• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

UK aerial location identification

Status
Not open for further replies.
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

Daimler

Member
Joined
5 Feb 2009
Messages
1,197
Location
Hertfordshire
I'm fairly sure it's on the WHR somewhere (that looks suspiciously like a Garratt to me!), but I've never been there, so I don't know which...
 

Peter Mugridge

Veteran Member
Joined
8 Apr 2010
Messages
16,107
Location
Epsom
not unless you took a screen grab and uploaded that

Still easier than you'd think - last year on a private forum for former pupils of my old school there was a quiz involving about 20 landmarks loaded up from Google screen grabs; most of them went straight away - people just went into a random likely looking part of the country then started skimming along across the surface...

Hence my preference for side on angles rather than straight down angles would be better.
 

Death

Established Member
Joined
23 Oct 2006
Messages
1,639
Location
Sat at the control desk of 370666...
Well...Google Maps still can't be any help in this case. Just tried to follow the path of the WHR (Note I say path...Google's aerial imagery from those parts is still pre WHR completion! :shock:) and couldn't spot any track or alignment conforming to that layout. :(

Come on Google...Ye're supposed to be the World's biggest provider of up-to-date data! Get a move on and take some updated pics of Snowdonia! :lol::p
 

blackfive460

Member
Joined
23 Jun 2010
Messages
857
While Google Maps doesn't have the railway through Beddgelert, the part of the railway in my photo is shown quite well in actually; track and stations are all there.
I'd have thought that the bit about the photo having been taken from near another railway station would have helped.
I got there on foot though!
 

Death

Established Member
Joined
23 Oct 2006
Messages
1,639
Location
Sat at the control desk of 370666...
Rhyd Ddu, presumably taken from the summit end of the SMR with a telephoto lens? <D
(Or at least if not from that far away, from the gravel/scree heaps overlooking the town. 8-) )
 
Last edited:

Death

Established Member
Joined
23 Oct 2006
Messages
1,639
Location
Sat at the control desk of 370666...
At last! Correct, give the man the full coconut. Over to you.
Sorry about the long delay...I've been chocked up with stuff all day today and havn't been able to access the forum! :oops::shock:

I'm going to try and take a bit of a break from here for the time being (And I have no aerial photos of my own either) so I'm going to open the floor for anyone else who wants to post one. <D
 

deltic1989

Established Member
Joined
21 Sep 2010
Messages
1,483
Location
Nottingham
ok well this one may be too easy but im running out of snaps.
 

Attachments

  • quiz img 4.jpg
    quiz img 4.jpg
    313.9 KB · Views: 17

deltic1989

Established Member
Joined
21 Sep 2010
Messages
1,483
Location
Nottingham
yep thought it was far to easy. Thanks goes to thisislincolnshire.co.uk for allowing me to ues the picture.
 

Peter Mugridge

Veteran Member
Joined
8 Apr 2010
Messages
16,107
Location
Epsom
I don't think this one will last very long either... :)
 

Attachments

  • Picture 12836.jpg
    Picture 12836.jpg
    323.7 KB · Views: 36

Peter Mugridge

Veteran Member
Joined
8 Apr 2010
Messages
16,107
Location
Epsom
Retford is correct.

I knew that track layout was perhaps too distinctive for quiz purposes!:roll:
 

Peter Mugridge

Veteran Member
Joined
8 Apr 2010
Messages
16,107
Location
Epsom
Sorry for such a long wait; I haven't had much time to do any scanning recently!

This should be a relatively easy one. It's the site of a former station.
 

Attachments

  • Picture 10859.jpg
    Picture 10859.jpg
    365.7 KB · Views: 27
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top