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It's five years to the day since I posted this photo of Robert's which he'd been unable to identify. I titled it
#whatstation
1. We crossed our fingers for a helpful reply and had two replies naming it as Launceston...
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The railway at
#whatstation
807 might have inspired Emett with its quaint tank engine and eclectic train. Back gardens to the left, industrial building and grass-grown sidings, centre and an out-of-scale signal box on the right. Can anyone identify this fascinating site, please?
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#whatstation
802's has a substantial stationmaster's house, canopied ticket office/waiting room and two passengers. On the opposite platform there's a brick waiting shelter, a two-man discussion group and an unusual skeletal barrow. Can anyone put a name to this place, please?
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Up north or down south, it's grim at
#whatstation
803. Three or four platforms and a centre road, was it a terminus? Deep cutting, signal box and overbridge in the distance, left hand track still possibly in use (if not a terminus). Can anyone identify this creepy place, please?
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Never thought to see this again. Ratcliff on Soar, now.
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#notwhatstation
2024
Wrong answers only of course.
Happy New Year to everyone still following us despite our resounding silence over the last two months.
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#whatstation
806 is a little terminus with a big tree. It's probably lost its passenger service but kept its canopy; it is still handling goods. Sombre brick building and a view to possibly a row of shops with flats over. Can anyone identify this place for us, please?
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No station in
#whatstation
808? There's a big yard, an elevated line, probably heading to join the main line which runs obliquely across the lower edge of the photo. And, at a higher level, a dock, possibly still under construction. Can anyone identify this busy place, please?
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Midland Hotel, Morecambe, if you didn't know. The epitome of railway hotels.
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So here is
#whatstation
809, a lively railtour scene at an industrial site centred on a large timber yard. The wagons in the foreground might be an engineers' train; there could be a through line behind the vans. No station though! Can anyone say where this is, please?
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The symmetry of the track in the foreground of
#whatstation
770 is so satisfying. It's probably a terminus, the overarching footbridge doesn't seem to serve the platforms. Four platforms, carriage sidings, smallish town in rolling country. Can anyone tell us where, please?
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#whatstation
714 is a bleak spot in a severe South Wales landscape. Neglected platform, footbridge apparently spanning a disused bay, distant stone building and another bridge. A low wall divides the platform line from the rest. Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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A hazy morning at
#whatstation
800 as 4156 drifts through with a mixed goods train. Cheery signalman, huge water tank, stone building, charming site by the river in a wooded valley, unfortunately no view of the station itself. Can anyone work out where it is, please?
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#whatstation
783 is a John Poyntz photo. It shows a wooden shack cunningly united with a grounded coach. Robert insists it is an ex station, in the Andover area judging by adjacent negatives, but I don't see it myself. Where is the platform edge? Can anyone identify, please?
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The signal box at
#whatstation
722 is a thing of beauty. Those barge boards! We have seen very similar boxes on the Taff Vale line, a hopeful clue. For the rest - at least two platforms and a particularly long foot bridge. Can anyone identify this place, please?
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A late night
#notwhatstation
. This fascinating image appeared mysteriously on our counter this morning. It's all go here with three trains in view plus a random coach we can't account for. Who knows where? We do, and will reveal the location at 00:00hrs or thereabouts.
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We think we know where this
#notwhatstation
is but can't find a photo that proves it beyond doubt. So we might be wrong. Can anyone help, please? Also, if this is where we think, both ends have bays like these. Are we facing up or down the line?
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Look what my little sis found on fb! It's a
#notwhatstation
but one that will not puzzle anyone looking here three weeks ago.
A great view from 1890 which we have not seen before.
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What is happening?! asks Twitter, with an excess of punctuation. I think we can all see what is happening, the big question is Where?!
#whatstation
771, short name on the box, starting with E or B?! Beautiful hilly country. Can anyone tell us what station, please?
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At least four platforms at
#whatstation
780, probably a bay on the right. 42416's allocations to Ladybank, Bangor and Saltley don't do much to narrow our possibilities. Note the huge building (hotel? institution?) and nicely made canopies. Can anyone identify this place, please?
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A classic D MacMillan shot from the train. This is Scotland, surely? Probably just the island platform, it seems a tiny place. Note the distant signal arm leaning on the grounded van body and the English Electric truck in the carpark. Can anyone identify the station, please?
