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« on: November 01, 2013, 19:49:46 »
Guess the station quiz. Usual rules apply:

!!! 1 GUESS EACH FOR FIRST 24 HOURS !!!

If you are notified of an incorrect guess then you may have another go.

For picture D, I will accept the Closest 2 Stations or Closest Railway Junction. Bonus points if you name the area of the stretch of railway!

All the Full Res Pictures can be found here: https://plus.google.com/109072028153550894073/posts/6iPLcKXUn4E

A: Weston-Super-Mare - brooklea


B: Bedford Midland - bignosemac


C: Salisbury - rogerw


D: Yarnbrook Viaduct Approach (Between Trowbridge and Westbury / Heywood East Junction) - ReWind


E: Bedford Midland - Brucey


F: Sheffield - brooklea


G: Durham - pj9999


H: Westbury - Paul7755


I: Paddington - H&C Platform looking West on Eastbound Line - ellendune


J: York - Southern Stag


K: Taunton - SandTEngineer


L: Trowbridge - devon_metro


M: Melksham - grahame


N: Westbury - bobm
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« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2013, 19:58:56 »
M looks a bit fammmmiliar.   Not used to seeing trains there in the daylight - but is it Melksham?
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« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2013, 20:10:34 »
I believe that 'I' is the new Paddington H&C/Circle line (Eastbound) platform looking west.
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« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2013, 20:14:31 »
K = Taunton (sorry BNM)
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« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2013, 20:18:46 »
E = Bedford Midland, one of my former "local" stations.
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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2013, 20:23:40 »
B= I am going to guess is Luton Airport Parkway
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« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2013, 20:29:54 »
H. Westbury?
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« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2013, 20:31:49 »
L looks like Trowbridge to me
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« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2013, 20:45:11 »
N looks like Westbury for a second time.
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« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2013, 20:52:53 »
A. Weston-super-Mare
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« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2013, 22:41:39 »
I was thinking E looked familiar, but I realised that actually it just looks like a lot of the corridors at school! J looks perhaps like York to me.
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« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2013, 23:01:08 »
All the ones I know for sure have been guessed.

I'll take a punt at B. also being Bedford Midland.
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« Reply #12 on: November 01, 2013, 23:28:46 »
G - Durham
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« Reply #13 on: November 01, 2013, 23:52:05 »
Quote from: Brucey on November 01, 2013, 20:18:46
E = Bedford Midland, one of my former "local" stations.

Nooo. you beat me to it.. That would have been my guess also... Having lived there for many years.. And the only one I (think I) knew  Grin
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« Reply #14 on: November 02, 2013, 20:16:58 »
Is C Salisbury?  I would also agree with York for J
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