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Post by arun on May 2, 2018 4:18:54 GMT
The catenary masts look much more like the old skinny 1500v ones that were recycled for the early GE suburban lines. I would say somewhere on the Cheshunt line north of Hackney Downs.
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Post by arun on Apr 15, 2018 5:53:14 GMT
Regarding the Washington metro station - It's been a while but either pentagon or farragut Square would be my guess.
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Post by arun on Apr 14, 2018 14:26:06 GMT
I agree Washington metro - though I seem to recall the lights flashing on the platform edges were in circular pits rather than rectangles.
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Post by arun on Apr 5, 2018 10:56:24 GMT
It has that ex-Great Eastern look about it. Therefore presumably somewhere on the TfL line East of Stratford. I'd go for Manor Park.
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Post by arun on Apr 1, 2018 20:14:29 GMT
Location D resembles battersea park
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Post by arun on Mar 15, 2018 21:50:42 GMT
Nice one Superteacher!
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Post by arun on Mar 15, 2018 13:34:28 GMT
Hmm - It obviously an old Southern Railway route judging by the footbridge and the third rail. Presumably it wouldn't be a quiz question unless it had a LU, LO or DLR connection. In view of the third rail we can probably exclude DLR except perhaps for a bit around Lewisham. The only places that spring to mind on ex-SR lines where there might also be a Underground connection would be somewhere on the Wimbledon or Richmond branches. If we're supposed to be looking for SR lines that have been taken over by LO, then the obvious one would be the long circular route fro Victoria to London Bridge i.e., the old South London line. One final possibility I suppose would be a short stretch of LO line approaching New Cross/New Cross Gate looking towards SR lines to/fro Croydon. However, I haven't got any further than that yet.
However, it does look like quite a long footbridge ? spanning four tracks so somewhere on the Wimbledon Branch would be my guess.
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Post by arun on Mar 15, 2018 9:38:13 GMT
Is it significant that the rails visible under the bridge appear not to have been getting much use? - going by the amount of rust on the tops.
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Post by arun on Mar 14, 2018 10:59:42 GMT
Should you wish to build one [and why wouldn't you?], dimensioned drawings and photographs may be found on pages 225 et seq of "Southern Nouveau" published 2017 by Irwell Press, ISBN 978-1-911262-02-2
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 10, 2018 13:20:06 GMT
No probs - I was seriously impressed by the Wiki article on Rear-Admiral Walter Cowan - not only did he serve before and during WW1 but in WW2 at the age of 70+ he was working on operations with No:8 Middle East Commando where he was awarded a second DSO. No: 8 Cdo of course was where Messrs Stirling and Mayne were serving [in N Africa] when they decided to form what became the Special Air Service.
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 10, 2018 10:36:50 GMT
Just to confirm for you [Norbitonflyer] that it was the RN and not the defunct Czarist Navy, the following gives you some names that you might care to Google or perhaps even look up in Wiki - "Faced with these events, the British and French governments decided upon an Allied military intervention in Russia. They had three objectives:
prevent the German or Bolshevik capture of Allied material stockpiles in Arkhangelsk mount an attack helping the Czechoslovak Legions stranded on the Trans-Siberian Railway[not in citation given] resurrect the Eastern Front by defeating the Bolshevik army with help from the Czechoslovak Legions[not in citation given] and an expanded anti-Bolshevik force of local citizens and stop the spread of communism and the Bolshevik cause in Russia.
U.S. troops in Vladivostok, August 1918 Severely short of troops to spare, the British and French requested that President Wilson provide American soldiers for the campaign. In July 1918, against the advice of the United States Department of War, Wilson agreed to the limited participation of 5,000 United States Army troops in the campaign. This force, which became known as the "American North Russia Expeditionary Force"[14] (a.k.a. the Polar Bear Expedition) were sent to Arkhangelsk while another 8,000 soldiers, organised as the American Expeditionary Force Siberia,[15] were shipped to Vladivostok from the Philippines and from Camp Fremont in California. That same month, the Canadian government agreed to the British government's request to command and provide most of the soldiers for a combined British Empire force, which also included Australian and Indian troops. Some of this force was the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force; another part was the North Russia Intervention. A Royal Navy squadron was sent to the Baltic under Rear-Admiral Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair. This force consisted of modern C-class cruisers and V and W-class destroyers. In December 1918, Sinclair sailed into Estonian and Latvian ports, sending in troops and supplies, and promising to attack the Bolsheviks "as far as my guns can reach". In January 1919, he was succeeded in command by Rear-Admiral Walter Cowan."
From that time onwards, the latter-day Bolsheviks have understandably been less than well-disposed towards the West - a state of affairs which extends to the present day in the sense of Russia feeling that it might be surrounded by potential enemies.
