Where was I ?

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:40 pm

A new game ! Identify the location.R

Post by **kanonkopdrinker** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:36 pm

Would I be correct in thinking that this is a road bridge, that once was a railway AND road bridge, the rails set in the roadway like tram tracks? If so, I have a sneaking feeling I might know where it is...Yours in colour,DC

Ian · Post by **Ian** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:41 pm

I think I might know too. Maybe a few miles north from London, perhaps...

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:03 pm

kanonkopdrinker wrote:Would I be correct in thinking that this is a road bridge, that once was a railway AND road bridge, the rails set in the roadway like tram tracks? If so, I have a sneaking feeling I might know where it is...Yours in colour,DC

I think you may be in mind of a similar place. This one had a vehicle ferry (only) up to 1975 when the bridge opened. A branch line, long gone, passed very close but not across. R.

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:06 pm

Ian wrote:I think I might know too. Maybe a few miles north from London, perhaps...

About 480 of them ? Don't be shy, give it a go !R.Whoever guesses correctly, has to provide the next 'Where was I?'

Interpol2471 · Post by **Interpol2471** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:21 pm

Errmm well I am not going to say as I lived close by for six months but had to catch the ferry then

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:53 am

Interpol2471 wrote:Errmm well I am not going to say as I lived close by for six months but had to catch the ferry then

Just a whippersnapper then, then ?R.

Ian · Post by **Ian** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:01 pm

OK, I'll go for it.It's the Connell Bridge, once a rail-only bridge (till 1975, so well after Beeching) that was on the line from Connell and Oban to Ballachulish near Glencoe. At least, I think so.There you go, stuck my neck out...Ian

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:07 pm

Ian wrote:OK, I'll go for it.It's the Connell Bridge,Ian

Half right, it's certainly a bridge ! There was a branch line that went past the ????? Bridge to serve the slate quarry further up.R.

rustynuts · Post by **rustynuts** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:41 pm

If I may be so bold, I would suggest it is the Ballachulish bridge on the A82. Ian was warm, but just a wee but too far south.

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:08 am

rustynuts wrote:it is the Ballachulish bridge on the A82. .

GIVE THAT MAN A COCONUT!! WELL DONE !And an honorable mention to TRL who spotted it immediately, but didn't want to spoil the fun.Where did he spot it ? In my Gallery, where you can see the complete bridge.R.

rustynuts · Post by **rustynuts** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:26 pm

I shall be round for my coconut as soon as I have fixed the pin hole in the petrol tank of the Interplod, which has left a nice white streak down the engine casing.In the meantime, I believe it is my privilege to post the next challenge.Keeping with the bridge theme, my initial thoughts were:

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Much too easy as the banner gives it away.Then I thought:

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But then I thought this one was way too obscure.I finally settled on:

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This is a well known bridge, photographed from an unusual perspective.

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Sun Nov 29, 2009 5:48 pm

rustynuts wrote:This is a well known bridge, photographed from an unusual perspective.

The wildest of guesses, since there aren't too many clues - the old bridge, now by-passed, at Donington circuit ?R.

Interpol2471 · Post by **Interpol2471** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:17 pm

Well I know the first one but the other two are well beyond my limited thought process

rustynuts · Post by **rustynuts** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:27 pm

The wildest of guesses, since there aren't too many clues - the old bridge, now by-passed, at Donington circuit ?R.

It's a few miles south of Donnington circuit and predates it by a couple of milennia. The very narrow cross section may give a clue to what once crossed it.

TRL · Post by **TRL** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:25 pm

I am not familiar with it but could it be Essex Bridge, Staffordshire or Sutton, Bedfordshire?

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:34 pm

south of Donnington circuit and predates it by a couple of milennia. Hello again - back from a windy bit of boating.A Roman aqueduct perhaps ?Not in the UK ?Gizzakloo !R.

rustynuts · Post by **rustynuts** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:19 pm

Oui monsieur, il a porter l'eau à travers une vallée d'un fleuve.What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, they built this brige, or more like three briges, one on top of another.

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 11:59 pm

rustynuts wrote:Oui monsieur, il a porter l'eau à travers une vallée d'un fleuve.What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, they built this brige, or more like three briges, one on top of another.

That might be Pont du Gard then ?A coconut to you, I believe.

rustynuts · Post by **rustynuts** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:54 pm

Tres bon, monsieur!Looks like we are now even in the coconut stakes.

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:47 pm

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50 years ago, it was a nightmare on a summer's Sunday evening. The only road crossing for miles, single track and traffic lights too, but on a summer evening it was covered in lights - very pretty.Go there now and you'll miss it completely.

TRL · Post by **TRL** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:20 pm

I think this one is not far from me. Built by Thomas Telford alongside a wrought iron box girder rail bridge if I am not mistaken and bypassed by a newer road bridge and tunnel.

TRL · Post by **TRL** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:42 pm

TRL wrote:I think this one is not far from me. Built by Thomas Telford alongside a wrought iron box girder rail bridge if I am not mistaken and bypassed by a newer road bridge and tunnel.

Correction it's neighbour is classed as wrought iron tubular rail bridge completed in 1849 by Robert Stephenson or was it George Stephenson, depending which site you believe, and it is the only one remaining in the UK. Of the other two one was destroyed by fire and the other demolished.There is a nice photo of the three bridges together from the Castle athttp://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/conwy12big.html

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:40 pm

TRL wrote: There is a nice photo of the three bridges together from the Castle athttp://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk/conwy12big.html

Pooh ! Too easy. Your turn.R.

TRL · Post by **TRL** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:05 pm

OK but did I get a coconut?This one should make you think.What is the connection between these three "bridges" and Wales?

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Steve Gee · Post by **Steve Gee** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:16 pm

not a clue, but the third one is giving me vertigo just looking at it !

Richard Negus · Post by **Richard Negus** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:30 pm

TRL wrote:OK but did I get a coconut?This one should make you think.What is the connection between these three "bridges" and Wales?

Haven't a clue - for all I know, they could be in Patagonia !'Course you get a coconut. R.

TRL · Post by **TRL** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:18 pm

Clue: It's all in the name.One is in England, one in Bulgaria, and one in Arizona

rustynuts · Post by **rustynuts** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:58 pm

How the devil should I know?

Interpol2471 · Post by **Interpol2471** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:19 am

Oh Rustynuts I think you are closer than you think unless that was a bit of a clever line

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