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Buffer-stop kissing with the RCTS at
#whatstation
779 - a doomed branch visited just in time.
Station building, if any, hidden by dmu, stone building (engine shed?) to left, large new building with crane in yard on right, suburban background. Can anyone say where this is, please?
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#whatstation
784 is most definitely a station, it has a junction, two panniers, a footbridge, interesting dagger boards, a back view of the running-in board, a water tower and crane and, unusually, a large notice offering drinking water. Can anyone tell us where it is, please?
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#whatstation
275 is a panorama of a busy mid-C19 railway centre. Teeming with sheds, motive power, rolling stock, a massive water tower. New housing climbs the hillside. The railwaymen have noticed the photographer. Can anyone identify the place for us, please?
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#whatstation
725 plays second fiddle to a beautifully turned-out Caley 4-4-0. Motherwell shed plate, probably within months of withdrawal in 1962. She has allured schoolboys and an undergraduate. Briefcase man walks on by. Big station, can anyone tell us which one, please?
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#whatstation
801 lies in a shallow cutting and boasts two signal boxes, antique signals and a wealth of motive power. When that line of locos moves on we shall be able to cop the numbers of the one(s) on the adjacent road. Urban location. Can anyone identify the place, please?
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#whatstation
786 is sufficiently important for the York Express to stop here, although no-one is waiting for it, they are all on P3. I suppose we can assume the ECML? Four platforms, slightly staggered, milk churns on the platform. Can anyone say where this is, please?
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No
#whatstation
for six months 🙁.
We had a bad winter and a poor spring but things are improving so here is a
#notwhatstation
* just to get going again.
*ie, not a real
#whatstation
because I have already solved this one myself. Robert didn't spot the totems!
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A two-coach train screams to a halt at
#whatstation
782. No passengers await, except maybe the photographer.
Generous canopy, louvred ventilators on a curved roof. Other buildings and signals too distant to make out. Line appears to curve left. Can anyone identify it, please?
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#whatstation
790, or rather
#whatbridge
- no station here, just two saddle tanks taking a train of third class coaches across a trestle bridge. Those little engines look so familiar, but not the bridge. Might just be in Wales, can anyone identify the location, please?
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#whatstation
805 is one for the eagle-eyed RIB readers. I can't make it out, the letters change as I zoom in.
What a scene though, smart new paint and the staff fading off into the distance. Hillside site, footbridge, large wooden building. Can anyone place this station, please?
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#whatstation
810 is overhung by a terrace of substantial Victorian houses apparently on a cliff edge. Little of the two story station building is visible, our only other clues being the curved platform and the dmu (demu?). Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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Two words on the damaged* totem, second starts with C.
#whatstation
735 with its large building and mean platform is buzzing; a large expensive diesel loco hauls two non-corridor coaches, a state-of-the-art 2-6-2T has maybe two more. Can anyone tell us where, please?
*not guilty.
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A
#notwhatstation
on a long-gone joint branch line photographed soon after closure. It had a minimal goods yard with a short siding and a weighing machine. No footbridge obviously, and no signal box. It did have a bench mark, 206.5 ft above sea level.
Solution later this evening.
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There's a lot of railway at
#whatstation
673, more or less at ground level so if it's London it's probably not central. A railway works on the right? Third rail, eight tracks, three trains, signal box, distant overbridge. No station! Can anyone identify this place, please?
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#whatstation
625 has everything except an overall roof. Cattle dock, goods shed, signal box, footbridge, horticulture, water crane, old school railwaymen and three trains. Despite the rural scenery there's a big works and more railway on the right. Can anyone identify it, please?
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#whatstation
730 with its idiosyncratic half-timbering, gables, climbing roses and wooden goods shed is impossibly cute. I can't make out the running in board, the nature of the hand-driven machinery nor whether the line terminates here. Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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@MrTimDunn
@WellsCathedral1
There is a garden behind the cathedral; this is where the wells (springs) are. They are worth a look too as an astonishing and impressive natural phenomenon - massive quantities of water churning up out of the ground into deep and rather mysterious pools.
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No station at
#whatstation
822, unless John Poyntz was standing on the footbridge. 33020, an Eastleigh loco, is in low wooded country passing a junction with quite a distinctive track layout, and those is all the clues we have. Does anyone recognise this junction, please?
