Guess the Station...

[Ivo]

Stoke perhaps?
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Oh, just a quick pointer, I have someone coming over for a house viewing in 15 minutes, so I'm going to disappear for a little while when they arrive. And then I have an early night to prepare for my 570mi Great Escape tomorrow.
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...OK? No-one has turned up for this viewing?

 

[atomicdanny]

Coventry?

 

[TomJ93]

Bingo!

 

[atomicdanny]

Bingo!

Thanks , and here is the next picture (not the best though I admit)

 

[Track Basher]

Aber.

 

[TomJ93]

Definitely Aber.

 

[atomicdanny]

Aber.

Yep, your go (I think I've got to find a more difficult picture! )

 

[Track Basher]

Try this one

 

[4SRKT]

Watford Jn?

 

[Track Basher]

Not Watford

 

[Mvann]

Northampton

 

[Track Basher]

Not Northampton either

 

[12CSVT]

Nuneaton ?

 

[4SRKT]

Wigan NW?

 

[Track Basher]

Nor Nuneaton or Wigan

This seems to have got you a little stumped.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The far end of the platform seems to curve to the left.

It's two track.

The station building is relatively modern, so would have been re-worked just before the 85s went.

Runcorn?

 

[159jim]

Rugby?

 

[Track Basher]

The far end of the platform seems to curve to the left.

Yes

It's two track.

Yes

The station building is relatively modern, so would have been re-worked just before the 85s went.

Yes

Runcorn?

Sadly no

and not Rugby

 

[12CSVT]

Shoeburyness ('Roarer Requiem' railtour) ?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Well.... I could argue that's 75% right; pity it's the vital bit that I missed the target on.

Second guess.... Macclesfield?

 

[Track Basher]

It was not the Roarer Requiem and it is not Shoeburyness

Arrived in Shoeburyness behind 37888 not the roarer, attached at Willesden Jn as the power was off on the North London Line. Correction it was 37892 (37888 worked the tour earlier in the day)

I was there!
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Not Macclesfield

 

[12CSVT]

Altrincham ? - just trying to think of the more unusual places 85s have worked passenger trains

 

[4SRKT]

There's something naggingly familiar about that glass structure to the left of the loco, but I just can't place it.

 

[Ivo]

No way is that SRY; it's more run down than that! It does bare a startling resemblance to nearby Southend Central though.

Floor's open if correct; I'm going to bed. EDIT: Done one anyway...

 

[Track Basher]

An 85 did work the Atrincham before conversion to tram. I was on that one as well but it is not there either. Regional Railways threw lots of unusual traction out.
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No way is that SRY; it's more run down than that! It does bare a startling resemblance to nearby Southend Central though.

Floor's open if correct; I'm going to bed.

We have a winner. Carlisle to Southend Central mystery excursion 85023 throughout. My typo.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

*ahem*

Southend Central is not on the line to Southend Victoria.....

 

[Ivo]

Like I wouldn't recognise SOC. The entrance on the right (the northern entrance; Platform 2) is a 20 second walk from the college I attended for three years!

Actually, sod it. I'll do one. I'm going to PM 4SRKT the answer if it hasn't been answered by 22:30.

Peter has a good point though; the nearest connection is at Forest Gate :?

Nice to finally earn the right to do one again, instead of picking up the tab. Even if it was because I grew up three miles away...

 

[Track Basher]

Sorry my typo it is Central. Went via North London Line, Stratford, Barking and Grays.

 

[Ivo]

My first proper entry for x weeks then; here is hoping it is harder than the Nuneaton one I did earlier!

 

[Track Basher]

Milton Keynes Central.