Changing Images

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[grahame]

I've changed the images on the top right corner of the page ... there are 10 different illustrations that are used randomly.  Most but not all are firmly in FGW^▸ (First Great Western) territory. How many places can you identify, and can you spot the odd one(s) out?

[devon_metro]

One is of an HST^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) at Swindon

[grahame]

One is of an HST^▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) at Swindon

This one?



My note / thought was that it was Kemble, but I'm probably wrong; certainly taken when I used a 125 to make the journey between these two stations.

To make it a bit easier to work out where these pictures are, here are three more you'll see (and they won't change within this thread!)

[Steve44]

Bottom one is paddington, is it not? and the inside of a carriage is a 143, yes? (couldn't tell you where or which, however :p)

[grahame]

Bottom one is paddington, is it not? and the inside of a carriage is a 143, yes? (couldn't tell you where or which, however :p)

Right on both of those two, Steve.  (The 143 picture was on the 09:02 Saturdays only from Westbury to Swindon, but there's no way you could tell that from the picture and on this occasion it was a little busier than normal!)

The middle picture of the three above isn't going to be easy ... and let me pull up a couple more

[Btline]

Is the top one (on the second set) the old Marizon station?

Is the middle one (on the first set) B'ham New Street?

[Chris from Nailsea]

If you mean Marazion, in Cornwall, Btline, I don't think so: see http://www.urban75.org/railway/marazion.html 

[grahame]

Is the top one (on the second set) the old Marizon station?

Is the middle one (on the first set) B'ham New Street?

You've chosen the two tough ones there, Btline ... although you have the right coast (i.e. the South Coast) for the first one.  I hate to admit this, though, ... the wrong continent for the second one!

[Btline]

You've chosen the two tough ones there, Btline ... although you have the right coast (i.e. the South Coast) for the first one.  I hate to admit this, though, ... the wrong continent for the second one!

[Chris from Nailsea]

Don't worry, Btline - while I can work out what it's not, I also haven't a clue what it is!

On my past form, even when I've practically helped grahame set up the shot, I still can't identify the station, when he posts a picture on the forum! See http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=3663.msg28403#msg28403 

[Chris from Nailsea]

However: I'm sure the picture with the yellow screens top left, and a row of people sitting in the foreground watching them, is also PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains) - the last time I bumped into Ollie at PAD, we chatted there, just outside the main FGW^▸ (First Great Western) ticket office! 

[grahame]

Yes - this:



is Paddington.

And that leaves six still to be identified







I'm going to give you the one that's a continent away - It's New York's Penn Central station, showing that the gathering of passengers below the departure screen isn't purely a Paddington phenomena.  So the other two are the external shot of the 143 (where was that?), and the crumbling remains of xxxx station, which could be an FGW^▸ (First Great Western) terminus if the line was reinstated to there, but would more likely be another operator. It's even more likely that the trackbed will be turned into a road busway.

With these questions, you tend to know them, or you don't.  You'll see me very quiet on may of the threads of other people's pictures as I don't know them either.

[lympstone_commuter]

Gosport? (the one in ruins)

[grahame]

Gosport? (the one in ruins)

Yes - that's right.

And old and new comparison at:
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1732_Old-pictures-and-comparisons.html

More pictures at:
http://www.wellho.net/share/gosportstation.html

[kazbear]

Paddington Plt 1