What the Dickens?

want2workrail

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What the Dickens?

« on: August 19, 2018, 15:39:55 »

I am currently on the Severn Beach branch line for the first time. What are the great antennae-looking things as you look North between Redland and Montpellier?


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Red Squirrel

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Re: What the Dickens?

« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2018, 22:13:56 »

Ah, I'm surprised you noticed them - they are the teeny weeny floodlightettes at what I shall continue to refer to as the County Ground, home of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (I think the official name, this year, is the Poundland Woopsie Bargain Arena or something).


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Re: What the Dickens?

« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2018, 11:57:43 »

Quote from: want2workrail on August 19, 2018, 15:39:55

I am currently on the Severn Beach branch line for the first time. What are the great antennae-looking things as you look North between Redland and Montpellier?


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Re: What the Dickens?

« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2018, 12:16:34 »

Quote from: Red Squirrel on August 19, 2018, 22:13:56

I've always known it as Nevil Road, so as not to confuse it with the County Ground in Taunton, home to the superior Somerset CCC. Tongue

Although Somerset's ground has a silly sponsorship name too. Tommy Cooper Associates County Ground I think.


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Red Squirrel

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Re: What the Dickens?

« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2018, 19:27:32 »

Ah, I had heard that they play cricket in Somerset, but it's nice to have it confirmed by a local expert Wink


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