Where is this please?

Mickey · Post by **Mickey** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:58 pm

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60129 GUY MANNERING · Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:38 pm

hq1hitchin wrote:
manna wrote:G'Day Gents

I would say the train was on the Down Fast, passing through Ferme Park goods yard, the coaches on the left are probably on,Up Goods, and as there being steam heated, there on there way to KX, ECS.

I would also say the photographer is standing at the bottom of the platform ramp (Down Slow)

manna
That gets my vote, too - we're about to pass through Hornsey Station on the Down Fast line.

Surely shes just passed through Wood Green going North as that looks like Ally Pally in the background.

Andy W · Post by **Andy W** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:07 am

Manna, Micky & others have it spot on - that is definitely Hornsey, taken from the ramp of the down platform. The Ferme Park flyover is deceptive, it lies a little way to the south on the curve, behind the coaches.

Here's a wild guess with the loco. It's in very good nick and looks to have been bulled up in the recent past by Dick Ball and his gang at Top Shed. Are we looking at sometime in 1959, taken after it's "little trip out" in May with a certain W.Hoole?

p.s. small point - it's Peter Townend, not Townsend. Mind you, I never dared called him Peter in the 1970's - he was just "Guv'nor"!

strang steel · Post by **strang steel** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:13 am

1959 would seem to be about right, as the loco has yet to receive the small overhead warning panels, but has the later BR emblem on the tender.

manna · Post by **manna** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:49 am

G'Day Gents

Seeing that the photographer is at the bottom of the platform ramp and is at a very low angle the flyover is obscured by the loco, if it was taken from the platform, you may well have been able to see a bit of the flyover.

manna

Mickey · Post by **Mickey** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:10 am

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kudu · Post by **kudu** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:06 pm

Thanks to manna and others for providing the extra detail.

If we are still to get other suggestions for the location, can contributors please be a little more imaginative? I'll kick off by saying the train is plainly about to traverse Glenfinnan Viaduct.

Kudu

52A · Post by **52A** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:21 pm

Nope, it's on Rannoch Moor.

Blink Bonny · Post by **Blink Bonny** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:52 pm

In that case, I reckon its just left Trawsfynydd on its way to Bala.

giner · Post by **giner** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:30 pm

Sounds like this thread is turning into another Mornington Crescent.

jwealleans · Post by **jwealleans** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:31 pm

Half way across the old Tay Bridge.

Mickey · Post by **Mickey** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:57 pm

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Boris · Post by **Boris** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:46 pm

Has anyone noticed the differing chairs on the short section of rail.

Any idea what and why

Mickey · Post by **Mickey** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:02 pm

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Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:34 pm

Boris wrote:Has anyone noticed the differing chairs on the short section of rail.

Any idea what and why

If you mean the slightly different shade of grey on the line to the right.
I think that it looks like a short length relay and top dress of ballast.
Just newer chairs and new ballast for about a 30ft length.

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