RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 2, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted July 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2013 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 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted July 2, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 (edited) Coseley: Edited July 2, 2013 by martin_wynne Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted July 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 2, 2013 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! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted July 2, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 2, 2013 Next up: Google Streetview: Further north this cycle track on a former trackbed has to share it with a railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2013 Llanllyfni in North Wales Next will follow after some sleep and work!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 3, 2013 Found one I had in reserve A clue to follow later if required Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 5, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2013 First Clue: The nearby market town was the site of the lines raiiway workshops and headquarters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted July 5, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2013 (edited) Oswestry: Edited July 5, 2013 by martin_wynne 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted July 5, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 5, 2013 Next: Where 0 Gauge modellers go west. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted July 8, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2013 Another clue? The road from London to Ireland comes this way, hence the name. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 8, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2013 Telford 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 8, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2013 The last one Next. Clue to follow later Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted July 8, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 8, 2013 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... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 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!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 8, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2013 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted July 9, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2013 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" 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 (edited) Brading on the Isle Of Wight Next one :- Clue, Murder the musical Oscar! Edited July 9, 2013 by Shadow 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted July 9, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2013 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. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 (edited) 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted July 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2013 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 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium martin_wynne Posted July 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 12, 2013 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium figworthy Posted July 13, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 13, 2013 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted July 15, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 15, 2013 (edited) 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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