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Post by arun on Mar 10, 2018 10:27:11 GMT
There was a lot of civil war type strife in Russia between 1917 and 1919 - including Royal Naval gunboat actions in the Black Sea - let alone all the various White Russians vs. Bolsheviks battles. Do you mean "Royal"? The Czarist navy was surely "Imperial", and anyway would not have existed after the 1917 revolution. No - I mean Royal Navy - as in the UK's Navy. At least one VC was won by British forces and other Western countries assisting the White Russians against the Bolshevik hordes. For a simple description of the post-1917 Russian Civil War try Wiki - from which the following paragraph is taken: "The Western Allies armed and supported opponents of the Bolsheviks. They were worried about (1) a possible Russo-German alliance, (2) the prospect of the Bolsheviks making good on their threats to default on Imperial Russia's massive foreign loans and (3) the possibility that the Communist revolutionary ideas would spread (a concern shared by many Central Powers). Hence, many of these countries expressed their support for the Whites, including the provision of troops and supplies. Winston Churchill declared that Bolshevism must be "strangled in its cradle".[14] The British and French had supported Russia during World War I on a massive scale with war materials. After the treaty, it looked like much of that material would fall into the hands of the Germans. Under this pretext began allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the United Kingdom and France sending troops into Russian ports. There were violent clashes with troops loyal to the Bolsheviks."
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 10, 2018 0:23:06 GMT
There was a lot of civil war type strife in Russia between 1917 and 1919 - including Royal Naval gunboat actions in the Black Sea - let alone all the various White Russians vs. Bolsheviks battles. The gun barrel looks as though it might have been "spiked" so as to prevent its use by the other side so perhaps more likely to have been one of the White Russian vs Bolshevik skirmishes of the 1919 era.
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Post by arun on Mar 9, 2018 23:07:07 GMT
How about St Petersburg, October 1917
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Post by arun on Mar 3, 2018 23:37:12 GMT
Thank you - On the basis that Met, MDR and UERL were electrified by around 1902-1905, that suggests that tripcocks and trainstops were a fairly early safety measure.
Arun
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Post by arun on Mar 3, 2018 15:24:07 GMT
Is the insert in B, Earlsfield Terrace - the road that runs down the side of Paddington Stn?
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Post by arun on Mar 3, 2018 15:21:29 GMT
Further to a question raised on the Gauge 0 Guild member's forum this afternoon, does anyone know when the MDR, Met, UERL et al started using Tripcocks and Trainstops?
There are certainly pictures of GWR and LNER steam engines between 1930 and 1932 fitted with tripcocks [and of course the LT's forerunner's locos at that time] but when were they first used?
Arun
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Post by arun on Feb 19, 2018 1:16:33 GMT
Looks awfully like Marylebone concourse just behind the escalators to the Bakerloo line.
Arun
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Post by arun on Feb 14, 2018 13:15:43 GMT
Is the link that the lines shown were all part of the 1935 New Works program where LT lines were replacing "BR" lines and services?
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Post by arun on Feb 9, 2018 1:06:18 GMT
Yes, I think Wood Street for B as well
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Post by arun on Jan 11, 2018 9:55:16 GMT
The building with the clocktower looks very much like Burton on Trent Town hall - home of the annual DEMU model rail fest.
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 8, 2018 0:18:55 GMT
It rather reminds me of the passageway at Paddington on the way to the top of the Bakerloo escalator
Arun
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Post by arun on Jan 2, 2018 0:29:58 GMT
The inset is Vauxhall Tower - which had a helicopter crash into it whilst it was under construction. The river being the Thames. The main is a de-electrified bit of single track railway - probably somewhere between Epping and Ongar.
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Post by arun on Dec 21, 2017 13:09:40 GMT
Inset 7 looks like the air raid shelter at Didcot Railway Centre.
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Post by arun on Dec 19, 2017 19:51:24 GMT
Sorry Superteacher, I was being unclear. If Oystercard holders want to go to Reading [lets say from Romford for arguments sake], why wouldn't they change to a fast service at PAD?
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Post by arun on Dec 19, 2017 19:28:52 GMT
Domh245 commented on Oystercard holders washing up in Reading. Given that the Elizabeth line trains are supposed to stop at all the intermediate stations out of PAD at least as far as Maidenhead [as I understand it] why would anyone in their right mind get on a cl.345 when they could get on a non-stop 800/802/HST from PAD to RDG?
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Post by arun on Dec 17, 2017 18:45:58 GMT
Could it be the Berlin S-Bahn?
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Post by arun on Dec 1, 2017 0:16:56 GMT
A reminds me of Island gardens and D looks rather like Salford Quays - just by IWM [N]
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Post by arun on Nov 27, 2017 16:19:00 GMT
The catenary supports look like the lightweight GE stuff so I would say, somewhere between James Street and Walthamstow Central aka Hoe Street
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Post by arun on Nov 26, 2017 20:41:47 GMT
Waterloo
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