| 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by grahame at 05:58, 19th December 2025 |     |
Places have changed so much over the years - can you identify where these are. For some, I have a rough age/year too
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All sources acknowledged and will be revealed at the end of the quiz.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by PrestburyRoad at 06:18, 19th December 2025 | |
3. Gloucester Eastgate station from the southwest with Barton Street level crossing and the distinctive signal box in the foreground, circa 1970. Nothing remains of these railway structures, and the route of the line at this point is now a road.
I remember the station from when my train to Cheltenham stopped there in 1973.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by John D at 07:24, 19th December 2025 | |
10 is Eastleigh, and as photo is during laying of conductor rail, must be about mid 1966.
Home and distant banner repeaters on the footbridge too
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by brooklea at 07:47, 19th December 2025 | |
1. Fort William
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by Oxonhutch at 08:18, 19th December 2025 | |
4: Garsdale - or Hawes Junction as it was.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by Mark A at 08:51, 19th December 2025 | |
7 had to be Birmingham New Street.
Mark
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by RobT at 10:02, 19th December 2025 | |
5. Carmarthen
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by bradshaw at 10:55, 19th December 2025 | |
8 Templecombe, around 1964 when 2218 was allocated to Templecombe
https://www.brdatabase.info/locoqry.php?action=locodata&type=S&id=2218&loco=2218
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by stuving at 11:16, 19th December 2025 | |
6. Ickenham. I'll admit I found the exact picture online, but I did do it by working out the location from clues and then trying it - first guess, honest!
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by Oxonhutch at 20:22, 19th December 2025 | |
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by grahame at 12:23, 20th December 2025 | |
All these correst - two outstanding
1. Fort William - brooklea
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3. Gloucester Eastgate - Prestbury Road
4. Garsdale - Oxonhutch
5. Carmarthen - RobT
6. Ickenham - stuving
7. Birmingham New Street - Mark A
8. Templecombe Upper - bradshaw
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10. Eastleigh - John D
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| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by Western Pathfinder at 13:03, 20th December 2025 | |
No.9 Carnforth ?..
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 14:51, 20th December 2025 | |
2. Has to be so obscure that -
a) Graham would know it; and
b) it's in Wiltshire.
Ludgershall Station on the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway in Wiltshire.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by eightonedee at 15:24, 20th December 2025 | |
9 cannot surely be Carnforth! So far all I have been able to make out is that the locomotive on the right is an Adams LSWR class 135 4-4-0! So some where on the LSWR system, but where I can't make out. It looks like a terminus, and the only other visual clue is that church tower in the background. Does that help anyone solve it?
Any points for identifying the loco, making the picture likely to be between the 1880s and 1920?
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by grahame at 16:01, 20th December 2025 | |
9 cannot surely be Carnforth! So far all I have been able to make out is that the locomotive on the right is an Adams LSWR class 135 4-4-0! So some where on the LSWR system, but where I can't make out. It looks like a terminus, and the only other visual clue is that church tower in the background. Does that help anyone solve it?
Any points for identifying the loco, making the picture likely to be between the 1880s and 1920?
Any points for identifying the loco, making the picture likely to be between the 1880s and 1920?
It's not Carnforth but unless I have misread the source, it's not on the LSWR system either. It is a terminus though not one I have visited for many years and when it was very different to shown in this picture.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by TonyN at 16:51, 20th December 2025 | |
The engine looks like a Highland Railway Loch class 4-4-0 but what looks like a large church tower in the left background is unusual for Scotland.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by TonyN at 17:11, 20th December 2025 | |
I think its Aberdeen Waterloo.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by Oxonhutch at 18:07, 20th December 2025 | |
Very few companies used somersault signals like these. A big user was the GNR along with MGNR and a selection from the Welsh valleys.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by TonyN at 23:41, 20th December 2025 | |
How about Cromer
Loco Looks to be a midland and Great Northern A Class
https://uk-rail.groups.io/g/main/topic/m_gn_class_a_rebuild_4_4_0/15430126
The Midland & Great Northern (M&GN) Class A Rebuild locomotives started off as a series of 4-4-0s built by Beyer, Peacock & Co. between 1882 and 1888. The first batch of four were built for the Lynn & Fakenham Railway, and the remaining eleven were built for its successor, the Eastern & Midlands Railway. As initially built, all fifteen locomotives closely resembled the London South Western Railway Adams 6ft 7in 4-4-0s that Beyer, Peacock built in 1880.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by Oxonhutch at 09:31, 21st December 2025 | |
Certainly fits with a period map (courtesy NLS) and it is very different today.
| Re: 19th Advent Quiz - Old Pictures - where are they? Posted by grahame at 09:39, 21st December 2025 | |
Yes, it IS Cromer [Beach] - formerly the Midland and Great Northern terminal for that seaside town, and it became the only station for that town when the Great Eastern station was closed and their service from Norwich diverted in. One of very, very few M&GN survivors. These days, it shares with Battersby and Bere Alston being a reversal point on a branch line, trains carrying on to a new Sheringham stationlet as in that town the service was cut back to allow level crossing closure at that time.
