Where is this?

[SteveT]

View media item 14
A rather poor quality TV screenshot of a WW2 scene. I can offer no clues as to its location but a wooden-platformed station half a mile south of a tunnel should be a good start.

 

[Cowley]

There doesn't seem to be a picture SteveT?

 

[SteveT]

I can see it!

 

[pdeaves]

I can't either...

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I cannot see a picture.

 

[SteveT]

Try this:

https://www.railforums.co.uk/media/where-is-it-003.14/full?d=1507830214

 

[Cowley]

Come on Steve stop teasing us.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Try this:
https://www.railforums.co.uk/media/where-is-it-003.14/full?d=1507830214

That ↑↑↑↑↑ gives me this ↓↓↓↓↓ I'm afraid...

RailUK Forums - Error
You do not have permission to view media within this album.

 

[SteveT]

Is it showing the image now?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Sorry, no. same error message.

 

[SteveT]

And now?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

No change.

Can I ask - how did you try to upload the picture to the forum originally?

 

[SteveT]

The image is in an album (shared). I have used both the media and image buttons i.e. both IMG and URL tags.

I can see it.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Can you not just upload it to the forum using the middle of the three red buttons at the lower right of the new post creation space?

 

[Cowley]

Is it anything to do with SteveT being a new member?
Does this photo have to be checked by the mods perhaps?

 

[SteveT]

 

[Cowley]

Ah there you go. Great photo, looks a bit LMS to me? I'm sure someone will recognise it, it looks like a reasonably important route.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Yes, I can see it now. I agree with Cowley it does look a bit LMS; that locomotive has the Stanier front end - maybe a Black 5?

 

[Ash Bridge]

Well I'm far from 100% certain but it does look rather like Ambergate to me.

 

[Spartacus]

I think Ambergate's always has solid platforms.

I was thinking it looks a lot like Gomersal station, and although it isn't it looks similar enough, with similar if not identical fittings, to suggest that it's another LNWR station somewhere.

Can you remember which program it was on?

 

[Ash Bridge]

The former Queensbury Station in Yorkshire has some similarities too. Ambergate seems to have possessed some wooden platform sections in earlier times on both up and down Matlock lines judging from a few images images I've seen, the lack of semaphore signaling on the above shot doesn't quite seem to fit though.

 

[theageofthetra]

Ah there you go. Great photo, looks a bit LMS to me? I'm sure someone will recognise it, it looks like a reasonably important route.

Middle of a war and not a weed to be seen.

 

[70014IronDuke]

Well I'm far from 100% certain but it does look rather like Ambergate to me.

My immediate reaction was "Between Derby and Manchester" - perhaps I was somehow thinking Ambergate too, subconsciously.

 

[SteveT]

Not Queensbury –looking towards the tunnel I'd expect to see four tracks and a footbridge.
Not Ambergate – there is no tunnel there (not a short distance from the end of any of the platforms).

 

[SteveT]

Can you remember which program it was on?

Found it...


The relevant archive film runs from 20:45 to 21:01.

Don't be fooled by the scenes showing what looks very much like a northern landscape and townscape. The whole sequence could have been cobbled together from any number of reels. However, immediately after the shot of the train arriving is a scene of soldiers on the platform of what is almost certainly the same station. The lamp and that heavily wooded hillside is the link. Queensbury doesn't have those woods.

The wooden station building should be a big help.

 

[Ploughman]

Hawick on the Borders line?

 

[Iskra]

The shot on 21:00 bang-on may be the best clue, if only someone could enlarge it.

 

[SteveT]

This is the best definition I can get:

 

[70014IronDuke]

Looking at the loco now, I kind of think it has more a GWR front end.
And the station, which I thought had Midland style fencing - does not.

Anyone recognise the lamps?

 

[70014IronDuke]

Hawick on the Borders line?

I never went to Hawick when the Waverley was open, but surely it would have been a more substantial station that the one in this film? I mean, the thought of having to work from that wooden hut in winter temperatures of 10F ...... just doesn't seem possible. I know Hawick isn't a massive place, but I think the station would have been more than this in the film.