d600 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Hi i picked up this old postcard the seller didnt know where the location was,just wondering if anyone can put a name to the location. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 Thames valley area ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerces Fobe2 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I reckon Pangbourne - Goring area XF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lochty no more Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 The lineside fencing is L & NWR if that helps Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d600 Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Thames valley area ? Hi i thought the thames valley area,could be the pangbourne area thanxs for the info. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Although the lie of the land looks Thames Valley, I can't make it match any of the locations between Didcot-Reading using Google maps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 The lineside fencing is L & NWR if that helps If LNW I would suggest possibly former loops just north of Weedon with the canal on the left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 The lineside fencing is not GWR (already noted above as LNW of course) and the topography, especially the relative positions and heights of railway and river do not match anywhere between Reading and Didcot. The track spacing looks a bit odd suggesting to me that the line on the left is an 'additional' one added to an earlier formation - again this doesn't match the way quadrupling was done between Reading and Didcot where a second pair of running lines were added throughout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 ...The track spacing looks a bit odd... As if the centre lines go through one arch of the bridge and the left-most line goes through an arch added later? Or as if it's spreading out for an island platform between the two left-most lines behind the camera? Summing up what we've got so far: 4-track line gentle countryside quite a wide river (don't think it can be a canal) slightly odd track spacing LNW style fencing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Is it up Shugborough/ Colwich way..? Or Great Haywood even, making that a canal - the Trent and Mersey? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 Is it up Shugborough/ Colwich way..? Or Great Haywood even, making that a canal - the Trent and Mersey? I did wonder about Great Bridgeford or somewhere in that vicinity but I can't fit it on Googlemaps and there was a station at Great Bridgeford in, I think, that position. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 Track spacing is not right for Great Bridgeford. That bridge has two distinct pairs with a gap in the middle. Also the water looks too wide. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'm struggling to see much water at all at Gt Bridgeford. I'm convinced it's the Trent Valley line a couple of miles east, south of Hixon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I reckon the water is wider than the T&M canal would be. Can't see any suitable bridges near Hixon. To the OP: is there anything at all on the back of the postcard? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Rugeley, perhaps? The power station would be just to the left nowadays. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'm struggling to see much water at all at Gt Bridgeford. I'm convinced it's the Trent Valley line a couple of miles east, south of Hixon. The River Sow is just by the line at Great Bridgeford, but is nowhere near that wide. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Aye, I was on Google Earth, natch! The Trent and Mersey, however, IS a wide waterway in that vicinity, and it's pretty compelling - the problem is so much vegetation colonization has taken place in the intervening century (?) that it's hard to judge then & now very easily. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d600 Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 I reckon the water is wider than the T&M canal would be. Can't see any suitable bridges near Hixon. To the OP: is there anything at all on the back of the postcard? Hi the post card dosent have anythink on the back lots of suggestions coming in im lost lol thanxs for all the posts. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d600 Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Hi ive had a look at the card with a magnify glass it looks like 3 tracks and the one furthest on the right looks like a wall it also looks like the 2nd and 3rd track runs into a set of points just on the bend the track looks funny tho the rails seem higher than standered to me. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 I thought it looked like three tracks rather than four. Still, nothing that I can place the photo by. One really wonders why such a dull photograph would be published as a postcard. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Hi ive had a look at the card with a magnify glass it looks like 3 tracks and the one furthest on the right looks like a wall it also looks like the 2nd and 3rd track runs into a set of points just on the bend the track looks funny tho the rails seem higher than standered to me. cheers I don't think it's a wall, as there's a lighter grey to its right, suggesting ballast, as well as it being at the bottom of what seems to be a shallow cutting. Any boundary would normally be at the top of a cutting or the bottom of an embankment- apart from anything else, it allowed the railway to manage their condition. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d600 Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 I thought it looked like three tracks rather than four. Still, nothing that I can place the photo by. One really wonders why such a dull photograph would be published as a postcard. Hi i dont think the postcard was published,in the 30's/40's you could buy postcard paper and have your photos put on to it,this is a real photo card and someone i know who collects postcards reckons its from the 40's. cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2012 The watercourse doesnt seem to have towpath, so possibly not a canal, Pete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 Low blue brick walls were a common feature at the bottom of cuttings on LNW lines that had been widened or where loops had been added. That probably leaves us looking for a 2-track LNW line with a loop or slow line starting by a bend in a river just before a road bridge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertiedog Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Rugeley, perhaps? The power station would be just to the left nowadays. Assuming a look north, it could indeed match the LNWR main line at Rugeley. Possiby church tower matches town. The shot is repeated a bit clearer, purely to show it bettter after photoshop, I expect out of any copyright, and with respect to the original poster. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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