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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2007 6:02:09 GMT
today we have a one part question with a few extras to guess aswell Question:  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by pgb on Oct 20, 2007 7:05:00 GMT
Is that the old bay platform at Acton Town? As for the extra's. That looks suspiciously like the Llangollen to me. The lifeboat I'm not sure about though, but we have lots of yachts..Cowes?
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Post by suncloud on Oct 20, 2007 7:14:47 GMT
Surely its the Isle of Sodor on the left?
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Post by trainopd78 on Oct 20, 2007 8:28:05 GMT
The picture has been mirrored.  |
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Post by Oracle on Oct 20, 2007 8:39:53 GMT
If it's Acton Town is the pic mirrored, and that's the Works shunting neck next to the WB Local (District usually)? The "bay" which presumably is referring to the shuttle platform, is behind hoardings or was!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2007 10:30:34 GMT
could be edgeware road (sub surface) westbound?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2007 11:11:47 GMT
Acton Toon, flipped picture, RNLI boat looks like its at St Peter Port, Gurnsey. As to the Number 6 Green Engine, I can't place it at the moment!
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Post by mrfs42 on Oct 20, 2007 13:53:31 GMT
Green engine's deffo Llangollen, the pic is taken from the road bridge looking down towards teh signalbox.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2007 14:55:44 GMT
If it's Acton Town is the pic mirrored, and that's the Works shunting neck next to the WB Local (District usually)? The "bay" which presumably is referring to the shuttle platform, is behind hoardings or was! You've got it. The real adverts look like they haven't been touched in several years! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2007 5:53:08 GMT
Answer: Main photograph: Acton Town - siding adjacent to WB local platform. [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) Inset photograph 1: Percy The Small Engine at Llangollen on the Lllangollen Railway [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) Background photograph 2: RNLI Severn Class lifeboat in St Peter Port harbour, Guernsey [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by Oracle on Oct 21, 2007 8:02:54 GMT
siding adjacent to WB local platform. Known it (and the one adjacent to it) and been fascinated for some reason for 40+ years! I have never seen any stock reverse in there, or the Works Shunter either! As a kid I always wanted to.  |
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Post by Chris M on Oct 21, 2007 10:34:28 GMT
RNLI boat looks like its at St Peter Port, Gurnsey I am particularly impressed by this - I wasn't expecting anyone to recognise St Peter Port, especially with only part of the picture. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2007 10:44:44 GMT
I can recognise St Peter Port now from the harbour steps. Isn't it St Peter Port which has the biggest difference between high and low tide heights - it is quite noticeable when you get the small ferry to Herm.
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Post by Chris M on Oct 21, 2007 12:46:10 GMT
I don't know what the tidal difference at St Peter Port is, but the Bristol Channel has the highest range in Europe (and second highest in the world) at up to 13-15 metres, depending on the source. Swansea Bay and just about every beach/port/estuary upstream of Cardiff/Bridgwater claims to have the highest on the channel, but the only definitive statement I've found with a quick search is that the 1955 edition of the Guiness Book of Records stated the highest recorded tidal difference in Britain was recorded at Chepstow.
Everywhere agrees that the highest tidal range in the world occurs in the Bay of Fundy in north-eastern Canada.
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Post by tubeprune on Oct 21, 2007 12:55:13 GMT
siding adjacent to WB local platform. Known it (and the one adjacent to it) and been fascinated for some reason for 40+ years! I have never seen any stock reverse in there, or the Works Shunter either! As a kid I always wanted to. Stock used to reverse there regularly, as well as the old DR wheelset loco. There was a bunch of District crews at Acton who used to pilot trains in and out of the works. It was a 3-shift job and it was the coveted roster for the most senior crews. Since there was rarely more than one train a day, they did very little work. They spent most of their time sitting in the canteen reading and playing cards. The only time they were normally seen to move was when the mess room attendant came round to sweep the floor and they had to get out of their chairs. For this reason, they were known to everyone as "the depot furniture". |
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