Advent Quiz - 2019

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[grahame]

Draycott?

I can see where you're coming from ... but the link only relates to our native squirrel and not his north American cousin

[stuving]

Redditch? Always was on a single-track line.

[grahame]

Redditch? Always was on a single-track line.

Yes, Redditch ... I'm pretty sure there would always have been a loop if not double to the north, but went single to the south.

[rogerw]

There was double track within the station area only. IIRC^▸ (if I recall/remember/read correctly) two boxes Redditch north & South

[stuving]

Redditch? Always was on a single-track line.

Yes, Redditch ... I'm pretty sure there would always have been a loop if not double to the north, but went single to the south.

Well, since there were two platforms I don't suppose either line through the station was properly a loop. There was more than one track north through the (railway and other) works section, though it's hard to say how many were running lines. Apart from that it was all single from Barnt green down to Evesham, then double south to Ashchurch - according to he very informative Redditch Model Railway Club site.

Where was the picture taken from? The only footbridge was right by the road bridge at the north end, with the platform ends almost underneath it. So presumably it was taken by standing on the tender (or perhaps the carriage/wagon behind) - but if so why?

[grahame]

[Western Pathfinder]

Interesting,the use of B&W makes the above Station look to be perhaps further back in time than is the case ?...

[JontyMort]

Interesting,the use of B&W makes the above Station look to be perhaps further back in time than is the case ?...

Yes, that Edwardian matrix display looks older in that shot. Can't place the station, though it looks vaguely familiar. Somewhere on the Old Worse and Worse?

[ellendune]

Wide platform in the foreground suggests 4 track with main line platforms fenced off.  Taplow?

[eightf48544]

Taplow maybe 5 years ago before the Ho-Ha wih the footbtidge and elrctrification

[stuving]

Interesting,the use of B&W makes the above Station look to be perhaps further back in time than is the case ?...

And that - plus the careful cropping - makes it less obvious that the picture was lifted off Wikipedia...but the truth will out!

[grahame]

Interesting,the use of B&W makes the above Station look to be perhaps further back in time than is the case ?...

And that - plus the careful cropping - makes it less obvious that the picture was lifted off Wikipedia...but the truth will out!

Indeed - I'll list various licenses, etc, in due course; this one is {{here}} - under {{this license}}

[grahame]

[martyjon]

Looks like a Piccadilly line station to me with my limited knowledge of the London Underground.

[Oxonhutch]

A station on the Glasgow Underground - the Clockwork Orange