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« on: August 17, 2008, 16:08:49 »

Can you place these six?

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No partial guesses please ... please tell me where you thing all six are, and I'll tell you how many you have right!
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2008, 16:55:41 »

1. Westbury
2. Dartmoor Railway?!
3. Chippenham
4. Cardiff?!
5. Fareham
6. Reading DMUD

Edit: re 5... could have made an effort to photoshop out the third rail in the bay road Wink
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2008, 17:03:27 »

2. Meldon Quarry
4. Westbury
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2008, 17:31:33 »

1. Westbury
2. Dartmoor Railway?!
3. Chippenham
4. Cardiff?!
5. Fareham
6. Reading DMUD

Edit: re 5... could have made an effort to photoshop out the third rail in the bay road Wink

3 out of 6 right.  All pictures are of genuine places, and not computer art based on a place. If I had wanted it to be harder, I could have simply cropped it to show just the top right quarter.
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2008, 17:33:27 »

Top right would have been just as easy - the bridge is quite easy to spot for Fareham. Wink
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« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2008, 17:33:33 »

1. deffo isn't WSB» (Westbury - next trains) which doesn't have destination boards of that kind. Salisbury perhaps?
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« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2008, 17:35:46 »

Top right would have been just as easy - the bridge is quite easy to spot for Fareham. Wink

Maybe for you  Wink  ... and you're in effect saying that there would have been no point in hiding the third rail.   Thank you.  Grin
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« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2008, 17:37:19 »

1. deffo isn't WSB» (Westbury - next trains) which doesn't have destination boards of that kind. Salisbury perhaps?

Come up with a listing of all 6 and I'll give you a score.
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« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2008, 17:38:52 »

1. Salisbury
2. Meldon Quarry
3. Chippenham
4. Westbury
5. Fareham
6. Reading DMUD
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« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2008, 17:48:07 »

So two of those are thanks to me. Looking again, I don't think 2 is Meldon
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2008, 17:48:59 »

1. Salisbury
2. Meldon Quarry
3. Chippenham
4. Westbury
5. Fareham
6. Reading DMUD

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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2008, 17:49:38 »

So two of those are thanks to me. Looking again, I don't think 2 is Meldon

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« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2008, 17:53:30 »

I don't have a clue so I borrow. Smiley

Well, I do have a rough idea but I need to check.
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« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2008, 17:54:42 »

Is 2 Norchard? (he says after browsing graham's photo index)
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« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2008, 18:25:28 »

6 Upper Triangle Sidings Reading
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