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« Reply #120 on: December 15, 2019, 08:43:17 »
Quote from: Oxonhutch on December 15, 2019, 08:39:06
Loudwater on the closed Bourne End - High Wycombe branch. Clue was the ringed arm on the goods only loop.


Ah - of course  Grin Grin

Yes, it is - picture from many years before it closed.
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« Reply #121 on: December 15, 2019, 08:44:51 »
Grahame.  You haven't yet confirmed if  some of the earlier guesses were correct or not......
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« Reply #122 on: December 15, 2019, 08:53:10 »
Quote from: SandTEngineer on December 15, 2019, 08:44:51
Grahame.  You haven't yet confirmed if  some of the earlier guesses were correct or not......

Suspect I was very subtle in one or two cases, just "liking" the right answer.  A full list so far:

15th - Loudwater
14th - Waterloo International
13th - Ongar
12th - Trent
11th - Pilning
10th - Cardiff Bay
9th - Barnstaple
8th - Birmingham Snow Hill
7th - Longmoor Military Railway
6th - Also (I think) Longmoor Military Railway
5th - Tan-y-Grisiau
4th - Swindon Town
3rd - Yatton
2nd - Portland
1st - Calne
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« Reply #123 on: December 15, 2019, 15:53:15 »
Re Loudwater, for an interesting read I can recommend "The Crossing Keeper's Daughter, which is mostly set around Loudwater.

The Crossing Keeper's Daughter by C. Christopher (ISBN: 9781909757493)
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« Reply #124 on: December 16, 2019, 05:38:22 »
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« Reply #125 on: December 16, 2019, 08:06:51 »
At a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line, about to enter the single line ahead
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« Reply #126 on: December 16, 2019, 08:11:37 »
Quote from: Oxonhutch on December 16, 2019, 08:06:51
At a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton line, about to enter the single line ahead

A very brave guess ... the correct activity, but the wrong location;  I suspect there may not be enough clues in today's picture which is captured from a 60 year old TV▸ (Thames Valley, or TeleVision, depending on context) program and shows a scene that was re-enacted numerous times each day all across the UK▸ (United Kingdom).
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« Reply #127 on: December 16, 2019, 08:18:17 »
Three-holed rail chairs suggest the GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)


My error, GWR chairs were two-holed!
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« Reply #128 on: December 16, 2019, 08:55:11 »
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Three-holed rail chairs suggest the GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)

I had to check ... but my old pregrouping railway atlas suggests not. How much of a shuffle around there was after 1923, I don't know.
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« Reply #129 on: December 16, 2019, 10:04:45 »
The coal rails on the loco don't seem very GWR▸ (Great Western Railway).
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« Reply #130 on: December 16, 2019, 10:19:04 »
Might just have a guess at the S&D▸ (Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway) ?...
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« Reply #131 on: December 16, 2019, 10:42:54 »
Well its a Tablet being exchanged and not a Token so not GWR▸ (Great Western Railway)/WR unless on one of the 'Regional Transferred Lines'.
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« Reply #132 on: December 16, 2019, 12:08:14 »
Another guess in line with Western Pathfinder, S&D▸ (Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway) near Midford
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« Reply #133 on: December 16, 2019, 13:00:43 »
The "Midland to Western" idea of the Somerset and Dorset is warm in concept ... and I nearly indicated "hot" to the suggest of Selly Oak (though puzzled about there being a single line there) until I realised that was suggested for something else in another thread by Red Squirrel ... with whom the place of the picture has something in common name-wise.
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« Reply #134 on: December 16, 2019, 13:48:32 »
Draycott?
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