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Well this looks easy. Here's a train for Airdrie, apparently in a terminus. So
#whatstation
465 is one of the Airdrie stations? I don't think it is (although naturally happy to be corrected). Is it even a terminus? Nice glazed canopies anyway. Can anyone tell us where, please?
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The scenery in
#whatstation
769 is slightly unreal. Small lake, meadow, cart track, hills; there's a tunnel ahead, right? Goods train, signal box, foreman's bothy. No station, but the photo is taken from a bridge, it may be behind us. Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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A spare set of points lies on the ballast at
#whatstation
788, perhaps for a line to serve the other platform. Brick buildings, neat platform shelter, platform signal box, lq signals, hilly countryside. 2ft gauge? Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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Summer time, as warm and sunny as 31 December. Nothing stirs at this
#notwhatstation
which serves a prosperous but sleepy market town. Clue: I'm asking
@thelostrailways
(if he is around) to keep mum for an hour, after which I'll reveal the signal box nameboard if necessary.
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How odd! A house almost on the track. But is there an actual station
@whatstation
505? Possible siding beyond bridge, left. Possible end of platform where photographer is standing. Signal beyond bridge, box behind camera on right, somewhere. Can anyone identify this spot, please?
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What's happening? asks Twitter. Well at
#whatstation
751, absolutely zilch.
7 platforms, minimum
1 distant train
1 pigeon
0 people
and 1 very brave photographer.
Can anyone identify this eerily deserted terminus, please?
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Here's a bleak spot : it looks as though Dr Beeching has it in for
#whatstation
450, passing loop lifted some while ago, signs removed, rubble on the platform, but the track is well maintained and clearly a service still runs. Can anyone identify this lonely GW outpost, please?
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A J Baxter must always have worried that one day a train would fail to stop at
#whatstation
534 and park itself in his shop. Grassy trackbed and platform but bright rails and a beaten path by the fence say the line isn't closed yet. Can anyone name this dejected terminus, please?
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#whatstation
671 is a puzzling underground facility. Probably not a station, the platforms are too low. Is it even in Britain? There is a central third rail, but no fourth rail is visible. And what about the two footbridges? Can anyone throw any light on this dark spot, please?
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A standard gauge? line flanked by a metalled road disappears from view round a steep hillside; a branch plunges into a smartly portalled tunnel. Too smart for a mineral line? Doesn't look up to passenger standard. Can anyone locate
#whatstation
796, please?
No station, of course.
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#whatstation
659 stands in a precipitous but homely landscape. Estate fencing, cows on the line, four assorted sheds and a coal merchant's bothy, wagons. Is there even a station? Can anyone identify this rural idyll, please?
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The Loco Club of Great Britain have reached
#whatstation
716 in their magnificently double-headed special. Is the second word Junction? There's no evidence of another line in the photo. Roadside station, footbridge, neat flowerbeds, classic motors. Can anyone identify it, please?
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No station at
#whatstation
777 but large building - shed or works - on left; industrial buildings on right. 65814's wagons contain pulverised material (ash, coal?).
Bike shed, separate line at higher level, 3rd rail. Can anyone locate this canyon-like stretch of line, please?
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We can see the station master reflected in the shiny dmu standing at
#whatstation
816, he stands behind the guard who's hurrying forward for a word with the driver. Wooden buildings and footbridge, spoil heap or hill in background. Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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The promised
#notwhatstation
. Can anyone read the name on the second lamp? I can't so I only covered the first. Hoping the name doesn't appear on any of these fine adverts either but I can't spot it - we can be sure that this is not Felixstowe. Solution around teatime.
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Friday night
#notwhatstation
.
It's a largish station in a hilly district with a good range of railway buildings in view. Note especially the large water tower (or is it?) straddling the embankment with a line of wagons disappearing beneath.
Solution later this evening, if needed.
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53807, a Bath Green Park loco, shunts a six wheel milk tanker at
#whatstation
819, a rather ramshackle industrial complex. Perhaps it is just a cheese factory. I wonder what the big rack thing is behind the chimney. Can anyone identify this location for us, please?
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Have to admit
#whatstation
726 has a familiar look to it, but I've already wasted time identifying another photo, so here is a tall signal, level crossing and utilitarian footbridge, which might add up to an easy starter for the New Year. Can anyone tell us where, please?
