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Post by arun on Aug 1, 2019 12:38:22 GMT
The buildings in the main look like one of the Peabody Estates in Hackney - especially with the ?ex-GE OHLE. So near Hackney Downs would be my best guess.
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Post by arun on Aug 1, 2019 12:35:38 GMT
Near Cambridge Heath?
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Post by arun on Jul 27, 2019 12:10:00 GMT
Inset D is St Nectarios Church in Faliraki on the island of Rhodes [but it does look awfully like the one Kim Novak fell out of!]
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Post by arun on Jul 26, 2019 9:57:27 GMT
The lower inset in D looks suspiciously like the adobe chapel in San Diego that Kim Novak fell out of in the film "Vertigo"
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Post by arun on Jul 18, 2019 8:25:00 GMT
Central Line by Debden possibly
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Post by arun on Jul 18, 2019 8:23:59 GMT
C looks Cotswold stone-like
Somewhere on the Oxford Canal by Islip perhaps
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Post by arun on Jul 15, 2019 8:34:27 GMT
The RH inset is shows one of the newish class 68 locos in TPE livery together with a DRS loco [possibly class 47]. Since there are only a couple of class 68s in this livery at present, possibly the pic was taken at the Crewe Open Day on Jun 21 this year.
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Post by arun on Jul 14, 2019 21:01:21 GMT
The inset is certainly a WW2-era USSR-inspired war memorial but since it's not an especially large one, it would probably be a provincial one rather than one from say, Stalingrad or one of the other major battlefields. It isn't especially stylized in the way that many of the non-soviet Warsaw Pact memorials were so I would say it comes from a small town somewhere in present-day European Russia or Belarus.
I suspect that unless someone has actually seen this statue, that the chances of it being identified are vanishingly small.
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Post by arun on Jul 9, 2019 14:26:09 GMT
I'm guessing that the inset is one of Dimitri's Balkan pictures. The clothing looks a little strange as in many Soviet-era memorials, the figures are wearing helmets. Perhaps somewhere in the Former Yugoslavia?
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Post by arun on Jun 26, 2019 10:20:33 GMT
Is it because South Acton has both conductor rails and OHLE whereas the others are just conductor rail fitted?
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Post by arun on Jun 14, 2019 15:12:50 GMT
The multi-sided lighthouse in A looks like Old baldy in North Carolina
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Post by arun on Jun 6, 2019 13:35:27 GMT
Between Moor Park and Rickmansworth with the ex-GCR main line on the left
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Post by arun on May 8, 2019 11:50:56 GMT
Is location C Earls Court
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Post by arun on Apr 18, 2019 19:53:38 GMT
I agree +1 for York Minster
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Post by arun on Apr 14, 2019 8:30:12 GMT
Leyton Midland Station I think
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Post by arun on Apr 13, 2019 10:33:15 GMT
Were they all past termini or places where Network Rail took over infrastructure responsibilities from LT/TfL?
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Post by arun on Apr 11, 2019 8:45:59 GMT
Looks like the early form of GE catenary - Somewhere on the Chingford branch like Wood Street perhaps?
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Post by arun on Mar 31, 2019 11:21:48 GMT
I recall being irritated by the phrase 'A company called Associated Commercial Vehicles (ACV)' when I first read this article. Far from being the fly-by-night outfit implied, ACV was the holding company set up by AEC when it bought Maudslay, Crossley and Park Royal Vehicles. So a definite railways heritage if only marginally connected to LT rail. AEC was the bus building/engineering element of the LGOC which was, in turn, a wholly owned subsidiary of the UERL so whilst the legal side of things changed quite a lot in June 1933, AEC and its subsidiaries had always had a relationship with what became LT rail - though possibly not so with the Metropolitan side of the shop. You might argue that the relationship of AEC and its bits to LT was the same as the relationship of UCC Feltham to LT.
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Post by arun on Mar 12, 2019 22:48:52 GMT
In that case, the obvious "educated" guess would be that the bridge is the smaller of the two bridges [the most westerly] at Ilkley in Wharfedale.
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Post by arun on Mar 12, 2019 10:53:45 GMT
There aren't many small towns and villages in Wharfedale accessible by train and which have smallish bridges crossing the Wharfe. Bolton Abbey [or just East of it] has an old bridge crossing the A59 and would qualify I suppose.
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Post by arun on Mar 11, 2019 19:45:22 GMT
That's useful - So somewhere in Wharfedale then.
It's not Hubberholme or Kettlewell so possibly Buckden then.
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Post by arun on Mar 11, 2019 17:20:45 GMT
Well it still seems to me that insetD is a Pennine Way bridge so since it's in Yorkshire I would go for one of the bridges over the River Aire such as at Newfield.
I'm guessing that the bridge in image A is one of Dmitri's Eastern European ones.
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Post by arun on Mar 11, 2019 14:55:04 GMT
Any chances of another clue for inset D - I'm fairly sure I've seen this bridge but I can't remember when or where!
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Post by arun on Mar 8, 2019 15:12:49 GMT
The inset in D looks like one of the Pennine Way bridges - Perhaps over the R South Tyne at Bellingham
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 4, 2019 16:12:21 GMT
The top castle looks like Caerphilly castle and the inset looks rather like Leeds Castle in Kent
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Post by arun on Mar 1, 2019 9:11:45 GMT
A looks like a genuine bit of Metroland - Possibly Northwick Park
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Post by arun on Feb 25, 2019 8:15:23 GMT
Clapton I think
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Post by arun on Feb 13, 2019 15:45:35 GMT
Is B [inset] Krakow? For information: The first K stock car was delivered from BRCW and arrived at Lillie Bridge Depot on 01 Oct 1928. The first train was recorded as ready for service in mid-Nov 1928. The 27 [in Q27] is believed to refer to the requisition approval date for the stock [1927] - from "District Electric Trains" by Piers Connor as published by LURS.
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Post by arun on Feb 12, 2019 15:50:09 GMT
C2 looks like a form of the Devanagari script - Assuming K is the theme then Kolcuta [Calcutta as was] is possible. I'm surmising that WBTC = West Bengal Transit Company.
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Post by arun on Feb 12, 2019 11:22:42 GMT
Also assuming K is correct, then the Glasgow Underground station might be Kelvinbridge
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