitiously raided the Network Rail compound in the dead of night?  Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2018, 19:13:28 »


Looks like the sea wall  at Dawlish

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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2018, 19:55:42 »

Is it covering an enormous pothole?
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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2018, 21:22:46 »

Saw it all today, together with the fresh sleepers Wink
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« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2018, 22:46:14 »

Not Filton Bank, not Dawlish - but somewhere in Bristol
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« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2018, 13:24:59 »

Saw it all today, together with the fresh sleepers Wink

The sleepers used here will be distinctly stale.
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« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2018, 13:26:28 »

Clifton Rocks Railway?    Hard to see the angle of the picture.
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« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2018, 14:15:41 »

I'm toying with the notion that it is not Network Rail and trying to think if I have seen anything being done recently to the Bristol Port Railway.
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« Reply #11 on: April 15, 2018, 15:13:31 »

Ooh, now you're getting very warm johnneyw...
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« Reply #12 on: April 15, 2018, 15:42:30 »

Here goes, the Bristol Port Railway near the where there have been repairs to the Chocolate Path? Stale sleepers, stale Chocolate?  See how I referenced your earlier clue?
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« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2018, 17:09:52 »

Close enough. It's the area between 'A' Bond and Cumberland Road. All the old track is piled up, along with the steel framework of the platform, where it was pushed aside to make way for JustaBus®. Not sure when they plan to put it back, but there's a nice bed for it when they do...

JustaBus is not really a registered trade mark.
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« Reply #14 on: April 16, 2018, 13:33:54 »

JustaBus is not really a registered trade mark.
You could register it yourself.  Cheesy
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