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Here's a Friday afternoon
#notwhatstation
. Plenty of clues, the very handsome road bridge over the river will give the game away if the overhead does not. Despite the wires a steam engine can be seen approaching, beyond the bridge. Solution at tea time, whenever that may be.
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Bank Holiday
#notwhatstation
. Nice bargeboards but mean platforms, very rural - no village nearby. Nevertheless it survived till 1960, when an unfortunate accident closed the line. Grassy track and boarded box suggest our photo was taken soon after.
Solution later this evening
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#holidaysnaps
Park South signal box (left, 1883) is just lovely, very Arts & Crafts with battered walls and low-browed eaves. It's Furness Railway Type 3 of which only three are left. 1/2
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#whatstation
462 - is it the canopy, right, or the large roof, background centre? Who cares, really, with this glorious clutter of bothies, wagons and locomotives (see, I found a pacific!) to enjoy. Oh to be the happy spotter on the hillside. Can anyone tell us where, please?
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#whatstation
744 has a splendid ornate footbridge and two recently extended platforms. It is thirty miles from somewhere, probably London. There is pointwork in the foreground and one of the footplatemen is taking time for a fag. Can anyone tell us where, please?
1/2
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It's 10:04 on a bright winter's morning at
#whatstation
507, the signalman's kettle is on the stove and the coal merchant has tons of fuel bagged for delivery. The C6(?), having removed the empty wagons, now shunts the brake van. Can anyone identify this hive of industry, please?
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#whatstation
795 is in a shallow cutting, accessed from the road overbridge. Cluster of wooden platform buildings, line still in use? station certainly isn't. Nice row of trees, eloquent lamp post poses the question. Where is this, can anyone tell us, please?
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Unless P1 has a through line,
#whatstation
754 is a terminus. The canopy structure is unusually sturdy, built to withstand hurricane force winds maybe. Nice glazed extension over the concourse, distinctive tower, should I recognise it? Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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This grand photo was to have been
#ws
800 but R spotted the station name on the print (cut off by the scan) so it's demoted to a
#notwhatstation
. Spot the photographer's holdall!
Solution after tea, bonus points to anyone who knows what the rivetted bucket thing on the bunker is.
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An underground railway in the cellar! And this is only one branch of it. Does anyone recognise it? Location and further nerdy info if required in about half an hour.
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#whatstation
789 has wildflowers growing on both platforms and a line of pollarded willows divides it from the wooded country beyond. It's probably closed but the line is not. Single story building, hipped roofed signal box, so few clues! Can anyone say where this is, please?
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#whatstation
820 is a GNSR two road engine shed, nicely symmetrical; outside 62271 basks in winter sunshine. She was allocated to Kittybrewster and Keith, needless to say this is neither of those. It looks very remote, can anyone identify it for us, please?
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Here's another
#whatstation
which I solved myself but I've just spent a good hour trying to find out its exact site, which turns out to be over 300 miles from where I supposed.
I scanned it so I'll post it - here it is as a New Year's brainteaser. Answer later if no-one gets it.
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Engine sheds are tricky for
#whatstation
but at least for
#330
we're in no doubt of the railway and there are distant buildings, including a clock tower, which might still be there (might even be the station). And it's big, at least 6 roads. Can anyone identify it for us, please?
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Since
#whatstation
505 I have been enthusiastically researching the
#LeicesterandSwannington
Rly (1832).
@railexpress
found a photo from a 1909 American journal which by happy chance we have. Here's that photo again: note 2 signals, signal wires, bridge plate (it's still 26). 1/-
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#whatstation
750 is a signal box. I'll be surprised if it is not in south Wales, the graceful bargeboards and cream brick dressings are typical. The line curves around a hillside, but there seems to be an underbridge by the signal. Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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Today the water has dropped considerably but I'm still not crossing that bridge. This is the same spot as last night's views.
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Another remote rural station? D MacMillan seems to have been more taken with the level crossing and the pastoral route of the line, we don't see much of the neat wooden buildings. Rodding suggests a siding or goods yard behind the camera. Can anyone identify the spot, please?
