Guess the Station...

[Track Basher]

You are lucky. Not easy to see on a mobile.

Llantwit Major

 

[Ivo]

Lucky until ye return in the evening, you mean...?

Llantwit Major is also incorrect.

 

[4SRKT]

Cathays

 

[Ivo]

I am not going to confirm or deny as much (yet anyway), but why does everyone seem to assume that this station is Welsh...

Cathays is not correct.

 

[flymo]

Lympstone Commando?

 

[Ivo]

Nay.

Cursed five character minimum post length

 

[Track Basher]

Kidwelly

 

[Ivo]

Kidwelly

At this point I am going to concede that the station in question is indeed Welsh. But it is not Kidwelly.

 

[CardiffKid]

Llandaff?

 

[Ivo]

Sorry, but no.

 

[Track Basher]

That I knew as the reflection is an Arriva 142/3.

I can't place the station.

Pembroke

 

[Ivo]

Still not correct, although an amusing point I noticed out there yesterday. The eastbound HST 2+8 stop sign had been knocked over :? If I'd noticed early enough I would have photted it and shown you all...

 

[Track Basher]

Saundersfoot

 

[Ivo]

Still not correct. I can't see this lasting much longer though.

 

[Track Basher]

I has the be on the Pembroke line as this is the only route down west that has a 142/3 diagramed on a Saturday.

Penally

 

[Ivo]

<sigh>

At this point I'm going to say that Track Basher has won, even though the correct answer is still at bay. He has correctly determined that the station is somewhere on the Pembroke branch, and in theory could just post all of them one-by-one (more than one without a reply is cheating, as I've found out the hard way before now...) until he calls it, as has been true of the last few. So, to save time, the correct answer is...

Kilgetty

 

[Ivo]

By the way, how could you tell that it was an ATW 142?

 

[Track Basher]

Sad person alert.

The positioning of the safety notices on the hopper windows reflected in the picture. I have never seen these on any other pacer operated by another TOC.

I cannot think of a valleys station that has that type of building in the background. Most buildings around valleys stations are Victorian terraces.

The only other route pacers are regularly diagrammed is Pembroke Dock on a Saturday. The Fishguard is occasionally one but normally a 150. Pacers very rarely go to Milford as these are Manchester trains and normally 175.

The floor is open on my way back from Scotland.

 

[steamybrian]

Dont know the area but my spot guess is...

Ferryside

 

[Ivo]

Is a bit late now; I surrendered it. Ferryside would have been too far to the east anyway.

Once again, the answer was Kilgetty.

 

[Track Basher]

I knew it was not between Carmarthen and Swansea as I know those quite well.

 

[Track Basher]

As there has been no takers I shall take my win as I can now post photos.

And no it is not from this weekends trip. You will have to wait for some of those.

 

[4SRKT]

Annan

 

[Track Basher]

No Dot Dot Dot

 

[Ivo]

The picture looks too old (even before the loco is considered) for it to have been done literally yesterday; it seems to have used an older camera.

Mesa going to try something random again. How does Wem (yes, I know, I said Wem on another recently) sound? Horribly inaccurate?

 

[Track Basher]

It is a scan of an old 35mm slide.

No not Wem.

 

[scotsman]

Garve

 

[Track Basher]

No not Garve.

 

[Ivo]

Bishopbriggs

 

[Track Basher]

Still no.