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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Game: Name that road!
- Thread starter ColinJ
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Well found Guy!
That lane has always been a lane and was never part of the old railway.
if you look at this hundred year old map, my SV shot was taken from the '16' marker and the old railway is shown to the east, veering toward Lune Mills to which the chimney was the power station for.
The chimney would have been fully dismantled but the mobile phone masts on it meant it had to stay at least until their contracts had expired. The old power station dates from 1949. It's a nice chunk of bricks and is classed as a heritage site, but isn't listed... so will probably be completely demolished in the near future
As for Guy's entry... That looks like a wind turbine just in view on the right.
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Point of order...
Ok, it isn't a railway NOW but the cycle path to Glasson Dock follows the course of a dismantled railway line!
That lane has always been a lane and was never part of the old railway.
if you look at this hundred year old map, my SV shot was taken from the '16' marker and the old railway is shown to the east, veering toward Lune Mills to which the chimney was the power station for.
The chimney would have been fully dismantled but the mobile phone masts on it meant it had to stay at least until their contracts had expired. The old power station dates from 1949. It's a nice chunk of bricks and is classed as a heritage site, but isn't listed... so will probably be completely demolished in the near future
As for Guy's entry... That looks like a wind turbine just in view on the right.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I didn't mean the lane - I meant the embankment in the distance which the railway ran along (or behind), which is what @BrumJim asked about.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
that's a dyke, part of our flood defences. (is it a dyke, or is a dyke a ditch... either way... not a railway... a lumpy thing to keep water out)
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
That looks like the base of a wind turbine on the right of the picture. There are only about 1,500 onshore windfarms in the UK, so that narrows it down a bit!
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
there used to be a railway, but... the only evidence of it in this challenge is this hedge:
the dyke/long lump thing, i believe, came long after the railway was axed.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
there used to be a railway, but... the only evidence of it in this challenge is this hedge:
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the dyke/long lump thing, i believe, came long after the railway was axed.
Oh, I see where I went wrong... I thought we were looking west from Aldcliffe, not looking north having turned right at the end of what Google Maps calls Aldcliffe Hall Ln, but my OS map calls Railway Crossing Ln. That makes sense now!
(That also explains why I couldn't spot the chimney!)
cougie uk
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Don't keep us all in suspense then...!
cougie uk
Guru
It's the NCN 5 across the Frodsham Marshes. First did it on a 25mm race bike and my pals cursed me for that. Just the one flat.Don't keep us all in suspense then...!
Went back about 5 years later on a gravelbike - bit better but I felt sorry for the poor lady on her purple brompton I met riding it.
The runway at Port Stanley was smoother in the 80s.
GuyBoden
Guru
- Location
- Warrington
Well done, it's an interesting route, I've only been able to ride that gravel path in recent years on bigger tyres, the old racing bike tyres were too narrow for comfort.
The whole path to Ellesmere port entails; Wind Farms, Bird watchers, Hovercraft circuits, Fertilizer Factories, Hydrogen Plants, Oil Refineries and Big ships where the Manchester Ship canal meets the river mersey. It's got all the visitor attractions anyone needs.
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
Is that the road over the canal near Bunbury?
GuyBoden
Guru
- Location
- Warrington
Yes, well done, I thought so too.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1...4!1sz6sNdY2v5Vy70BBQ7K1n_w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1...4!1sz6sNdY2v5Vy70BBQ7K1n_w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
