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Post by arun on Nov 9, 2018 18:28:47 GMT
Like Brigham, I note the red brick and the Eurostars in the background of A - I'll go with St Pancras also
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Post by arun on Nov 9, 2018 11:43:05 GMT
Outset in B looks almost like Islamic tilework - How about the Registan in Samarkand [just dropping names!]
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Post by arun on Oct 27, 2018 5:51:37 GMT
The castle thing looks rather like Tynemouth
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Post by arun on Oct 24, 2018 9:04:17 GMT
From inspection of the cap badge, the inset is of a first world war artilleryman - So I would imagine that the inset is from the large monument to the RA located outside the old St George's Hospital at Hyde Park Corner.
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Post by arun on Oct 14, 2018 14:30:37 GMT
Thank you Rincew1nd - That was hard work!
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Post by arun on Oct 13, 2018 17:08:42 GMT
Nisiros looks to have a couple of small islands [to the West] as per the picture......
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Post by arun on Oct 13, 2018 12:01:46 GMT
East of Naxos then - How about Astipalia then?
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Post by arun on Oct 12, 2018 21:44:59 GMT
Hmm nearer to Santorini/Thera and the same sort of size and nearer than Thera is to Crete - with a couple of smaller islands - How about Naxos then?
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Post by arun on Oct 12, 2018 11:36:00 GMT
Since there are an awful lot of Greek islands, lets go for the biggest - North coast of Crete also has that distinctive white-washed look.
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Post by arun on Oct 12, 2018 7:43:57 GMT
Santorini springs to mind for the inset
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Post by arun on Oct 8, 2018 11:02:34 GMT
I think inset A is a SWT class 158/9 at Basingstoke
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Post by arun on Oct 2, 2018 8:28:29 GMT
Agree on Kyle of Lochalsh. The bottom left insert is one of the new in service manchester trams at St Peters Square. Bottom right insert is Alresford on the Watercress line
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Post by arun on Sept 26, 2018 17:58:32 GMT
Could we have an answer for this one please?
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Post by arun on Sept 16, 2018 10:07:34 GMT
It has that Gt Eastern look about it. Between Hackney Downs and London Fields would be my best impression.
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Post by arun on Sept 15, 2018 20:37:47 GMT
B reminds me of the gate line at Paddington
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Post by arun on Aug 25, 2018 10:16:13 GMT
Here's hoping you get better soon
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Post by arun on Aug 22, 2018 7:12:59 GMT
Location A is Leytonstone Stn - just by the Church Lane/Kirkdale Road entrance.
Interestingly, having walked past it a a few days ago, I remember thinking that I should probably photograph the sign and wall and send it to our illustrious quizmaster for his library of possible questions! It seems, that great minds think alike!
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Post by arun on Aug 5, 2018 10:14:18 GMT
Thank you Stuartroy - That all makes sense now
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Post by arun on Aug 4, 2018 22:23:10 GMT
Thanks Norbitonflyer - It was the group of 23 that I had heard of though I'm still not sure how it works exactly.
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Post by arun on Aug 4, 2018 11:18:42 GMT
Whilst it is slightly off topic, I seem to recall that the incidence of birthdays is not uniformly spread through the year. There was a party trick [the statistical mechanism escapes me] where in a room of a thousand people, on quizzing, one in every nineteen would have the same birthday. Google suggests that [in the USA] 17 Dec is the most popular day for conception to occur!
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Post by arun on Jul 30, 2018 10:14:20 GMT
I agree with elsombernie - It looks like Walthamstow Marshes with the Lea Valley [Long]Distance Path running up the middle. The River Lea navigation should be on the left of the picture _?has it been "photoshopped out?
Arun
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Post by arun on Jul 27, 2018 11:15:01 GMT
Location A looks like the central line tunnel exit coming up at Leyton. Location B has a couple of those [quite rare now on LT] pre-fab ex-SR concrete platelayers huts next to the lines. The only place that I can recall seeing two together was Amersham.
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Post by arun on Jul 20, 2018 21:56:13 GMT
Is inset 7 the Battle of Britain operations bunker at RAF Uxbridge?
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Post by arun on Jul 14, 2018 20:16:41 GMT
See also the 1977 Guardian supplement on the history, geography and politics of the Indian Ocean island of San Seriffe - covered in Wikipedia for those who weren't around at the time.
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Post by arun on Jul 13, 2018 22:57:47 GMT
Is inset C, Urquhart castle halfway along Loch Ness?
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Post by arun on Jul 4, 2018 12:06:19 GMT
Given that its the anniversary of when Colonel George Washington did his revolution bit across the water, I suspect that the picture is related to the [US] Embassy Gardens development around Vauxhall on the South Bank.
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Post by arun on Jun 29, 2018 18:04:32 GMT
In the recent past i.e., within living memory, there have been several mixed stock trains in both scheduled passenger and engineer movements - viz., 1960 stock trains on the Central Line shuttles, 1935 stock trains on the same Central Line shuttles - both of which had standard stock trailers between later DM stock. Similarly [and earlier] in 1920 Cammell Laird trailers sandwiched between 1905 French-built ex-Piccadilly Line DMs to name just a few mixed stock trains. In more recent times, mixed 1956/59 stock trains operated on the Piccadilly as well as the classic 58 Standard stock trailers operating within 1938TS formations. The Central also had the 57 1962 NDMs which operated within 1959TS formations to increase the 3-car 1959 units transferred from the Piccadilly to 4-car sets on the Central. No doubt others more learned will come up with others. Didn't the Bakerloo run 38 stock with standard stock in the middle? Yes- the "58" trailers referred to above- Known as the 58 trailers because there were 58 of them though two of them were a bit strange because they were fitted with end doors.
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Post by arun on Jun 29, 2018 16:52:04 GMT
"Twin stock" is a bit misleading, I think. Maybe, although that was not the intent. I wanted a simple and succinct way to describe a highly unusual and rare working - a tube train comprising two different types of rolling stock. Simon In the recent past i.e., within living memory, there have been several mixed stock trains in both scheduled passenger and engineer movements - viz., 1960 stock trains on the Central Line shuttles, 1935 stock trains on the same Central Line shuttles - both of which had standard stock trailers between later DM stock. Similarly [and earlier] in 1920 Cammell Laird trailers sandwiched between 1905 French-built ex-Piccadilly Line DMs to name just a few mixed stock trains. In more recent times, mixed 1956/59 stock trains operated on the Piccadilly as well as the classic 58 Standard stock trailers operating within 1938TS formations. The Central also had the 57 1962 NDMs which operated within 1959TS formations to increase the 3-car 1959 units transferred from the Piccadilly to 4-car sets on the Central. No doubt others more learned will come up with others.
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Post by arun on May 29, 2018 9:52:28 GMT
From my records, all previous stock built from 1900's onward (with the exception of Gate Stock, 1920TS, F Stock or any prototype stock) have been preserved. Really? I don't think much electric surface stock survives earlier than Q stock - just one G-stock DM (aka Q23) from the District as far as I know. And no Metropolitan electric stock (including original Circle Line, H&C, GN&C) either, other than two cars of T stock. Isn't there still also a R49 DM lurking somewhere in the LTM Depot? Arun
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Post by arun on May 21, 2018 16:38:26 GMT
If there are no more clues for Inset 2, could we have the answer please to who these two ?astronomers are?
Arun
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