7th December 2020 - advent quiz - where is this?

[whole diary]

[Phantom]

8. Looks like where the West Coast Railway trains are repaired at the Southall Railway Centre

[stuving]

No 5 is outside the Bryant & May factory between Liverpool Street and Stratford (specifically Bow), maybe?

Factory? That's  Lancashire County Council County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire PR1 8XJ England. Or thereabouts.

[eightonedee]

I assume we have to do better than "the top deck of a Stagecoach double decker" for 8!

I'll guess - Cheltenham?

[JontyMort]

Is 10 Bath?

[patch38]

And is 4 Bath Christmas Market?

[grahame]

Correct so far:

1. Thingley Junction - Bradshaw
2. Swindon - Ellendune
3. Glasgow Central - Zoe
5. Preston - Stuving
6. Melksham - Bobm
9. Paddington - TonyN
11. Glasgow Central - Bignosemac
12. Euston - Phil Wakely

Neither 4 nor 10 are Bath (10 not Chelenham either, I'm afraid)
8 is not Southall

There's a connection between all these pictures, and it's especially right to have this quiz today.  If you get the connection, the remaining locations may become clearer. You will note 2 x Glasgow Central - do not rule out other duplicates.

[grahame]

There's a connection between all these pictures, and it's especially right to have this quiz today.  If you get the connection, the remaining locations may become clearer.

Giving you the connection ... all picture I took on this date last year

[froome]

There's a connection between all these pictures, and it's especially right to have this quiz today.  If you get the connection, the remaining locations may become clearer.

Giving you the connection ... all picture I took on this date last year

You must have traveled a long way that day!

I googled the scaffolders advertising in no 10 and they are based in Mitcham in south London, and say they work within the M25, so presumably that must be in London, though it doesn't really fit any other clue in the picture or what your journey must have been, as it was obviously middle of day.

[stuving]

You must have traveled a long way that day!

I googled the scaffolders advertising in no 10 and they are based in Mitcham in south London, and say they work within the M25, so presumably that must be in London, though it doesn't really fit any other clue in the picture or what your journey must have been, as it was obviously middle of day.

Yes, a red herring wasn't it? But I think the journey is obvious enough, and the bus route almost almost as much - though I can't place the junction; was it perhaps diverted off its normal route?

Oh and No. 7 is pretty easy too, isn't it?

[grahame]

There's a connection between all these pictures, and it's especially right to have this quiz today.  If you get the connection, the remaining locations may become clearer.

Giving you the connection ... all picture I took on this date last year

You must have traveled a long way that day!

I googled the scaffolders advertising in no 10 and they are based in Mitcham in south London, and say they work within the M25, so presumably that must be in London, though it doesn't really fit any other clue in the picture or what your journey must have been, as it was obviously middle of day.

I had been working in the 'burbs of Glasgow that week ... and the company I was visiting had their Christmas do in the City on the Friday evening, invited me along and I joined them.  I may write more in "and also" in a few minutes. Overnight in my hotel tight by Central Station, and home on the Saturday on Virgin Train's last day via London.  Early start, early afternoon as Swindon where (of course) I had the longest wait of the day for the Melksham service and straight into the Christmas fayre there even before getting home.

Pictures, in order taken

11. Glasgow Central - Bignosemac
3. Glasgow Central - Zoe
5. Preston - Stuving
8. Crewe
9. Paddington - TonyN
10. Euston Road. ... on the 205 from Euston to Paddington
12. Euston - Phil Wakely
2. Swindon - Ellendune
4. Swindon
1. Thingley Junction - Bradshaw
6. Melksham - Bobm
7. Melksham




Edit to add ...

Yes, a red herring wasn't it? But I think the journey is obvious enough, and the bus route almost almost as much - though I can't place the junction; was it perhaps diverted off its normal route?

Oh and No. 7 is pretty easy too, isn't it?

Well - bus route identified ... and I don't recall it headed off route.  The 205 no longer calls at Marylebone station but stays on Euston Road ... reseaching further ...

[grahame]

Well - bus route identified ... and I don't recall it headed off route.  The 205 no longer calls at Marylebone station but stays on Euston Road ... reseaching further ...

Great Portland Street - Trees in Park Square Gardens (home of Regents Park Station) visible ahead right through the gap between the buildings.

[stuving]

Well - bus route identified ... and I don't recall it headed off route.  The 205 no longer calls at Marylebone station but stays on Euston Road ... reseaching further ...

Great Portland Street - Trees in Park Square Gardens (home of Regents Park Station) visible ahead right through the gap between the buildings.

Careless! I read the street name off the sign as Great Portland Street, and looked there first but hadn't twigged the building was seen from the back so was looking in the wrong place. And once you've rejected something ...