Near, mid, far

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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2009, 08:43:09 »

Those of you who 'suspect' Northern Ireland are right ... and those who say 'private feel' are closer than you thinks.

It's at Whitehead on the Belfast to Larne line. And the siding off to the right is to the presevation society's depot .. they run occasional specials from here on the mainline.

I had a look at the picture and got the odd feel too ...

Slightly different track scale / gauge
Rocks on platform ramp
Very busy foot crfossing over running lines

Next station up the line is "Ballycarry"

It has an hourly service through the day, with this peak hour train dropping off 4 people from Belfast. There's very little within half a mile, but an excellent service and a recently upgraded station. Ballycarry village is just over that half mile, and up a steep hill.

I can't but help draing comparisons and thinking that of a certain station in FGW^▸ land that serves not a handful of houses but a whole town, and yet has just 2 trains each way daily. I get the feeling from looking round over here (I'm writing from Northern Ireland) that there's a big outflow of tax money from the South West of England to these parts ...


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2009, 14:29:58 »

Hang on, that train in the background in no 3 looks to me like it could be the Washington DC^▸ metro...so could that station be New Carrollton, Maryland?


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2009, 16:14:47 »

Quote from: inspector_blakey on May 29, 2009, 14:29:58

Hang on, that train in the background in no 3 looks to me like it could be the Washington DC^▸ metro...so could that station be New Carrollton, Maryland?

Spot on! Star - Star - Star (3 gold stars). I somehow guess that you might get that one Wink


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2009, 17:49:18 »

Were it not for the DC^▸ metro train visible on the other side of the station I'd have been sunk...I've only been through that station 3 times!


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« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2009, 21:57:15 »

No!! I didn't recognise the DC^▸ metro!! There are only a few of these picture quizzes I can get.. And each time there is one I should know, I miss it completely! Shocked

I will try harder...


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2009, 08:24:24 »

Quote from: johoare on May 31, 2009, 21:57:15

No!! I didn't recognise the DC^▸ metro!! There are only a few of these picture quizzes I can get.. And each time there is one I should know, I miss it completely! Shocked

I will try harder...

Quote from: inspector_blakey on May 31, 2009, 17:49:18

Were it not for the DC metro train visible on the other side of the station I'd have been sunk...I've only been through that station 3 times!

These picture quizzes can be very hard ... especially on the far-away ones; I'll admit to choosing a picture with the metro in the background to give at least some of you folks here Cheesy

a sporting chance - but still not easy.

I do sometimes wonder whether picture quizzes are a good idea - after all, everyone starts off enthusiastic, and then end up saying"I can't get that" or "I came so close" - in fact it reads like a recipe for disastererous member relations. But then I think what a big success the national lottery show is, and there you have millions coming along hopeful at the start of the show, and virtually all of them going away with a dream shattered for another week.


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2009, 16:51:01 »

Quote from: relex109 on June 01, 2009, 14:26:17

now this is a difficult one!

i think this one will actually go very quickly

Aren't those two statements mutually exclusive?

Too hot to work this afternoon, so I'm going to post some suggestions ...

1. One end of the preserved railway that runs from Bitton in Bristol.
2. The end of the siding off the GW^▸ line as it approaches Salisbury / towards the GW station
3. Moorswater
4. Radstock
5. Mendip Vale

I can predict that I'll be at least 80% wrong!


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2009, 17:04:37 »

It could be just south of the platform at Rose Hill Station in Marple, possibly looking north where the line continues towards Manchester.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_en-GBGB313GB313&um=1&sa=1&q=3605+3411957318_0b0c6cba4b.jpg&btnG=Search+Images&aq=f&oq=
Google's great, isn't it?


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #23 on: June 01, 2009, 18:01:08 »

TerminalJunkie has just answered all the recent questions... yes it is a difficult one, but as already discussed this is where i am from originally so anyone who has read this previously would know that it is indeed rosehill Cheesy

a station which in theory should not have survived the beeching axe


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Re: Near, mid, far

« Reply #24 on: June 01, 2009, 18:03:24 »

hold on....TerminalJunkie you cheat

google 3605 3411957318_0b0c6cba4b.jpg lol


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