One Square

[Ramrig]

Next.

 

 

Clue: close to the birth place of a bassist/singer of a well known local (to the square) British rock group, who died in 2009. 

[Ramblin Rich]

Toller Fratrum:

 

Got that from the date (stations closed in 1975). Now to make sense of the other clues...

 

Well - 

 

There was a station in the next square to the west; the building was dismantled & rebuilt on a preserved lin in the next county

 

Toller station building ended up rebuilt at Totnes Riverside (Littlehempston) on the South Devon railway

 

....ending at an inlet of the sea in a cardinal direction

 

Cardinal direction =West, inlet of sea = Bay

[martin_wynne]

Coseley:

 

Edited July 2, 2013 by martin_wynne

[Ramblin Rich]

Found Ramrig's square now - between Bilston & Cosely in the West Midlands

Argh - Martin just beat me to it - I shouldn't have answered his query!

[martin_wynne]

Next up:

 

 

Google Streetview:

 

 

Further north this cycle track on a former trackbed has to share it with a railway.

[Ramrig]

Llanllyfni in North Wales 

 

 

Next will follow after some sleep and work!!!!

[Ramrig]

Found one I had in reserve

 

 

A clue to follow later if required

[Ramrig]

First Clue: The nearby market town was the site of the lines raiiway workshops and headquarters.

[martin_wynne]

Oswestry:

 

 

 

 

Edited July 5, 2013 by martin_wynne

[martin_wynne]

Next:

 

 

Where 0 Gauge modellers go west.

 

 

 

[martin_wynne]

Another clue?

 

The road from London to Ireland comes this way, hence the name.

[Ramrig]

Telford

[Ramrig]

The last one

 

 

Next.

 

 

Clue to follow later

[Ramblin Rich]

Next:

 

one_square_115.png

 

Where 0 Gauge modellers go west.

Ooh, you're slipping, Martin - I posted the same square in April! It's starting to get difficult to keep track of squares now...

[pH]

And I posted the current one over 3 years ago. (I'm trying to stay out of this game. I waste enough time on the computer as it is!)

[Ramrig]

And I posted the current one over 3 years ago. (I'm trying to stay out of this game. I waste enough time on the computer as it is!)

 

At approaching 1500 posts its difficult to keep track (no pun intended) of all the squares, and as said above its getting more difficult to find obscure/unused squares. Time for a new game perhaps?

[pH]

At approaching 1500 posts its difficult to keep track (no pun intended) of all the squares.

 

You can search the topic for the nearest town/village/city district/station to your intended square before you post, and see if it turns up as having been used before. That doesn't always work, but certainly cuts down the use of duplicate squares.

[Ramrig]

OK Clue Time:

 

The current stock on the line is only 15 years younger than the stock it replaced.

 

First two words of the first line of the "Wombling Song"

[Shadow]

Brading on the Isle Of Wight

 

 

 

Next one :-

 

 

 

 

Clue,  Murder the musical Oscar!

Edited July 9, 2013 by Shadow

[martin_wynne]

Time for a new game perhaps?

 

Changing to the old 1" maps would make an interesting new game -- see: http://www.npemap.org.uk

 

The difficulty is that it is very difficult to find squares without visible names, road numbers, etc. Perhaps the rules could allow such items to be blanked out? And perhaps a larger area than one square would make for some interesting posts. Where is this, for example?

 

 

Martin.

[Shadow]

Clue :- North the border!

 

and a picture too... this is the next station to the west of the square, by about 7kms

 

Edited July 12, 2013 by Shadow

[figworthy]

Changing to the old 1" maps would make an interesting new game -- see: http://www.npemap.org.uk

 

The difficulty is that it is very difficult to find squares without visible names, road numbers, etc. Perhaps the rules could allow such items to be blanked out? And perhaps a larger area than one square would make for some interesting posts. Where is this, for example?

 

npe1.png

 

Martin.

 

I like the idea, and the answer is Barnsley.  I would put up another challenge, but I'm not sure where I can get hold of copyright free bits of Seventh Series.

 

 

Adrian

[martin_wynne]

I would put up another challenge, but I'm not sure where I can get hold of copyright free bits of Seventh Series.

 

Hi Adrian,

 

They are all here: http://www.npemap.org.uk

 

They are OS copyright-free because they are all over 50 years old (pre 1963).

 

And the scans can be used: "You can do what you like with the tiles as long as you're not making any money from them." See: http://www.npemap.org.uk/tileLicence.html

 

See also this site on which you can flip to and fro between these old maps, current OS maps, and aerial photos, of the same location: http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

 

regards,

 

Martin.

[figworthy]

Hi Adrian,

 

They are all here: http://www.npemap.org.uk

 

They are OS copyright-free because they are all over 50 years old (pre 1963).

 

And the scans can be used: "You can do what you like with the tiles as long as you're not making any money from them." See: http://www.npemap.org.uk/tileLicence.html

 

See also this site on which you can flip to and fro between these old maps, current OS maps, and aerial photos, of the same location: http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

 

regards,

 

Martin.

 

Ah, excellent, my reading of the FAQ was that it couldn't be used.

 

Try this one :

 

 

The map is 1947, the colliery shown at the top (as far as I remember) closed in 1926.

 

 

Adrian

[Ramblin Rich]

Hi Adrian,

 

They are all here: http://www.npemap.org.uk

 

They are OS copyright-free because they are all over 50 years old (pre 1963).

 

And the scans can be used: "You can do what you like with the tiles as long as you're not making any money from them." See: http://www.npemap.org.uk/tileLicence.html

 

See also this site on which you can flip to and fro between these old maps, current OS maps, and aerial photos, of the same location: http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

 

regards,

 

Martin.

 

Another great site for old vs modern comparison is this one http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/

It has a 'fader' control allowing mixing between modern & old maps, and a choice of modern mapping (OS, Google, Bing)

I find myself intently looking where old routes went & what the modern uses (if any) routes now have

 

EDIT - England is only covered by 1945-47 mapping at present, though...

Edited July 15, 2013 by Ramblin Rich