November Quiz - Day 2

[SE13]

A single part question today, and there are a couple of bonus points available too:



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[Deleted]

The main picture is Willesden Junction platform 1 looking up with WS22 signal in view. The lower insert looks like Hungerford bridge from the adjacent footbridge.

[Oracle]

Independently, I am sure that the inset is indeed Hungerford Bridge..I have been over the footbridge enough times in the dim and distant past!

[Deleted]

I reckon that bridge is Fulham Railway Bridge.

[astock5000]

Willesden Junction +1.

[SE13]

One inset still to find:

Main photograph: Willesden Junction - southound Bakleroo and Overground platform, looking south [Mackenzieblu]


Inset 1:


Inset 2: Charing Cross railway bridge [Chris M]
(And at this point I spot that the picture hasn't uploaded)

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[Chris M]

Actually, I had uploaded it, just under the wrong name Sorry.

Inset 2: Charing Cross railway bridge [Chris M]

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[Deleted]

Charing Cross railway bridge is actually called Hungerford Bridge!

[Oracle]

I was too polite to mention it. However, I am glad that I didn't raise the point as London Wiki says:

"The Hungerford Bridge crosses the River Thames in London, and lies between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. It is a steel truss railway bridge — sometimes known as the Charing Cross Bridge — flanked by two cable-stayed pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foundation piers, and which are properly named the Golden Jubilee Bridges. "

I first walked over it in 1965 when we used to go to the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Saturday mornings. Our teacher took us up by train from Feltham and afterwards we walked over the bridge and thence to Trafalagar Square. The 'orrible narrow footbridge has long gone thank goodness. Two people could not cross easily in opposite directions.

[SE13]

It's one I have always known as Charing Cross Bridge, though I am aware that others use different names, I believe Hungerford was the footbridge originally, so I suppose it's a local thing.

[miztert]

Nov 3, 2010 15:59:32 GMT Oracle said:

I was too polite to mention it. However, I am glad that I didn't raise the point as London Wiki says:

"The Hungerford Bridge crosses the River Thames in London, and lies between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. It is a steel truss railway bridge — sometimes known as the Charing Cross Bridge — flanked by two cable-stayed pedestrian bridges that share the railway bridge's foundation piers, and which are properly named the Golden Jubilee Bridges. "

I first walked over it in 1965 when we used to go to the Robert Mayer Concerts for Children at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Saturday mornings. Our teacher took us up by train from Feltham and afterwards we walked over the bridge and thence to Trafalagar Square. The 'orrible narrow footbridge has long gone thank goodness. Two people could not cross easily in opposite directions.

It wasn't that narrow! It was basically single file in each direction though. I'm sure there's some photos out there on the web somewhere, but my quick search of Flickr didn't throw any up.