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« on: June 03, 2019, 22:16:27 »
For those of you who have been following my picture trail around the North East - posting tonight in "Chat" rather than "Lighter Side" as there is no quiz really ... and because I am learning some very serious lessons. What I do with what I learn, goodness knows.

It's been a very tiring few days, finding places such as this with nothing particularly memorable (  Grin ) to stop for tea and to check in online.



I think that was straight tea in the teapot, but perhaps not because of a strange vision seen later ... what was it you folks said "bye" to on Saturday?



Here's a picture especially for one of our members ... which looks remarkably similar to something I saw on a Wiltshire website about trains a couple of months back:



And I have experienced both overcrowding and undecrowding ... at the start and the end of the same service.
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« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2019, 23:38:25 »
Well despite not being a quiz, the first picture must be Knaresborough, which is as lovely as it looks there (and a bit busier than when I stayed there a couple of years ago).
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« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2019, 07:37:55 »
Quote from: froome on June 03, 2019, 23:38:25
Well despite not being a quiz

It can't be a quiz there are no pictures of Taunton or Melksham!
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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2019, 11:19:56 »
I thought "top right quadrant" was going to be John O'Groats. Anyway, I'm slightly jealous of people with so many wires. Shame they aren't using them!
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« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2019, 11:23:27 »
Quote from: froome on June 03, 2019, 23:38:25
Well despite not being a quiz, the first picture must be Knaresborough, which is as lovely as it looks there (and a bit busier than when I stayed there a couple of years ago).

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Quote from: froome on June 03, 2019, 23:38:25
Well despite not being a quiz

It can't be a quiz there are no pictures of Taunton or Melksham!

I should probably have told you ... Knaresborough, 2 x Leeds, and the 17:58 Leeds to Goole twice ... on leaving Leeds and on the approach to Goole.   I'm learning a lot this week ... not exactly sure about what I'll do with the knowledge / education I'm getting, but seeing places that have just been names, chatting with people along the way and hearing what they think of their own line and how things work up here feels so useful, even if it turns out to be just a feeling.

Quote from: Bmblbzzz on June 04, 2019, 11:19:56
I thought "top right quadrant" was going to be John O'Groats. Anyway, I'm slightly jealous of people with so many wires. Shame they aren't using them!

Nah, sorry ... covered the Far North line last year.  Yorkshire, Teeside and Tyneside have a lot more in common with parts of the GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) land than those two long and thin tentacles north from Inverness, though I'll admit that staying in Wick felt far more like a holiday than staying in Darlington!
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