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« Reply #135 on: December 22, 2022, 08:29:14 » |
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22nd December 2022. I don't expect this one will go quite as quickly as some of the recent ones, but I'm prepared to be surprised.  |
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« Reply #136 on: December 22, 2022, 17:51:30 » |
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In the absence of anyone else having a go, and to "get the ball rolling" - it looks like West Midlands Trains manage the station from the colour of the seats - is this in the right general area?
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« Reply #137 on: December 22, 2022, 18:01:22 » |
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A bit of googling suggests it's somewhere on the London Overground.
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« Reply #138 on: December 22, 2022, 18:37:09 » |
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A bit of googling suggests it's somewhere on the London Overground.
Yes - I had to check back my maps, but I believe it is. |
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« Reply #139 on: December 22, 2022, 18:57:28 » |
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Having spent a little while this afternoon tracing the routes of various London Overground lines on Google Earth, I am pleased to say that I didn’t even have to look at the Euston to Watford Junction line, or the Chingford line before discovering that it’s Bethnal Green. A station I’m fairly certain I’ve only ever travelled through, and one that I guess didn’t make much of an impression!
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« Reply #140 on: December 23, 2022, 01:01:17 » |
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Having spent a little while this afternoon tracing the routes of various London Overground lines on Google Earth, I am pleased to say that I didn’t even have to look at the Euston to Watford Junction line, or the Chingford line before discovering that it’s Bethnal Green. A station I’m fairly certain I’ve only ever travelled through, and one that I guess didn’t make much of an impression!
Yes, it is ... and indeed I was travelling through too, hence the fuzzy photo! And for today ... where is this?  |
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« Reply #141 on: December 23, 2022, 06:54:17 » |
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Fox Park Viaduct, Easton, Bristol?
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
- Sir Terry Pratchett.
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« Reply #142 on: December 23, 2022, 08:54:33 » |
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Looks to be Silent Hobo's work. Has Montpelier been redone or extended perhaps?
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« Reply #143 on: December 23, 2022, 10:04:11 » |
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Montpelier Station, February 2018. A fox, but not *that* fox... Mark  |
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« Reply #144 on: December 23, 2022, 10:12:08 » |
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Yes ... is IS Montpelier. The artwork is spectacular there - and indeed on the whole Severn Beach line.
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« Reply #145 on: December 23, 2022, 12:51:01 » |
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Yes ... is IS Montpelier. The artwork is spectacular there - and indeed on the whole Severn Beach line.
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« Reply #146 on: December 24, 2022, 02:29:05 » |
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« Reply #147 on: December 24, 2022, 04:23:06 » |
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I'll stick my neck out and say Kemble, on the stub of the branch line to Cirencester Town that is now used by the maintenance engineers.
The station is well-preserved and the area is well-heeled. A people-watcher can gain gentle entertainment on the down train from Paddington to Cheltenham by guessing, on leaving Swindon, whether all the gentlemen in smart suits will get off at Kemble.
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« Reply #148 on: December 24, 2022, 08:49:47 » |
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I'll stick my neck out and say Kemble, on the stub of the branch line to Cirencester Town that is now used by the maintenance engineers.
The station is well-preserved and the area is well-heeled. A people-watcher can gain gentle entertainment on the down train from Paddington to Cheltenham by guessing, on leaving Swindon, whether all the gentlemen in smart suits will get off at Kemble.
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« Reply #149 on: December 24, 2022, 09:52:02 » |
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