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Post by Colin D on Jun 29, 2019 0:29:13 GMT
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Post by DWS on Jun 29, 2019 6:48:49 GMT
Between Gidea Park and Harold Wood
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Post by Colin D on Jun 30, 2019 0:34:54 GMT
Answer: Main photo: Between Gidea Park and Harold Wood - view east from Upper Brentwood Road [Chris M] Now we need the background.
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Post by westville13 on Jun 30, 2019 20:43:48 GMT
Is the background Northala Fields in Northolt by the M40?
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Post by Chris M on Jun 30, 2019 21:58:49 GMT
The background is not near the M40. Does this version help? (click for a larger version)
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Post by alpinejohn on Jul 1, 2019 9:35:57 GMT
Is the background Northala Fields in Northolt by the M40? That's what I thought too but it is alongside the A40 Western Avenue near Northolt (not the M40).
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Post by Chris M on Jul 1, 2019 12:13:21 GMT
Mope, It's nowhere near any road starting with 4!
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Post by westville13 on Jul 2, 2019 14:41:17 GMT
Try again. It looks like a landscaped waste tip Chatterley Whitfield colliery?
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 2, 2019 16:16:49 GMT
Google Maps tells me that it's a 200mile drive from that colliery to this location.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 2, 2019 17:04:08 GMT
So Central/Southern Scotland, Devon, or just possibly the Kent Coast. All of them well away from any road beginning with a "4".
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Post by Chris M on Jul 2, 2019 18:04:30 GMT
One of those is considerably closer than the others.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 2, 2019 18:23:59 GMT
Google Maps tells me that it's a 200mile drive from that colliery to this location. Note that I said drive and not a direct line.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 3, 2019 7:24:36 GMT
Note that I said drive and not a direct line. Which is why I said Devon rather than Plymouth (which is about 200 miles as the crow flies) and discounted places within that radius on the other side of the Irish Sea. Still not found it though.
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Post by brigham on Jul 3, 2019 7:44:46 GMT
Are there landscaped pit-heaps in Devon?
Looks more like what's left of Murton Colliery to me, but lost colliery sites are starting to look like shopping centres; all the same wherever you go.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 3, 2019 9:07:23 GMT
Is it part of the Northumberlandia installation at Cramlington? That's about 200 miles by road (not in Scotland, but north of Hadrians Wall!)
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Post by Chris M on Jul 3, 2019 9:35:42 GMT
It's not in Devon, north of Hadrian's Wall or a former colliery site.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 3, 2019 9:57:23 GMT
Note that I said drive and not a direct line. Which is why I said Devon rather than Plymouth (which is about 200 miles as the crow flies) and discounted places within that radius on the other side of the Irish Sea. Still not found it though. Fair enough. You seem to have ruled out Greater London though (hint).
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 3, 2019 11:43:41 GMT
Which is why I said Devon rather than Plymouth (which is about 200 miles as the crow flies) and discounted places within that radius on the other side of the Irish Sea. Still not found it though. Fair enough. You seem to have ruled out Greater London though (hint). Found it! Gallions Hill in Thamesmead - which just shows how wriggly our roads are. Less than 150 miles as the crow flies.
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 3, 2019 12:33:44 GMT
Fair enough. You seem to have ruled out Greater London though (hint). Found it! Gallions Hill in Thamesmead - which just shows how wriggly our roads are. Less than 150 miles as the crow flies. Background: Gallions Hill, Thamesmead [Chris M] (click for a larger version) Google maps give the fastest (and shortest) route between the suggested colliery and the hill to be A50, M1, M25 then into London as 198miles.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 3, 2019 13:18:59 GMT
About one mile from a road beginning with "4" - the A406 at the Beckton Alps (A13) junction
(edited when I realised there was an even nearer one than the one I first thought of)
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 3, 2019 15:28:57 GMT
Hmm, well it shouldn't be, roads are numbered based on the lowest sector they pass through, the A4xxx sector is a triangle with vertices roughly at London, Bristol and Holyhead. Gallions Hill is in the A1 sector so all roads should start with a 1.
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Post by Chris M on Jul 3, 2019 16:16:45 GMT
Gallions Hill is actually in the 2 sector, as the 1-2 boundary is the River Thames not the A2. The numbering rule is actually the furthest anti-clockwise zone, not the lowest number) so the A406 is correctly numbered as it starts on the A4 in West London (the A282 should though have a number starting 1).
My "nowhere near a road starting with 4" clue could have been better phrased though.
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Post by Dom K on Jul 3, 2019 17:54:44 GMT
Can see this thread is on the verge of a drift but actually discussing the numbering of roads is quite interesting. Would people like a separate thread for this or do you think it has already run its course?
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Post by rincew1nd on Jul 3, 2019 20:15:30 GMT
Admin comment As I'm involved in this thread I wouldn't usually get involved in any coloured ink on this thread; however:
I think the quiz team have sufficiently explained their rationale for the clues given, although they may have (at times) been slightly questionable.
If members want to talk about road numbering in the 'On Diversion' board then they can, though we are an Underground forum.
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Post by superteacher on Jul 3, 2019 20:15:41 GMT
Thread drift in a quiz thread - I’ve heard it all now!
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Post by Dom K on Jul 3, 2019 20:50:32 GMT
It’s the end of the road for this thread 😂😂
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Post by norbitonflyer on Jul 3, 2019 21:03:47 GMT
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