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« on: September 03, 2024, 05:38:37 »
My farcebook friends will have a general idea of my whereabouts in the past week, so please hang fire until others have had an opportunity - although, knowing fellow forumites, the window of opportunity will probably be extremely small!
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« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2024, 08:20:12 »
Bude Harbour Tranway?
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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2024, 09:00:26 »
Quote from: bradshaw on September 03, 2024, 08:20:12
Bude Harbour Tranway?
Sadly, not
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2024, 09:22:57 »
Fairbourne?
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« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2024, 10:04:27 »
Quote from: brooklea on September 03, 2024, 09:22:57
Fairbourne?

I didn't think it would take long!  The abandoned loop at the Barmouth Ferry end


Trains crossing at the aptly named 'Loop Halt'


.... and, anything Finn can do, so can our little Westie. 'Jessie'  Cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2024, 10:30:50 »
The Mawddach Estuary has a sort of magic for me ... just sayin'. 
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« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2024, 10:46:08 »
I know that 'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' and not everyone will appreciate it, but I love this 'snapshot' of the bridge taken on a 'phone from a moving car by my daughter on the spur of the moment as we approached Barmouth in the early evening.

I hadn't spotted the 'coxed 4' in the foreground until I saw the enlarged version on my laptop.
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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2024, 15:44:24 »
Quote from: PhilWakely on September 03, 2024, 10:04:27
.... and, anything Finn can do, so can our little Westie. 'Jessie'  Cheesy


Did Jessie need her own ticket on the Fairborne? Tongue
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« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2024, 18:01:52 »
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Did Jessie need her own ticket on the Fairborne? Tongue


We had to pay for Jessie, but she did not get her own ticket - just a bog standard till receipt detailing '3 Adults and a dog'
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« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2024, 19:42:19 »
Quote from: PhilWakely on September 03, 2024, 18:01:52
We had to pay for Jessie, but she did not get her own ticket - just a bog standard till receipt detailing '3 Adults and a dog'

Surely, just to offer some respect to one more of their valued fare-paying passengers, it should be '3 Adults and their dog'.  Shocked
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2024, 20:51:25 »
Seems a ruff deal all round. 

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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2024, 21:10:39 »
No need to get hot under the collar about it.  Wink
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2024, 21:25:39 »
Quote from: PhilWakely on September 03, 2024, 10:46:08
I know that 'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' and not everyone will appreciate it, but I love this 'snapshot' of the bridge taken on a 'phone from a moving car by my daughter on the spur of the moment as we approached Barmouth in the early evening.

I hadn't spotted the 'coxed 4' in the foreground until I saw the enlarged version on my laptop.




Meanwhile, puns aside: that is a brilliant image, PhilWakely - my congratulations to your daughter!

The central position of that 'coxed 4' boat was perfect - all in near silhouette.  Smiley
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"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2024, 22:27:16 »
I suspect the boat is a celtic longboat - if that's any different to a gig.
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« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2024, 09:14:31 »
I suspect you're right. Here's a stock photo from down the coast at Aberaeron.

Sea and estuary rowing using a variety of types of boats is a thing, including for recreational use thankfully. It's very sociable, especially when its not a requirement for survival, e.g. the need for Shetlanders to row sixty or so miles into the teeth of the weather in pursuit of the herring, in a heavy oar-propelled boat I think known as a sixareen.

And then of course the competitions, which possibly generate various versions of the joke: 'What's the difference between an egg and a cornish gig?'...

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https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-celtic-longboat-leaving-the-harbour-at-aberaeron-ceredigion-wales-13021144.html
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