Annoying / amusing use of completely irrelevant stock photos to illustrate press articles

[whole diary]

[SandTEngineer]

Err......I think that is probably Hull

Edit: Well at least First Group trains do go there

[grahame]

http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Trains-cancelled-Bristol-Temple-Meads-Weston/story-28736560-detail/story.html?

Bristol or Weston?

[SandTEngineer]

All I can tell you is that all four lines are bi-directional (I can tell that from the signalling equipment in the 4ft - sad I know) and that the outer two lines look like loops off the main line (but are most certainly not the loops at Yatton or the loop at Highbridge)   My best guess is Lincoln Central..........

Edit: Yes its Lincoln Central https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Lincoln_Central_railway_station_MMB_12_153308_153357.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Central_railway_station&h=2496&w=3820&tbnid=ypnEYKwKAfmiCM&tbnh=181&tbnw=278&usg=__BKwfHmbNRLwM_he-oECBz-OWiGo=&docid=GDRwRwvbnpf8PM

[trainer]

All I can tell you is that all four lines are bi-directional (I can tell that from the signalling equipment in the 4ft - sad I know) and that the outer two lines look like loops off the main line (but are most certainly not the loops at Yatton or the loop at Highbridge)   My best guess is Lincoln Central..........

Edit: Yes its Lincoln Central https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Lincoln_Central_railway_station_MMB_12_153308_153357.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Central_railway_station&h=2496&w=3820&tbnid=ypnEYKwKAfmiCM&tbnh=181&tbnw=278&usg=__BKwfHmbNRLwM_he-oECBz-OWiGo=&docid=GDRwRwvbnpf8PM

Not sad - impressive!   

[paul7575]

I clocked Lincoln masquerading as flooding near Botley just over two years ago, in post 196 of this thread. 

Getting popular... 

[InTheSidings]

http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/WARNING-Rail-chaos-planned-trains-run-Bristol/story-28738666-detail/story.html

[SandTEngineer]

This is getting repetitive - Hull again.......

[InTheSidings]

Thanks - I couldn't figure that one out - should've checked up thread! 

[Worcester_Passenger]

And from a circular put out by Worcester's MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context), Robin Walker, we learn the trick about how to speed up services to London...

[Surrey 455]

And from a circular put out by Worcester's MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context), Robin Walker, we learn the trick about how to speed up services to London...

I do wonder if that is a pic of Worcester Park station looking towards London. If there was a Google RailView then I could be more confident.

[stuving]

And from a circular put out by Worcester's MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context), Robin Walker, we learn the trick about how to speed up services to London...

I do wonder if that is a pic of Worcester Park station looking towards London.

It is, you know. Caught with his hand in the image library jar.

If there was a Google RailView then I could be more confident.

But there is - look at the station pictures in the plan on National Rail.

[Surrey 455]

And from a circular put out by Worcester's MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context), Robin Walker, we learn the trick about how to speed up services to London...

I do wonder if that is a pic of Worcester Park station looking towards London.

It is, you know. Caught with his hand in the image library jar.

If there was a Google RailView then I could be more confident.

But there is - look at the station pictures in the plan on National Rail.

Ah, I see now that it definitely is Worcester Park! As you say clicking on the image of a seat on Platform 1 on the following link and then clicking again on the resulting image brings up a larger image which is the same view that the MP had in his letter.
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_WCP/plan.html?rtnloc=WCP

[stuving]

Headline from the Croydon Advertiser:

London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan lobbying for TfL^» (Transport for London - about) monotony on commuter trains

By Croydon Advertiser  |  Posted: March 27, 2016
By Polly Albany-Ward polly.albany-ward@croydonadvertiser.co.uk

Was there a completely irrelevant picture? Well, there was one of Sadiq Khan, and it's hard to see how it could really match that headline.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Quality journalism. 

[RichardB]

And from a circular put out by Worcester's MP^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context), Robin Walker, we learn the trick about how to speed up services to London...

I do wonder if that is a pic of Worcester Park station looking towards London.

It is, you know. Caught with his hand in the image library jar.

If there was a Google RailView then I could be more confident.

But there is - look at the station pictures in the plan on National Rail.

Ah, I see now that it definitely is Worcester Park! As you say clicking on the image of a seat on Platform 1 on the following link and then clicking again on the resulting image brings up a larger image which is the same view that the MP had in his letter.
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_WCP/plan.html?rtnloc=WCP

This is brilliant.  The MP's poor researcher - Worcestershire Parkway - Worcester Park!