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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2021, 10:20:48 » |
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4. By the B4031 bridge over the Oxford Canal, near to Aynho Junction. And also near the Great Western pub.
Would you drink at a pub displaying a caution signal?  It’s possibly a reminder the pub sign train is on the wrong track… |
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« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2021, 10:23:14 » |
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Disclaimer: Nether Boris Johnson or any member of Downing street staff are involved in running this quiz.  I'm hearing they just sent in Question 13:  It this the Grobs, on their epic journey in which they discovered Devon? |
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2021, 10:56:23 » |
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Taking the easiest one (when you don’t know!), 2. Great Malvern  r I should have twigged on that one as I've been sat at the same table as the chap in the photo. |
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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2021, 11:31:53 » |
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7. Penrith.
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2021, 11:57:13 » |
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5. Marsh Mills (2?) level crossing, Coypool Road Correct 9: Strand Road, Preston and the line leading into the docks and Ribble Steam Railway
Correct 12, former Aynho station on the Oxford/Banbury line.
Correct 4. By the B4031 bridge over the Oxford Canal, near to Aynho Junction. And also near the Great Western pub. Correct 7. Penrith. Correct |
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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2021, 12:56:54 » |
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1. Cornwall mainline, betweeen Redruth and Camborne
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2021, 13:44:01 » |
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3. Dawlish
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2021, 14:03:34 » |
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10 (possibly) Cholsey & Wallingford from the Church Road bridge outside Cholsey (although I would have expected a large pylon or two in the background)
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2021, 15:07:26 » |
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Cornwall mainline, betweeen Redruth and Camborne Sorry no Dawlish Correct Cholsey & Wallingford from the Church Road bridge outside Cholsey Correct |
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2021, 15:49:45 » |
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10 (possibly) Cholsey & Wallingford from the Church Road bridge outside Cholsey (although I would have expected a large pylon or two in the background)
There's certainly a pylon in that view, so where did it go? Partly it's the reduced resolution to give 800 px across, but that's not all. I took a Google earth picture that matches and clearly shows the pylon against the sky, and reduced the resolution to match, at it's still visible (if fuzzy). And so is the OLE▸ on the "big" railway, though I guess TonyN's picture could predate that. So I imagine the vanishing act must be down to the colour and contrast processing, in some way, plus a bit of JPEG compression trickery. |
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« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2021, 16:40:01 » |
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In the original picture I can just spot the pylon but it is amongst a tree.
The picture was taken in April when I was still using my old Sony E5 phone so about 5 years out of date.
See attached. I have enlarged the original image and circled the top of the pylon and a gantry on the railway. I am not sure if the gantry is OLE▸ or a signal gantry.
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« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2021, 21:03:13 » |
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The gantry above is at the end of the OLE▸ wire run, hence the angled stays to hold it vertical. I think the wire run tensioners are even visible on Google satellite view.
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« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2021, 21:37:30 » |
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Time for some clues to the remaining pictures
1.Largest village in England?
6.They could have been designing Trains or Tractors.
8.it's not really a pier.
11.A swift one could have been consumed here by clerics changing on their way to an annual conference.
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« Reply #28 on: December 13, 2021, 22:02:11 » |
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1. View from A4260 bridge at Kidlington, looking south towards Oxford.
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« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2021, 22:03:12 » |
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8. Wigan North Western ?
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