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LBSC No 13 Pimlico, de-named and renumbered, basks at
#whatstation
793, which sure ain't Pimlico. To the left an empty water tank; ahead the terminus building, a long terrace of houses and a distant tall chimney. Despite these it has a rural feel. Can anyone identify it, please?
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Just look at this! Miss H has helped to edit this most superior architectural tome, fresh from the printers. It is a joy to behold. It has a jacket, 642 pages, 300+ pictures and a staggering price. She has lavished months of her spare time on it and is rightly proud of it.
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#whatstation
358 is very basic, single line, no signalling visible, tiny wooden goods shed, simple passenger building. Note the knapped flint panels, pretty crested ridge tiles (rather the worse for wear) and the battens (why?). Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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A
#notwhatstation
on a long gone railway. Double track, not just a passing place, goods shed, platform box, water tower, nice little town with hill country beyond. A railtour view from the other direction was a
#whatstation
in 2019.
Solution at teatime, whenever that may be.
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#whatstation
755 is in an upland area with scattered dwellings, but might be edge of town. Three platforms plus sidings. 44789 had allocations to Inverness, then GSWR territory. Simple stone building, footbridge, handcarts, parcels. Can anyone identify this place for us, please?
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#whatstation
797 stands on a leafy hillside; there is a small wooden building, a four coach train (drawn by a pannier tank?), a footbridge. Another train is due, the lady in the cloche hat is ill-advised to lean out of the window. Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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A languid vibe at
#whatstation
804. Those broad leafy platforms, the expansive canopies, the carefully enclosed footbridge. There are at least three platforms here, a signal box beyond the station and a road bridge. Can anyone name this sunny but totally deserted station, please?
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51
The site of
#whatstation
364 has been portioned up, the skeletal remains of the platform building are engulfed by greenery. Shallow cutting, road overbridge, charming brackets support the canopy. May be in the London area despite its rural air, can anyone identify it, please?
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50
Station with a chunk of platform attached to the level crossing gate. It was a
#whatstation
, surely. Tolly Cobbold pub so East Anglia, probably Suffolk.
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Sadly no Drummond Jumbo to post for
#whatstation
747. Instead a receding tail lamp in a closed station, the RIB still in place but one of the platforms heaped with rubble. Is that 3rd rail or a check rail? Shallow cutting, road overbridge, can anyone identify this spot, please?
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Another day, another dmu, another signal box. The train at
#whatstation
818 has a clue on the destination blind; the box should give us a clue to the company. The arched lattice footbridge is being given a post-steam era coat of paint. Can anyone say where this is, please?
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#whatstation
525 looks a lot like Helensburgh, it even has a church in the right place. But we've stared hard at it and it's not. The platforms are wrong, and the main road is missing. Lovely photo though - look at all those engines! Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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Here's a super photo, a stylish moody image with a lone figure. I nearly posted it as a
#whatstation
last month but the reverse was interesting too and when I scanned it the faintly scrawled name was suddenly legible. Can anyone say where it is? I'll post the other side shortly.
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An air of dereliction pervades
#whatstation
733, but the line is still in use. The open shed, left, and building with extractors, right, suggest a former timber yard but are a distance apart. Note the skeletal footbridge, right. Can anyone locate this interesting spot, please?
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50
This photo of a dismal morning at
#whatstation
613 is all about signalling: huge box, magnificent gantries. And buzzing with activity. At least four locos to be seen and railwaymen going about their business. To the right, shed, railway works? Can anyone tell us where, please?
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#whatstation
798 house was way over budget so the waiting room was knocked up from an old signal box. The house is brick with stone dressings, a lovely stone slate roof and fine detail in the older woodwork. Line seems to be still open. Does anyone know where this is, please?
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#whatstation
759 has smart new concrete sleepers on the left, old wooden ones and an approaching train on the right. One passenger and his bike awaits. Goods yard and a row of new detached houses one side, open countryside on the other. Can anyone tell us where this is, please?
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Here's another of Robert's
#IlfordSporti
snaps, and another railbus. It is Park Royal railbus M79972 emitting a cloud of exhaust at Inverness on 11 June 1964. Dented; I wonder how that happened.
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49
The extent railway property opposite
#whatstation
378 is ill-defined: staggered platform, level crossing, goods yard entrance, hotel all hugger-mugger. A white line stops passengers falling into the no-mans-land, right, is it a bay platform? Can anyone name this place, please?
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