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« Reply #75 on: August 26, 2018, 20:35:04 »

No.15.  Sorry BNM, its Ireland again Roll Eyes    I can tell from the type of signal arm.  But exactly where.....

Ah, I was only one letter and an ampersand out. The GS&WR (of old).
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« Reply #76 on: August 26, 2018, 20:35:38 »

No.16 Well of course you would expect me to know THAT ONE.  I'll let somebody else have a go....

Following ones will be trickier.
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« Reply #77 on: August 26, 2018, 20:40:58 »

16 Barnstaple Town
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« Reply #78 on: August 26, 2018, 20:43:04 »

16. Somewhere between 34019 and 34046. So it must be 34005.
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« Reply #79 on: August 26, 2018, 20:44:52 »

16 Barnstaple Town

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« Reply #80 on: August 26, 2018, 20:46:23 »

16. Somewhere between 34019 and 34046. So it must be 34005.

Clever ... YOU are sending ME looking for West Country list!
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« Reply #81 on: August 26, 2018, 20:55:09 »

No.17 What no signal or signalbox?  I'm completely stumped.... Grin
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« Reply #82 on: August 26, 2018, 20:56:23 »

I'm disappointed SandTengineer, normally you could look at the shade of black paint used on the back of the signal, or the type of weed growing in front of the signal, and then tell us where the location is, and the exact date it was installed, the date it was commissioned and what the exact time of the first train to be signalled through it, with a detailed description of said first train as well!  Cheesy

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Perhaps I'm getting too old for all this S&T (Signalling and Telegraph) mularky.  Last Saturday I passed into my 50th year of working in the S&T industry Roll Eyes
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« Reply #83 on: August 27, 2018, 09:17:40 »

So many comments that the current Bank Holiday Bonanza picture has slipped back onto the previous page ... so here it is again and as it's a very difficult one indeed, I've added a couple of others ... so you can answer in parallel (or is it in trimode).  I have another a few more pictures lined up to get through by the end of the Bank Holi(day) ... from the sublimely easy to the ridiculously difficult.

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« Reply #84 on: August 27, 2018, 11:08:26 »

17 Wild,wild guess Cambridge Guided Bus way.

I think I saw something like on TV's best village competition (Penelope Keith)
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« Reply #85 on: August 27, 2018, 11:22:04 »

17 Wild,wild guess Cambridge Guided Bus way.

I think I saw something like on TV's best village competition (Penelope Keith)

Brave attempt ... thank you.  But, alas, wrong country.   Perhaps I should look and see if I have a signal photo from nearby, or some pictures of the bridges or OHL (Over-Head Line) gear to help our international experts.
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« Reply #86 on: August 27, 2018, 11:50:42 »

Well I knew you liked it.  Grin
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« Reply #87 on: August 27, 2018, 12:16:52 »

19: Southern California from the top deck of the Metro
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« Reply #88 on: August 27, 2018, 12:56:38 »

17 ...  is nowhere near Cambridge North

18 ... I am amazed no-one has told me straight away

19 ... is indeed on the Southern California (Los Angeles) Metro - though well outside LA itself.

No specific place names yet on any of the three.

Here are a couple of pictures close by no. 17 - the next station (not Pilning in 2020), and a picture I took last year which is very close by.

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« Reply #89 on: August 27, 2018, 16:36:28 »

No.18 River Tavy Bridge on the Gunnislake branch (looking out to the river Tamar).
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