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Author Topic: Six times upon a time, six long long times ago, there was a train. But where?  (Read 3773 times)
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« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2019, 08:03:02 »

2. Paddington, Platform 1 - pre-Great War
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« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2019, 08:03:57 »

2. The only place I can think of with that configuration of windows/arches is Bristol Temple Meads. Thought it was curvier than that though...

I thought it looked like Paddington Platform 1 - Oxenhutch just beat me to it while I was posting
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« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2019, 08:29:06 »

2. Paddington, Platform 1 - pre-Great War

I thought it looked like Paddington Platform 1 - Oxenhutch just beat me to it while I was posting

Yes, it is Paddington ... not sure personally if it's standing in platform 1 or 3, with the Paddington "look" a couple of tracks behind it.  Quality too poor to be sure on the perspective.  Picture from 1910.
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« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2019, 08:36:05 »

1. Pilning?
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« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2019, 08:42:33 »

1. Pilning?

Nope.   Can't think of any record or photos (and goodness I have quite a few photos of Pilning!) of it flooding there.
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« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2019, 10:50:38 »

1. Creech St.Michael
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« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2019, 12:49:38 »

1. Creech St.Michael

Sorry - 'tain't . Guess of "Pilning" was geograhically much closer.

For the other remaining question ... come on folks ... this is a traditional quiz so there has to be a picture of ... Grin
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« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2019, 13:27:11 »

1. Creech St.Michael

Sorry - 'tain't . Guess of "Pilning" was geograhically much closer.

For the other remaining question ... come on folks ... this is a traditional quiz so there has to be a picture of ... Grin

The T word?
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« Reply #23 on: April 09, 2019, 18:28:11 »

Might be Patchway cutting.
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« Reply #24 on: April 09, 2019, 18:44:08 »

Might be Patchway cutting.

but isn't  Grin
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« Reply #25 on: April 09, 2019, 21:21:32 »

Another (wild?) guess for no 5  - is this the "Taunton" one?
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« Reply #26 on: April 09, 2019, 21:41:47 »

Another (wild?) guess for no 5  - is this the "Taunton" one?

Indeed ....
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« Reply #27 on: April 09, 2019, 22:04:30 »

This was Taunton in 1895 then, when the platforms were lengthened and bay platforms were provided. Hence the narrow gauge bulk track, the station had been mixed gauge from the 1870s to 1892.
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« Reply #28 on: April 10, 2019, 00:20:30 »

Oh, you're all so funny.  Roll Eyes

When I returned home from work and caught up here on the Coffee Shop forum, I knew instantly that it was Taunton in 1895.

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William Huskisson MP (Member of Parliament) 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.

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« Reply #29 on: April 10, 2019, 11:09:05 »


No. 1 is described as "works train in the flooded Sodbury cutting in November 1899" . See http://www.passenger.chat/10743 for some more recent flooding and alleviation works.
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