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Post by arun on Mar 18, 2020 9:51:46 GMT
Inset 1 looks like the peak tramway in Hong Kong
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Post by arun on Mar 16, 2020 14:16:53 GMT
According to Wiki, the date 14 March is relevant: The first treaty signed at Utrecht was the truce between France and Portugal on 7 November, followed by the truce between France and Savoy on 14 March 1714. That same day, Spain, Great Britain, France and the Empire agreed to the evacuation of Catalonia and an armistice in Italy. Essentially the various Treaties of Utrecht signed away Gibraltar to the UK and bought to an end the Wars of the Spanish Succession.
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Post by arun on Mar 16, 2020 11:03:59 GMT
Well it's obviously an airport runway and the runway has water at least on one side - So how about Gibraltar?
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Post by arun on Mar 16, 2020 8:00:27 GMT
Not exactly the biggest inset but it does look like Portmerion seen from the bay
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Post by arun on Mar 13, 2020 10:02:32 GMT
I think A is Acton Town with D being Empress State Building overlooking triangle sidings
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Post by arun on Feb 28, 2020 16:24:24 GMT
Well, I for one appreciate your efforts
Arun
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Post by arun on Feb 27, 2020 13:08:43 GMT
VCR - Because it is the only one without a letter "D" in it!
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Post by arun on Feb 27, 2020 11:17:07 GMT
Over on the left, there seems to be a chap with the whole world on his shoulders!
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Post by arun on Feb 27, 2020 11:15:27 GMT
As the February 11 quiz shows, there can be several devious solutions to say, the connection between quiz pictures. However, it is clear that there is usually only one correct answer scribbled on the quizmaster's crib sheet. Since several of these alternative answers are at least as interesting and informative as the official answer, can some form of constructive credit [say half a point?] be awarded for those that are also correct but not chosen?
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Post by arun on Feb 26, 2020 11:28:03 GMT
The bit of OLE in the middle looks like London Fields
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Post by arun on Feb 20, 2020 11:00:21 GMT
The top pic is presumably one of Dmitri's as it is the Palace of the Trade Unions in Minsk
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Post by arun on Feb 11, 2020 17:05:35 GMT
C is Three Mill Studio on the River Lea
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Post by arun on Feb 7, 2020 21:54:58 GMT
There are a couple of islands NW of Rhodes that have an isthmus - Simi and Megalon spring to mind. I'll try Megalon.
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Post by arun on Feb 5, 2020 11:53:32 GMT
Is this Iver - It has the feel of the GW main line with its separated fast and slow lines about it.
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Post by arun on Jan 29, 2020 16:37:33 GMT
Excellent
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Post by arun on Jan 28, 2020 9:41:23 GMT
There is a classic short SF story by ?Philip K Dick that tells of an extension to an american subway system that seemingly turns a loop line into a Moebius Strip and regularly a train goes missing as the line folds back on itself and becomes a continuous double-sided loop.
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Post by arun on Jan 13, 2020 17:20:34 GMT
Judging by the fact that people seem to be talking to each other, and what appears to be a man outside in hi-vis, I would say that this is taken inside one of the LTM 1938 cars inside the museum - presumably the Depot at Acton rather than the foreshortened car at Covent Garden.
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Post by arun on Jan 9, 2020 9:41:17 GMT
The bit of railway looks like the Chingford line between Walthamstow and Wood Street
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Post by arun on Jan 8, 2020 10:15:33 GMT
That would suggest to my simplistic brain that D would be a station whose name begins with D such as Drayton Park - It doesn't look like Debden or Dollis Hill which I think are the only other tube stations beginning with D. You got the right answer, but you may wish to apologise to the residents of Dagenham! Well, I would but for the fact that the two Dagenham stations are Surface gauge rather than Tube gauge stations. But of course I will happily apologise to those residents of Dagenham who understand the difference. There again, the Gt Northern & City stations are not really tube gauge either [apart from the bit borrowed by the Victoria Line] - Therefore gracious apologies to all the residents of Dagenham!
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Post by arun on Jan 7, 2020 14:57:23 GMT
That would suggest to my simplistic brain that D would be a station whose name begins with D such as Drayton Park - It doesn't look like Debden or Dollis Hill which I think are the only other tube stations beginning with D.
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Post by arun on Jan 4, 2020 13:55:37 GMT
Could it be Hayes & Harlington?
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Post by arun on Jan 4, 2020 9:49:13 GMT
Background is Castello del Millazzo in Sicily - not sure about the spelling
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Post by arun on Jan 4, 2020 8:19:49 GMT
C looks like a class 387 EMU so somewhere on the slow lines of the GWML. Possibly West Drayton
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Post by arun on Jan 3, 2020 11:15:30 GMT
Between Bethnal Green and Cambridge Heath for D
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Post by arun on Dec 21, 2019 11:43:41 GMT
judging by the OHLE, it looks rather like the Gt Western main line. Is today the anniversary of when class 345s were first supposed to work the line - as opposed to when they actually did?
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Post by arun on Dec 17, 2019 11:14:09 GMT
It's been a while since I've been there, but could D be the subway tunnel at Leytonstone?
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Post by arun on Dec 5, 2019 10:19:25 GMT
Inset 1 is Malaya Zemlja V Novorossijske Memorial Complex - I'm guessing that it is one of Dmitri's
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Post by arun on Nov 29, 2019 11:41:56 GMT
As a pedant [pronounced pee-dant rather than ped-ant] who has spent a significant number of years on ships, I note that a diagram showing one how to get from point A to point B is actually defined as a "chart" rather than a "map". A map normally has the characteristic of being a representation of the ground with accurate distances and angles between points marked on it. Thus M'Lud, I would suggest that Harry Beck's Map should more accurately be referred to as Harry Beck's Chart!
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Post by arun on Nov 20, 2019 16:08:47 GMT
Ah! Possibly somewhere like Brockley then
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Post by arun on Nov 20, 2019 9:56:02 GMT
If the rather strange colour scheme is anything to go by then it's a Southern station waiting room [as opposed to say, an SWR one]. Could it be St Mary's Cray?
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