eastwestdivide Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Yes, both my pics are looking west, and jonny777's is looking east. Plus a supporting cast of: the railings on the down side, the gravel inset behind the two differently-coloured strips of tarmac on the up platform, and the space between the tracks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) You will have to have patience with me. My logic circuits on orientation of photos are not the best connected. However, here are some more unknowns. 1 2 3 4 5 Edited December 8, 2015 by jonny777 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) Think that the last one may be Pitlochry. Edit :- Here's a link to some photo's i've posted before LINK Edited December 7, 2015 by Shadow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) The lorry in the first photo looks like it has the name J A Hutchinson. A transport company with that name were based in the Peterborough area. Stamford East looks to be a similar design. (not the same though) Possibly Wansford? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.5688695,-0.3892697,3a,48.8y,205.26h,83.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAnr0wLFye-ny63Hct-gagw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 Edited December 7, 2015 by Shadow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Thanks Shadow. I should have recognised that one. It is Wansford. I think the sudden change from Scotland has thrown me. The third one shouts Lincolnshire between Boston and Lincoln to me, but I can't find anything to fit the bill - yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Think that the last one may be Pitlochry. Edit :- Here's a link to some photo's i've posted before LINK I think you are spot on there. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Is the second from bottom Hellifield? Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted December 7, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2015 The third one may be Spalding Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Agree with Spalding https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.7885145,-0.1567923,3a,75y,332.67h,76.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEaV4R3PU0jVCGEXIgbuwMA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 5BarVT Posted December 7, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2015 Is the second from bottom Hellifield? Jim Hellifield was my first thought too, but there is an Up Loop that i would have expected to be visible between the platform and the sidings. Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Second from bottom - in the formation, there's an LNER buffet? Also the coaches appear to have odd labels in the windows. Does that give us any clues? Enthusiast excursion, judging by the number of people towards the end of the platforms? For the unidentified ones, can you read any number plates off the vehicles on the originals? Might give us a clue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) Thanks to everyone for their input. I am most grateful. Here are some more. They used to be quite organised geographically, but now they seem to be all over the UK. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Edited December 8, 2015 by jonny777 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted December 8, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) Hellifield was my first thought too, but there is an Up Loop that i would have expected to be visible between the platform and the sidings. Paul. A former Butlins station? Long platforms and plenty of storage sidings Edited December 8, 2015 by keefer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) Second from bottom - in the formation, there's an LNER buffet? Also the coaches appear to have odd labels in the windows. Does that give us any clues? Enthusiast excursion, judging by the number of people towards the end of the platforms? For the unidentified ones, can you read any number plates off the vehicles on the originals? Might give us a clue. When I enlarged it, two WR lower-quadrant signals were clearly visible. A home signal, in the 'Off' position just in front of the train, and the rear of an un-identified one to its right. I wonder if it could be the pre-bypass Pontypool Road station? The view of the station on Google Earth does suggest Pontypool Road and New Inn, looking towards Abergavenny- the bay has been backfilled, but its outline is visible:- https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Pontypool+%26+New+Inn/@51.6972606,-3.0153632,595m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x4871dc2625eea907:0x18ec0e625b5d1c0b!6m1!1e1?hl=en As to what an excursion was doing there? A pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Pontypool Front Row, a seeming fixture in the Welsh First XV of the mid 1970s, perhaps? Edited December 8, 2015 by Fat Controller Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 In post 287, any chance of editing in some reference numbers so we can refer to them easily? Ta. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) That last photo, with the tank wagons to the right, and the over-complicated pointwork, looks WR- Cranmore, perhaps? This link to a Google Earth view, certainly bears some similarities, especially with the arrangement of trailing crossover incorporating a single slip, leading into a diamond crossing:- https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cranmore,+Shepton+Mallet,+Somerset+BA4/@51.1848689,-2.4799958,304m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x48722f83c8462b43:0x77045cbf863e83b!6m1!1e1?hl=en Edited December 8, 2015 by Fat Controller Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 In post 287, any chance of editing in some reference numbers so we can refer to them easily? Ta. Yes, sorry about that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Post 287 - Think image 1 is actually Nairn this time. Google streetview suggests a bit of restoration on a chimney, and vegetation obscuring the dormer-windowed house in the distance (although it's still there) Image 3 is at Alloa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
avonside1563 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Thanks to everyone for their input. I am most grateful. Here are some more. They used to be quite organised geographically, but now they seem to be all over the UK. Scan-151128-0002.jpg 6 Scan-151128-0003.jpg 7 Scan-151128-0005.jpg 8 Scan-151129-0003.jpg 9 Scan-151129-0007.jpg 10 Scan-151202-0002.jpg 11 Scan-151202-0003.jpg 12 Scan-151204-0001.jpg 13 Scan-151204-0002.jpg 14 14 is Cranmore looking west from the station with the oil tank sidings off to the right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 Brilliant stuff Jamie. Nairn certainly fits with this - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1276852 Thanks also for the Cranmore i.d. Avonside. This photographer certainly moved around a bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 8, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2015 When I enlarged it, two WR lower-quadrant signals were clearly visible. A home signal, in the 'Off' position just in front of the train, and the rear of an un-identified one to its right. I wonder if it could be the pre-bypass Pontypool Road station? The view of the station on Google Earth does suggest Pontypool Road and New Inn, looking towards Abergavenny- the bay has been backfilled, but its outline is visible:- https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Pontypool+%26+New+Inn/@51.6972606,-3.0153632,595m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x4871dc2625eea907:0x18ec0e625b5d1c0b!6m1!1e1?hl=en As to what an excursion was doing there? A pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Pontypool Front Row, a seeming fixture in the Welsh First XV of the mid 1970s, perhaps? I am reasonably sure that it is Pontypool Road looking northwards. No.14 is definitely Cranmore and the scene of a rather spectacular shunting derailment where a loaded tank car passing through the clipped and spiked single slip took to the air and went the wrong way in a direction the slip didn't even offer when the slip had been working. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) I think 11 is the now disused island platform at Barnstaple (Junction as it was then known), cheers Edited December 8, 2015 by Rivercider 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 No 12 is Keith Junction, photograph here http://www.gnsra.org.uk/gnsra_gallery_stations_152.htm taken looking the other way. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 9, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2015 I think No.7 might be Orpington. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I think No.7 might be Orpington. Is that a 4-COR? If so, might be the "Nelson to Waterloo" farewell railtour, shown as stopping there in 1972 - http://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/70s/721001se.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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