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

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[stuving]

Just had a look at Zwickau - looks big enough (what led you to it?) but I can't work out all the ironmongery in the background. Is it OHLE^▸ (Over-Head Line Equipment (electrification via catenary)), or a gasworks?

The infrastructure labels you can read have IDs starting "DZW", and that's the DS100 (DB^» (Deutsche Bahn - German State Railway - about) station/location) code for Zwickau. Mind you, I have no idea whether these codes are used that way.

[TonyN]

According to the Daily Mirror South West Railway have taken over the St Ives branch.

The St Ives to St Erth South West Trains route is one of the most beautiful in the country, trundling past a number of sandy beaches and rideable for the low price of just £3

https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ireland/uks-most-scenic-train-journey-31354898

And the photo seems to claim Long Rock Depot is on the Branch.

The magnificent train line (Image: Getty Images/Collection Mix: Subjects RF)

[grahame]

Not coping the image as it has a Getty copyright - but is it my imagination or have the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) chosen to use an image that isn't from the National Rail network when write about national rail driver strikes?  I can't place the location ...

[Fourbee]

I did a Google reverse image search (just checking this isn't a traditional quiz!), it appears to be Aspernstraße, Austria.

[stuving]

I did a Google reverse image search (just checking this isn't a traditional quiz!), it appears to be Aspernstraße, Austria.

I found it (from its reference number) on iStock, not branded as Getty Images. So I think it should have been credited by the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) as iStock/bojanstory or just bojanstory.

[stuving]

The BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) have replaced that picture with another iStock one called "Young handsome businessman with smart phone in subway". I'm not sure it is a subway, but is out of focus and hard to tell. The set of images (Credit: Halfpoint) including the same YHBWS includes one with an HST^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) with a dynamic lines livery, so they are not new but at least the geography is better.

[paul7575]

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) news item about upcoming Old Oak Common work uses a somewhat familiar image of the Glasgow station approaches, described as “Signalls Pad”.  I wonder what the letter G stands for… 

https://news.gwr.com/news/plan-ahead-warns-gwr-as-engineering-work-will-affect-christmas-trains-preparatory-works-to-start-this-weekend

Paul

[TonyK]

GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) news item about upcoming Old Oak Common work uses a somewhat familiar image of the Glasgow station approaches, described as “Signalls Pad”.  I wonder what the letter G stands for… 

https://news.gwr.com/news/plan-ahead-warns-gwr-as-engineering-work-will-affect-christmas-trains-preparatory-works-to-start-this-weekend

Paul

It would seem to be "not an accident", given the offered option of a download of Signalls Pad.

[Phantom]

As usual for this publication, another random picture used
https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/23956929.orr-investigates-poor-wales-west-train-performance/

[eightonedee]

Last Thursday was a good (or bad depending on whether you enjoy it) day for this thread. Reach (formerly Trinity, and before that Mirror Group) closed 13 local news websites, including Berkshire Live and those for Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Wiltshire.

The website for the Reading Chronicle (another Reach product that has been a good source of material) remains.

[Marlburian]

I visit(ed) the site most days -including this morning - and wondered why the news didn't look fresh!

[Surrey 455]

I visit(ed) the site most days -including this morning - and wondered why the news didn't look fresh!

The various MyLondon pages for the towns in the London Borough of Hillingdon don't get updated very often and many stories are for completely different non-local towns.

The same is true of the SurreyLive pages. Plus many of the new stories there are along the lines of "I visited XXX restauarant / bar / village and you won't believe..."

[Marlburian]

Or "I visited the new pizza restaurant in the main street and it was seriously good." The intrepid newshounds working on the Berkshire version had curious ideas (that is, lack of knowledge) about local geography, describing the M4 as being in Newbury and giving as "the most expensive streets in Reading" those in outlying villages. Once an incident on the M4 was describe as being "near Chieveley,Newbury, Reading". Theale's new fire station was also placed in Reading.

[Richard Fairhurst]

I'm delighted to see that electric trains are finally running between Oxford and London, according to this picture in the Oxford Mail. Slightly surprised that they're Merseyrail third-rail units, but maybe this is a way of saving money on the electrification?



https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23976658.gwr-rail-updates-services-oxford-london/

[RichardB]

Bit of a classic in today's West Briton (the local paper for Truro, Falmouth, Redruth etc)