Where am I?

[Ash Bridge]

To hopefully move things along, I've now removed much cropping from the image to include more detail of the surrounding area.

 

[madjack]

I was about to give up but - finally...

Driffield, on the Yorkshire Coast line

 

[Ash Bridge]

I was about to give up but - finally...

Driffield, on the Yorkshire Coast line

Well done! I admire you determination there madjack

 

[madjack]

It's given me lots of ideas for another time...

For now here's somewhere a lot more distinctive.

 

[gazthomas]

Easy, Dunbar

 

[madjack]

Very good, over to you

 

[gazthomas]

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!

 

[backontrack]

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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...!!! )

 

[madjack]

I'd have never got Helmsdale, looks a lot larger than it should for the current traffic...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Is the question setter going to confirm or otherwise the answer, please?


( I do have an image prepared... )

 

[backontrack]

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...!!! )

Correct - very serendipitous!

I'd have never got Helmsdale, looks a lot larger than it should for the current traffic...

Like Golspie and Helmsdale, it's larger than you'd think...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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...

 

[madjack]

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?

 

[A Challenge]

Dalston Kingsland?

 

[Gathursty]

New Beckenham?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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?

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]

OK... looks like it's clue time...

The image is carefully cropped; it is nowhere near as urban / suburban as it looks...

 

[backontrack]

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?

Here's the next one, and also the first time I have actually taken the floor on this thread.

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]

Esher?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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]

Westgate-on-Sea?

 

[madjack]

Well played Dan, I thought Whitstable this morning but missed Westgate...

What was the architectural clue?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

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.

 

[DanTrain]

Since there's not a lot of movement round here, I thought I'd move things along with a coastal resort of my own:

 

[Ash Bridge]

I'm going for the North Wales coast, is that Abergele & Pensarn?

 

[DanTrain]

It is indeed, that didn't take long. Your go!

 

[Ash Bridge]

Cheers Dan, here's another....