MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
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Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
The tracks seem to merge down to one to go under the bridge. If that's the case then it's quite a small branch line I would have thought. Not that I have any specialist railway knowledge.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I never learned to drive, so that option is wrong!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Me neither but i'm thinking single track branch line that doubles up for a short section... and i'm hoping it'll stand out a mile on a map like this.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Socialists would eventually find that map very useful, but Tories wouldn't!
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
On closer inspection... Downtrodden socialists!
@ColinJ A local one - Common Lane, Kenilworth.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.355...4!1s3iYzGgjSEGQF7_ezPqfNHQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I thought it was the Stoneleigh Road bridge on first sight. For those that care Kenilworth got a station again a few years ago, they promptly put in a bus replacement service due to staff shortages due to Covid - it reopens soon.
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.355...4!1s3iYzGgjSEGQF7_ezPqfNHQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I thought it was the Stoneleigh Road bridge on first sight. For those that care Kenilworth got a station again a few years ago, they promptly put in a bus replacement service due to staff shortages due to Covid - it reopens soon.
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Being a son of North Lancs I immediately assumed it would be Great Eccleston. But the "Land of the Rising Sun" clue had me stumped (who knew there was a Japanese Garden in Preston?)
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
It was the last version of the old 1-inch OS series that showed the difference most clearly, as here:
Taken from a 1960 map. Quite apart from the railway lines themselves, I think we've lost something quite valuable. In earlier editions the difference between single and multiple track wasn't quite so clear to my eyes, but you do get used to it. This is from 1946, when Tavistock was served by both the Southern Railway and the Great Western:
Had I looked properly at @ColinJ's picture before hunting out my old maps I would probably have won the race.
On early 1:50,000 maps the line from Leamington to Coventry was shown as a mineral line, so when my train ran along it on one of my early trips to Warwick University I was more than a little surprised.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Here's what the bridge in question looks like on a modern OS map
And on this 1842 map https://maps.nls.uk/view/101585212 which is much clearer
And on this 1842 map https://maps.nls.uk/view/101585212 which is much clearer
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
You were in Scotland then?
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
So the 1:25,000 does still differentiate between single and multiple tracks! That's something I hadn't registered, and it's good to know.
Having looked at the aerial view, the double track section in Kenilworth seems to finish roughly at the bottom of the bit you've extracted, so no more than a few hundred yards, but I'd've thought that was enough for OS to show it.
Deliberate misspelling of Tennant. A one-track mind I suppose.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I assumed that it meant it was where the sun rises relative to Great Eccleston so I headed east and soon found what I was looking for.
Ah - I knew that I had mentioned that railway bridge before on the forum...!
When I were a very young lad (still a baby), my father nearly killed me with a steam train... It instantly put me off them!
Thinking about it ... We don't recall experiences from babyhood. I was born down the road from the railway line and we moved when I was very young so I must actually have been 2-3 years old.
I remembered that I have mentioned this experience before on CC...
When I was about 3 years old, my dad did something incredibly stupid - he picked me up and dangled me off a railway bridge when a steam train was thundering by below! It traumatised me ...
I mentioned it to him a couple of years before he died and he was upset to realise that I remembered it. It's not the kind of thing that you tend to forget!
This bridge ...
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Well done. If nobody had got it by the time I got back from the shops, my second musical clue was this...
(I was born next to the Common and have mentioned that on the forum before!)
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Oh yes - your turn, @Milkfloat!
