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Author Topic: Where was Phil? Tuesday 26th March 2019.  (Read 1750 times)
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« on: March 26, 2019, 16:37:50 »

A nice easy one for most of you......... and probably not the wisest choice for me, recovering as I am from a spell in hospital with full-on Flu and Pneumonia [and now Shingles  Sad ]



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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2019, 17:57:16 »

Somewhere very near to Gretna Green ?
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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2019, 17:58:33 »

Somewhere very near to Gretna Green ?

No!
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2019, 18:06:03 »

Then somewhere along Hadrians Wall ?
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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2019, 18:11:51 »

Then somewhere along Hadrians Wall ?
You are very approximately 400 miles out.
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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2019, 20:09:07 »

Sorry to hear of your malaise.  I had shingles when I was 16 - only to be told by the doctor it was very rare in teenagers!
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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2019, 20:09:46 »

There is a "Scotland" and an "Ireland" near Westbury .... but no Park and Ride yet ... so not there.

There is a park and ride and a station at Swindon, but a "New Zealand" not a Scotland near there.

400 miles from Gretna Green ... Truro?
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« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2019, 21:13:33 »

Corfe.

Not the same sign but here's one I took back in 2014
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2019, 21:17:02 »

I concur. I have a picture of one of those signs too, somewhere. The 'Park & Ride' refers to the facility at Norden and the 'Railway Station' is on the Swanage Railway.

Quite why the tiny hamlet (a farm and not much else) of Scotland has been signposted in several places is a bit of a mystery. There's nothing there as far as I can tell. Perhaps a little joke on the part of the folk responsible for commissioning the signs.
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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2019, 21:34:00 »

I took that photo just after getting off the bus at the National Trust Car Park. Google street view here.
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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2019, 21:40:10 »

Corfe.
I concur. I have a picture of one of those signs too, somewhere. The 'Park & Ride' refers to the facility at Norden and the 'Railway Station' is on the Swanage Railway.

Yup!  see here!

Took a trip to Corfe Castle to phot a visiting BR (British Rail(ways)) Standard tank engine...............





Seems everybody else was interested in some other visitor  Grin





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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2019, 21:42:38 »

Further digging...

Scotland Farm's main building is Grade II listed and owned by the National Trust. It isn't though open to the public.

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101120230-scotland-farm-house-corfe-castle#.XJqcSxinxkw

Oh, and great pics, Phil!
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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2019, 22:27:59 »

Wow,that really is a triple whammy. No wonder you were in emergency Ward 10. You will need to take it very easy for some considerable time. Perhaps a few tail wags and licks from  BNM's canine companion would cheer you up!
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« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2019, 05:18:36 »

Get well soon and take it gentle.   

Love the pictures of trains as they used to be on that line; a 2-6-4 tank with a rake of green carriages seems so much more "Corfe" than the thing that has novelty value.  I remember a couple of happy afternoons in my childhood up on the hill opposite the castle, watch trains (thumpers) calling ... travelling from Waterloo to Swanage, arriving there in 4TC with a 33 for power on what must have been the very dying tail of the through service.
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« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2019, 05:41:15 »

Get well soon and take it gentle.   

Love the pictures of trains as they used to be on that line; a 2-6-4 tank with a rake of green carriages seems so much more "Corfe" than the thing that has novelty value.  I remember a couple of happy afternoons in my childhood up on the hill opposite the castle, watch trains (thumpers) calling ... travelling from Waterloo to Swanage, arriving there in 4TC with a 33 for power on what must have been the very dying tail of the through service.

Just for grahame................ taken on 2nd April 1970, a Thumper departs Corfe Castle for Wareham. I had just run down from the castle and was about to run back up again  Cool

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