Identitrax quiz

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[grahame]

Euston station DC^▸ (Direct Current) lines for Watford service?

Nope!   Sorry

[Reginald25]

Another guess Chester?

[grahame]

Another guess Chester?

I'm sorry, no, it isn't.

A further hint or two - the picture is an old one - changed there somewhat now. I am reminded of an edition of "Pointless" where contestants were asked to name railway stations in the top 30 for passenger numbers; there were two or three of them that were pointless - not of the 100 members of Jo Public had named them, and they had similar characteristics to the location in this picture.

[brooklea]

Is it Southport?

[paul7575]

South of Blackfriars Bridge looking south? 

[grahame]

It's neither Southport nor Blackfriars, I'm afraid - though I can see similarities in both cases.

I am looking for further clues which don't totally name the place (and not doing well!) .  I think I said "a set of tracks I have travelled through MANY times", didn't I?   Granted that would apply to Blackfriars and to a much lesser extent to Southport. Now where else could there be??

[rogerw]

Somewhere in the Orpington area?

[Witham Bobby]

3.  Bradford North Junction.

It's a Bradford Junction but I get confused as to which is which.   I think the one in the picture is plain Ole Bradford Junction, with Bradford West Junction to the North West of it, though still to the east of Bradford-on-Avon and Bradford North Junction to the North East, though still a smidgin to the South of Bradford-on-Avon and well to its East.

When the picture was taken, wasn't it Bradford South Junction?

Yes, it's Bradford South junction.  Smoke obscures Bradford Junction SB^▸ (Signal Box), which, since 1933, had controlled the junctions at all three corners of the triangle.  At the time of the picture, it worked absolute block to Hawkeridge Junction (at Westbury), no-signalman token to Thingley Junction, and was the fringe box to Bristol panel, working track circuit block to Bathampton Junction.

So complicated that when Westbury Panel became a thing, Bradford Junction box survived for some years, because the interfacing of the signalling on the three routes was tricky to solve.  An outpost of mechanical signalling amidst the colour-lights.

[Bob_Blakey]

5. Neither the platform nor the signalling posts look like anything I have ever seen on the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) network so I reckon it could be overseas, either Europe or North America. On that basis I will say Washington Union Station (because it's the only one I can find on Google Maps that looks anything like the posted image!).

[PrestburyRoad]

5. Neither the platform nor the signalling posts look like anything I have ever seen on the UK^▸ (United Kingdom) network so I reckon it could be overseas, either Europe or North America. On that basis I will say Washington Union Station (because it's the only one I can find on Google Maps that looks anything like the posted image!).

I'll still back somewhere in the UK.  On the subject of platforms, Nunhead and Blackfriars both had wooden platforms in the 1960s; perhaps to save weight - Nunhead was on a high and narrow embankment, and Blackfriars extended southward onto the river bridge.

[grahame]

It IS the UK^▸ (United Kingdom).   I remember the platforms at Blackfriars - looking through the narrow gaps between the planks and seeing. the waters of the Thames far below.  And, yes, that was while I lived in the Orpington area.

[bradbrka]

Clapham Junction?

[PrestburyRoad]

It's neither Southport nor Blackfriars, I'm afraid - though I can see similarities in both cases.

I am looking for further clues which don't totally name the place (and not doing well!) .  I think I said "a set of tracks I have travelled through MANY times", didn't I?   Granted that would apply to Blackfriars and to a much lesser extent to Southport. Now where else could there be??

Maybe there's hint in a later post mentioning Orpington, so I guess London Bridge.

[paul7575]

Maybe there's hint in a later post mentioning Orpington, so I guess London Bridge.

You must have skimmed past posts #22/23…   

[PrestburyRoad]

Maybe there's hint in a later post mentioning Orpington, so I guess London Bridge.

You must have skimmed past posts #22/23…   

Oops yes, sorry, my boo-boo.  My weak excuse is that those posts were in another world - yesterday and on a different page.  Now if only I could remember what I went upstairs for ...