Ash Bridge
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To hopefully move things along, I've now removed much cropping from the image to include more detail of the surrounding area.
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madjack
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I was about to give up but - finally...
Driffield, on the Yorkshire Coast line
Driffield, on the Yorkshire Coast line
Ash Bridge
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I was about to give up but - finally...
Driffield, on the Yorkshire Coast line
Well done! I admire you determination there madjack
madjack
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It's given me lots of ideas for another time... 
For now here's somewhere a lot more distinctive.
For now here's somewhere a lot more distinctive.
madjack
Member
Very good, over to you 
Thanks Madjack - open floor as I’m away from my PC and mapping on my phone has labels I can’t get rid of!Very good, over to you
backontrack
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Peter Mugridge
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That looks like Helmsdale to me?
( I was doing a Google Maps flyover of the entire Far North Line only three or four days ago...!!!
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( I was doing a Google Maps flyover of the entire Far North Line only three or four days ago...!!!
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madjack
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I'd have never got Helmsdale, looks a lot larger than it should for the current traffic...
Peter Mugridge
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Is the question setter going to confirm or otherwise the answer, please?
( I do have an image prepared... )
( I do have an image prepared... )
backontrack
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Correct - very serendipitous!That looks like Helmsdale to me?
( I was doing a Google Maps flyover of the entire Far North Line only three or four days ago...!!!
Like Golspie and Helmsdale, it's larger than you'd think...
Peter Mugridge
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Thank you, and yes - pure chance... I'd been reading the discussion on this forum about the Far North Line and thought I might as well have another look at it...
I guess you were doing the same for the same reason and that's why you chose that location?
Anyway...
Here's the next one, and also the first time I have actually taken the floor on this thread.
I guess you were doing the same for the same reason and that's why you chose that location?
Anyway...
Here's the next one, and also the first time I have actually taken the floor on this thread.
Peter Mugridge
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Nearly a week and no takers?!
Well... if you need a clue, those who are architecturally minded with a knowledge of history would do well to look carefully at the road immediately above the station in the image. There's a blindingly obvious clue...
Well... if you need a clue, those who are architecturally minded with a knowledge of history would do well to look carefully at the road immediately above the station in the image. There's a blindingly obvious clue...
madjack
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It's not jumping out 
, although that road shape looks very distinctive... If no winners in the next couple of days could you give us a region?
, although that road shape looks very distinctive... If no winners in the next couple of days could you give us a region?A Challenge
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Dalston Kingsland?
Peter Mugridge
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It's not jumping out
Yes, if nobody is getting warm by then I will give a further clue. I don't think the road shape itself is distinctive, though - note that I used the word "architecturally"...
Peter Mugridge
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OK... looks like it's clue time...
The image is carefully cropped; it is nowhere near as urban / suburban as it looks...
The image is carefully cropped; it is nowhere near as urban / suburban as it looks...
backontrack
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Congratulations!
I just decided on Helmsdale, it wasn't to do with any discussion actually. The Far North Line is a railway very close to my heart
backontrack
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Esher?
Peter Mugridge
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Not Esher...
I have to say that all the guesses so far have been in the right corner of the country though, but not far enough out.
I have to say that all the guesses so far have been in the right corner of the country though, but not far enough out.
Peter Mugridge
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Given the number of clues I have given, plus the obvious orientation of the line from the image and shadows, I am surprised that people haven't at least started listing all the stations on the line in question!
DanNCL
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Westgate-on-Sea?
madjack
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Well played Dan, I thought Whitstable this morning but missed Westgate... 
What was the architectural clue?
What was the architectural clue?
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Peter Mugridge
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Dan's got it. It wasn't that hard really was it? 
The architectural clue is, it is one only about three or four places left in the UK ( we had a thread on the subject a couple of years ago ) which still have Victorian street canopies - they are visible in the image just above the station.
Seen better in Streetview, obviously: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3...4!1sfykVGeWR28JGoFKim7X6Cg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Anyway... Dan... your coastal resort.
The architectural clue is, it is one only about three or four places left in the UK ( we had a thread on the subject a couple of years ago ) which still have Victorian street canopies - they are visible in the image just above the station.
Seen better in Streetview, obviously: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3...4!1sfykVGeWR28JGoFKim7X6Cg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Anyway... Dan... your coastal resort.
Ash Bridge
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I'm going for the North Wales coast, is that Abergele & Pensarn?
