Tribansman
Veteran
You mean here?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/43ot6uiifXtcRoPN8
Amazing get that, you should def get the next go!
Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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https://maps.app.goo.gl/43ot6uiifXtcRoPN8
Amazing get that, you should def get the next go!
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
Does this link work?
A72
https://maps.app.goo.gl/8eZF1jtroJzj4EjT7
Edit: This would be stage 5 Whitley Bay to Glasgow, heading south west in that photo.
A72
https://maps.app.goo.gl/8eZF1jtroJzj4EjT7
Edit: This would be stage 5 Whitley Bay to Glasgow, heading south west in that photo.
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classic33
Leg End Member
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Sorry, I was probably a bit hasty in giving up on the mystery picture. I should never underestimate the incredible road finding powers on CC. So apologies again - that was a brilliant bit of spotting.
I'm afraid this may have messed things up on the thread. @Aravis got the last one (the bridge), but donated it to @ColinJ Meanwhile @Mr Celine got my previous, abandoned, one.
So whose go is it? There's only one way to find out ...
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I wouldn't put it quite like that! My reason for nominating @ColinJ was that I'm hoping to see what lies behind the teaser a few pages back.
@Mr Celine clearly has the next turn on merit. I thought @Dogtrousers should have had more confidence in the archive photo. I think they work well, and that was a really good one. But I did wonder whether the railway might have been the one that used to pass through Kielder and could well have disappeared under water long ago.
OP
OP
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Sorry, it was a joke based on the degree of difficulty of some very undistinctive-looking roads posted in the thread. I had just clipped a section out of a photo from a day or two earlier!My reason for nominating @ColinJ was that I'm hoping to see what lies behind the teaser a few pages back.
I wasn't trying to muscle in...
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Name that cat's-eye! Its a whole new thread..Sorry, it was a joke based on the degree of difficulty of some very undistinctive-looking roads posted in the thread. I had just clipped a section out of a photo from a day or two earlier!
I wasn't trying to muscle in...
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
That was Tiddles. It's what he would have wanted.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Nice one Colin. Hook, line and sinker.Sorry, it was a joke based on the degree of difficulty of some very undistinctive-looking roads posted in the thread. I had just clipped a section out of a photo from a day or two earlier!
I wasn't trying to muscle in...
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
If you can hold on until tomorrow, or more likely Sunday, I'll post the next one then.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
Hardly. It's a road I've driven numerous times and one I cycle on occasionally, being part of some longer loops from Celine Towers.
As soon as I saw the viaduct in the background I recognised the location, despite the changes in the tree plantations.
Opened in 1864 by the Caledonian Railway the viaduct is on a curve and has eight skewed ashlar masonry spans. In the days before computers or calculators planning and setting out the individual stones must have been a nightmare. Because of the curve on the bridge the skew increases towards the north bank of the river, so no two stones are likely to be the same.
Here's some photos of mine from 2014.
From the deck, looking up to the A72 running between the two fields, where the TOB photo was taken from -
From river level, looking downstream (east) -
Some fabulously skilled masonry -
At the east end of the viaduct the line went into a tunnel which was closed off after the line shut in the fifties. At the time I took these photos it had been unofficially reopened, but I didn't have a torch with me and due to the curve of the line continuing into the tunnel it is very dark.
It's apparently possible to cycle through it (with lights) and there are plans to surface it and make it part of the Tweed Cycleway, which is a signposted route from Biggar to Berwick.
Apologies for the thread drift, I'll post a mystery road tomorrow.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
OK, after @Dogtrousers blast from the past we're going back to the future here. To do that you'll need the appropriate transport, but the 'i' version and with a slightly modified rear end. When you get here, you can go in two opposite directions.
Name that road!
Name that road!
