| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 00:23, 16th September 2025 |     |
3: From the flora and fauna, it would suggest the New Forest.
I thought members might be correctly sway-ed in that direction.
Knowing a little about horses, I discounted Exmoor ponies, then Dartmoor ponies, before wondering whether it was possibly an image from the New Forest.
Rather in the spirit of 'Who wants to be a millionaire?', I should then have 'phoned a friend' - my sister, an accomplished equestrienne.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:12, 15th September 2025 | |
Well done, bradshaw!
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 22:02, 15th September 2025 | |
Lydney? 5541, the number of the loco, is resident there
Yes - served by trains operated by Transport for Wales, Cross Country and Forest of Dean Railway Limited. During engineering works, Great Western Railway also pass through.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by bradshaw at 21:38, 15th September 2025 | |
Lydney? 5541, the number of the loco, is resident there
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 20:38, 15th September 2025 | |
It's one that I expected to stick - even though I went there on a Freedom of Severn and Solent.
Well, that's a fairly wide area, from which the rest of us can only guess.
I could give further clues such as it's a town that's served by three different train operators. But you may feel mislead by that hint in due course.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 20:20, 15th September 2025 | |
It's one that I expected to stick - even though I went there on a Freedom of Severn and Solent.
Well, that's a fairly wide area, from which the rest of us can only guess.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Timmer at 20:02, 15th September 2025 | |
12. I have no idea. I didn't do so well on part 1 of your quiz, grahame. 
That’s because none of them are Taunton Chris 
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 19:55, 15th September 2025 | |
12. I have no idea. I didn't do so well on part 1 of your quiz, grahame.
It's one that I expected to stick - even though I went there on a Freedom of Severn and Solent.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:49, 15th September 2025 | |
12. I have no idea. I didn't do so well on part 1 of your quiz, grahame.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 19:28, 15th September 2025 | |
1. St Ives (Cornwall) - GBM
2. Hayling Island - Oxonhutch
3. Sway - Oxonhutch
4. Exmouth - eightonedee
5. Dorchester - Timmer
6. Netley - CyclingSid
7. Paddington - stuving
8. Totnes - AMLAG
9. Corfe Castle - Bradshaw
10. Hamble - TonyN
11. Bath - PhilWakely
12. Not yet identified
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by bradshaw at 14:47, 15th September 2025 | |
9 The little museum in Corfe Castle’s West Street
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 12:53, 15th September 2025 | |
3: From the flora and fauna, it would suggest the New Forest.
I thought members might be correctly sway-ed in that direction.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Oxonhutch at 12:51, 15th September 2025 | |
3: From the flora and fauna, it would suggest the New Forest.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by CyclingSid at 11:56, 15th September 2025 | |
6. Victoria Park, Netley
Country park on the site of the former Queen Victoria Hospital
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 09:33, 15th September 2025 | |
Guess
9. Dorset County Museum in Dorchester
9. Dorset County Museum in Dorchester
No - and my goodness there might be lots of places where these translators can be found! I had probably better give the game away / wider clue by showing you this particular example in context
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by ellendune at 08:44, 15th September 2025 | |
Guess
9. Dorset County Museum in Dorchester
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 08:02, 15th September 2025 | |
Eight out of twelve already correctly identified ...
1. St Ives (Cornwall) - GBM
2. Hayling Island - Oxonhutch
4. Exmoouth - eightonedee
5. Dorchester - Timmer
7. Paddington - stuving
8. Totnes - AMLAG
10. Hamble - TonyN
11. Bath - PhilWakely
Only ones remaining are numbered multiples of three
3.
6.
9.
12.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by TonyN at 21:36, 14th September 2025 | |
10. Hamble-Le-Rice
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by PhilWakely at 20:51, 14th September 2025 | |
11. Halfpenny Bridge, Bath
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by RobT at 19:47, 14th September 2025 | |
2. Hayling Light Railway, Hayling Island
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by eightonedee at 17:29, 14th September 2025 | |
4 - The Strand, Exmouth
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by AMLAG at 16:46, 14th September 2025 | |
8 = Totnes, quay on River Dart
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 15:57, 14th September 2025 | |
9) is on seafront, adjacent to Harbour at West Bay
Oh ... perhaps those were mass produced. My picture came from somewhere else. Right county
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by GBM at 15:55, 14th September 2025 | |
1. St Ives (Cornwall).
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by John D at 15:45, 14th September 2025 | |
9) is on seafront, adjacent to Harbour at West Bay
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Oxonhutch at 14:27, 14th September 2025 | |
2: Hayling Island Railway. Eastern terminus.
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by Timmer at 13:31, 14th September 2025 | |
5 Dorchester
| Re: On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by stuving at 12:45, 14th September 2025 | |
7. looks like bus stop S at Bishops Bridge Road / Little Venice, where the number 18 bus from Euston stops.
| On the rails to off the rails - part 1 Posted by grahame at 12:15, 14th September 2025 | |
The first dozen - all my pictures, and all taken by train within the south west quadrant of Great Britain, mostly this year and mostly by on trips by train. We have a huge variety of places to see in the UK - so many that a lot of these, though close to rail stations, may not be familiar.
For today - 14th September 2025 - one each please in this set of a dozen. I will be posting a second set - a further dozen - and you're welcome to identify one in there too.
1. St Ives (Cornwall) - GBM
2. Hayling Island - Oxonhutch
3. Sway - Oxonhutch
4. Exmouth - eightonedee
5. Dorchester - Timmer
6. Netley - CyclingSid
7. Paddington - stuving
8. Totnes - AMLAG
9. Corfe Castle - Bradshaw
10. Hamble - TonyN
11. Bath - PhilWakely
12.
