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Offline Stewie

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4248 on: March 30, 2021, 09:18:17 AM »
Quote from: Pete on March 30, 2021, 08:36:31 AM
Roman Painted House Dover?
Pretty close Pete!
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« Reply #4247 on: March 30, 2021, 08:36:31 AM »
Roman Painted House Dover?
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« Reply #4246 on: March 30, 2021, 06:23:23 AM »
Right on both counts JW the two figures used to be part of a larger diorama.
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« Reply #4245 on: March 29, 2021, 11:59:45 PM »
A museum in East Kent?
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« Reply #4244 on: March 29, 2021, 05:59:14 PM »
Thank you John Walker it’s nice to have a GTP that I can take part in! :)
[/size][/color]Wittersham Road is indeed a passing loop station between Rolvenden and Bodiam on the KE&SR. Trains do stop there and just by the signal box is a children's playground where we took the grandchildren whilst on a visit a couple of years ago. The Wittersham Road box I think I am right in saying was the former Deal Junction signal box located on the Kearsney Triangle on the 'Western' Junction. The junction now removed, allowed trains from the direction of Canterbury East to access the line toward Deal, Sandwich and Minster.[/size][/color] [/size][/color]I took the next picture a couple of years ago whilst on a 'solo' day out. Probably easy if you have been there! [/size]
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4243 on: March 29, 2021, 09:47:57 AM »
Quote from: Stewie on March 29, 2021, 07:54:12 AM
Single line, no conductor rail, looks like a heritage railway. Is it Wittersham Road signal box on the Kent & East Sussex railway?


You have it Stewie.  Must be the least used halt on that line.  It's so remote. I'm not even sure if the trains stop there but it looks like it could be used as a passing loop.


Over to you  :D
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4242 on: March 29, 2021, 07:54:12 AM »
Single line, no conductor rail, looks like a heritage railway. Is it Wittersham Road signal box on the Kent & East Sussex railway?
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« Reply #4241 on: March 28, 2021, 05:08:08 PM »
Quote from: grandarog on March 28, 2021, 03:45:03 PM
Chartham ??


Not Chartham,  Grandadrog.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4240 on: March 28, 2021, 03:45:03 PM »
Chartham ??

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« Reply #4239 on: March 28, 2021, 03:24:59 PM »
Thanks Pete,


Funny story about the pilots and their top ups.  I guessed it was near water due to the stilts.  Tried the Medway area and then move onto Gravesend.  A town I've never visited.  I'm sure there's plenty of history to explore on day.


Next one - not a pub or a church this time - should be an easy one for our railway guys...
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« Reply #4238 on: March 28, 2021, 08:53:14 AM »
It is, home of the pilots. When I was on calls, working in the Clarendon Hotel opposite never ceased to amaze me the number of pilots that came in, with their chart cases and asked for "the usual,  I'm sailing in 15 minutes". Barman gets a bottle of Perrier out of the cooler, tips half down the sink and adds a couple of shots of gin or vodka. I'm sure such things never happen now :o
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« Reply #4237 on: March 27, 2021, 11:47:16 PM »
Port of London Building on the banks of the Thames at Gravesend?
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« Reply #4236 on: March 27, 2021, 10:21:14 PM »
Just for a change NOT a pub
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Offline shoot999

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« Reply #4235 on: March 27, 2021, 05:47:41 PM »
Well done Pete. Its the Strand Cafe. I've put up the two previous Strand Cafes on GTP and they went pretty quickly. This ones quite new so obvious took longer.  It's only been there 55 years lol.


As you can see from this pic, I had to crop it quite severely to cover up the more obvious landmarks.
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« Reply #4234 on: March 27, 2021, 05:04:57 PM »
The Strand
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