Guess the Station...

[Broken Viking]

Can ye yay or nay my Cambridge, sil-vous-plait?

 

[IanPooleTrains]

Ely?

Open floor if correct

 

[Lad Brookes]

Neither... and both heading in the wrong direction...

 

[Chapeltom]

Hatfield Peverel?

 

[Lad Brookes]

Nope, still in the wrong county...

 

[Wigan Wanderer]

The station signs are definately Southern Region.

 

[NXEA!]

Wickham Market?

 

[Track Basher]

I have no idea with this one

Pitsea

Thought of the day: Is 300 pages on a thread getting a bit out of had?

Nah, keep it going.

 

[ainsworth74]

Thought of the day: Is 300 pages on a thread getting a bit out of had?

Meh just set your options to display 50 posts per page that way we're only up to 90

 

[Track Basher]

Oh that seems much less excessive.

Hmmmmm but fast approaching 4500 posts doesn't.

 

[Lad Brookes]

The station signs are definately Southern Region.

They are...

So not Pitsea or Wickham Market.

As a further clue- there was a junction a couple of miles East of this station, but the branch that diverged there closed a while ago...

 

[Track Basher]

Templecombe

 

[Lad Brookes]

Getting further... Braintree's been the closest, though the wrong side of the river, given that it's Southern.
The photo was taken a year before electrification.

 

[4SRKT]

Maybe some sort of rule that the station in the picture must look vaguely like it does now within the lifetime of somebody on this forum wouldn't be a bad idea

Dunton Green?

 

[Lad Brookes]

Close...

Ach, that's too much fun!

Oh, go on...

 

[steamybrian]

Farningham Road

 

[Track Basher]

We need Steamy Brian he is good in this area.

Sittingbourne

 

[Lad Brookes]

Farningham Road

...and Sutton-at-Hone

 

[4SRKT]

Bat and Ball

 

[Track Basher]

Canterbury East

 

[Lad Brookes]

Incidentally, does anyone know why there was right-hand running there? Was it to do with the junction with the Gravesend West branch?

 

[steamybrian]

Firstly can you confirm that it is Farningham Road (& Sutton at Hone) which I am 99%sure but maybe 1% unsure
It would appear then to be a Gravesend West branch train hauled by H class 0-4-4T which is taking water. The reason it appears to be working wrong line is possibly that it could be a push pull auto train with the loco at the rear.

 

[Lad Brookes]

Firstly can you confirm that it is Farningham Road (& Sutton at Hone) which I am 99%sure but maybe 1% unsure
It would appear then to be a Gravesend West branch train hauled by H class 0-4-4T which is taking water. The reason it appears to be working wrong line is possibly that it could be a push pull auto train with the loco at the rear.

It is- sorry, thought I had.

Did trains off the branch terminate at Farmingham Rd- with passengers changing for London, or go through to London themselves?

 

[steamybrian]

Prior to electrification some trains ran through to London and few terminated at either Farningham Road or Swanley.

The floor is now open to anyone for the next photo..

 

[4SRKT]

Try this

 

[northernrail]

A station would be nice please

 

[steamybrian]

Machynlleth
(I shall have to recheck the spelling)

 

[Track Basher]

I would normally have a go but I am on my way back from that most unsavory of activities Skip bashing.

 

[4SRKT]

Machynlleth is correct hock:

 

[northernrail]

Wow