Game: Name that road!

[All uphill]

We have a winner!

Over to you!

 

[MontyVeda]

Never been to Stoke, but it's amazing what one can discover by googling "old pub now paint shop"

Got to be a bit more specific than simply naming the road... name that bridge (or at least its location)

 

[All uphill]

Never been to Stoke, but it's amazing what one can discover by googling "old pub now paint shop"

Got to be a bit more specific than simply naming the road... name that bridge
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Haha, good googling!

 

[All uphill]

Never been to Stoke, but it's amazing what one can discover by googling "old pub now paint shop"

Got to be a bit more specific than simply naming the road... name that bridge
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That's a very cool bridge! Very elegant.

I have no idea where it is though. The reddish hard shoulder makes me think that its northish, and the low level of traffic leads me to think its away from the big cities. Hmmm.

 

[robjh]

That's a very cool bridge! Very elegant.

I have no idea where it is though. The reddish hard shoulder makes me think that its northish, and the low level of traffic leads me to think its away from the big cities. Hmmm.

As an aside, do hard shoulders really get redder the further north you go, and if so, do you have any idea why?

 

[MontyVeda]

That's a very cool bridge! Very elegant.

I have no idea where it is though. The reddish hard shoulder makes me think that its northish, and the low level of traffic leads me to think its away from the big cities. Hmmm.

it could be rather early on a mid-summer morning .

 

[All uphill]

As an aside, do hard shoulders really get redder the further north you go, and if so, do you have any idea why?

I have no idea! Don't know where that came from, it just doesn't look like anything local to me in the South/southwest

 

[Aravis]

It can't be a motorway if it was taken on a bike ride.

 

[ColinJ]

I went back and checked what 'rules' I had proposed when I started the thread. I expressed a preference for photos taken on rides of scenic country roads with identifiable features so oddly-painted cottages on lanes are definitely 'in' and motorway bridges photographed from motorways are definitely 'out'!

Rain-soaked gutters on boring town roads are just about in, but a bit bloody depressing at this time of year! Hasn't anybody got some photos of glorious hairpin bends on magnificent climbs, that kind of thing?

Meanwhile I will post 'before' and 'after' photos of the same road... I will tell you later what was going on, and the extra significance of it!

Before (strictly 'during', but I don't have a 'before' picture!):

After:

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Somewhere near Whaley Bridge

 

[ColinJ]

Somewhere near Whaley Bridge

Nope - over 40 kms/25 miles away.

 

[MontyVeda]

I went back and checked what 'rules' I had proposed when I started the thread. I expressed a preference for photos taken on rides of scenic country roads with identifiable features so oddly-painted cottages on lanes are definitely 'in' and motorway bridges photographed from motorways are definitely 'out'!

...

Boooo! I had one photo of a road and it's not good enough for you. ...apparently, there's no other motorway bridge in the country like that one.

Anyway... the rules say 'should' and not 'must' ...so taking the highway code as a bench mark

 

[ColinJ]

Boooo! I had one photo of a road and it's not good enough for you. ...apparently, there's no other motorway bridge in the country like that one.

Anyway... the rules say 'should' and not 'must' ...so taking the highway code as a bench mark

It is certainly a nice bridge... as far as motorway bridges go!

 

[lazybloke]

@MontyVeda. - M1 just north of j36
Edit - Pilley Lane bridge

 

[MontyVeda]

@MontyVeda. - M1 just north of j36
Edit - Pilley Lane bridge

good guess, but wrong motorway and wrong lane.