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« on: February 06, 2016, 23:44:26 »
Probably shouldn't put these rather sad pictures in "lighter side".   However .. can you tell me where?
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« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2016, 10:18:18 »
Always one to go for the low-hanging fruit: Top right is Warmley.
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« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2016, 11:31:51 »
Top left not sure which tram system but there seem to be some quite large potholes in the road.
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« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2016, 11:33:26 »
Quote from: Red Squirrel on February 07, 2016, 10:18:18
Always one to go for the low-hanging fruit: Top right is Warmley.

Only "low hanging" if you know it.   Yes, it is!

Quote from: eightf48544 on February 07, 2016, 11:31:51
Top left not sure which tram system but there seem to be some quite large potholes in the road.

Nope - no tramway (which would have been an interesting idea there) but rather a level crossing.
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« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2016, 12:11:23 »
Quote from: grahame on February 07, 2016, 11:33:26

Only "low hanging" if you know it.   Yes, it is!


Fair comment. I've passed through there, sober, heading towards Bath many a time; less often sober in the reverse direction.

As to the top left: I presume I'm not allowed another go until the 24 hours is up, but something tells me FT, N! might know where it is... Belay that; it's clearly not where I thought...
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« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2016, 22:58:36 »
Wild guess for the large picture: on the Strawberry Line?
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« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2016, 01:17:49 »
Hmm. Whereabouts, exactly? The Shute Shelve tunnel entrance and the road overbridge near Cheddar are much wider spans than that - and I can't think of any other possible views, offhand?  Undecided
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« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2016, 06:59:45 »
Not the Strawberry Line, I'm afraid ... but for that bigger picture I did walk from the station where an FGW▸ (First Great Western) train (as it was) had dropped me off.

The bottom left and bottom right pictures are very much "in territory"; the top left one is somewhat out of area, but a place covered on the forum. The smaller pictures are not recent; the big 'un is last summer.
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« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2016, 09:21:46 »
Bottom right - somewhere along the disused Radstock to Frome line?
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« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2016, 09:25:10 »
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Bottom right - somewhere along the disused Radstock to Frome line?

Correct - Kilmerstock, where (if legend is to be believed) Jack and Jill went up the hill
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« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2016, 19:16:39 »
Is that a Portmanteau, Grahame? Of Kilmersdon and Radstock perhaps?  Smiley
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« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2016, 19:22:42 »
Quote from: InTheSidings on February 17, 2016, 19:16:39
Is that a Portmanteau, Grahame? Of Kilmersdon and Radstock perhaps?  Smiley

Yes, though an unintentional one!
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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2016, 20:47:35 »
Prompted more than a bit with the answer to bottom RH picture, I think I spy a slag-heap in the background of the bottom LH picture. If so, possibly not far away from the same location somewhere in the Somerset coalfield, but beyond that guess, no idea!
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« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2016, 21:14:46 »
Is the big picture on the Tarka▸ (Branch line from Barnstaple to Exeter) Trail from Barnstaple [Junction] station?
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« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2016, 21:34:06 »
Quote from: InTheSidings on February 17, 2016, 20:47:35
Prompted more than a bit with the answer to bottom RH picture, I think I spy a slag-heap in the background of the bottom LH picture. If so, possibly not far away from the same location somewhere in the Somerset coalfield, but beyond that guess, no idea!

Yes - that's actually on the old Radstock site ... taken on a different visit to the area to the Kilmersdon trip.

Leaves top left to get (remember, not GW» (Great Western - used as an abbreviation for the area / lines under the Great Western franchise, as opposed to FGW which includes "First", the company operating them too. For tickets - about) territory) and the main picture which - sorry - isn't Tarka▸ (Branch line from Barnstaple to Exeter) trail. Very surprised you've not got that one, PhilWakely, as I think I've been in your company within a mile or so of the spot!
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