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Wednesday wall

https://i.imgur.com/1T8Jaw3.png

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link

🧱

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link

do the no-waiting double yellow lines combined with the scenery suggest that it’s either the UK or Ireland? if so, I’m probably going to have to sit this one out

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2dImprgiB8

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link

Can confirm that it's not in Nottingham

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link

o.wow @ o.nate - well done on the Strasbourg!

StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link

the new pic - I was staring at the wall & plats just to the left of the lighter rectangle in the middle of the pic but it's Google Streetview pasting two images together again (creating that clone tool effect)

StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link

wall & plaNts

StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link

πŸŽ‰ on the Strasbourg, impressed!

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link

Yellow lines suggest UK, though it could be a replica in Huizhou

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link

Looks like a rail bridge on the left

cherry blossom, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link

it's a fascinating wall though - is that black pole that's now in the wall itself an ex-gaslight? or did it support the horizontal (stone?) slabs & this is some kind of walled-up gallery?

StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link

Liverpool?

ignore the blue line (or something), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link

I can confirm that walls seem to be present in Liverpool

StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link

the "it's grim up North" vibe does resonate though, I don't disagree

StanM, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link

yeah. looks like a sign on the wall on the right like they have along railway lines but i can't make out the letters BRO OFW? (and then a distance, in chains, from the nearest station)

curious about the railings on the roof in strasbourg.

koogs, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link

Just a guess, but might be a way to allow for snow to melt without cascading down in sheets and hurting people during a thaw?

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link

I was thinking about it too, and that was the only reason I could summon

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link

it just has to be britain though and we don't get much snow in blighty (or do anything to prepare for what we do get)

γ€ŠMyst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link

If it’s ERD rather than BRO, it could be Birmingham, I guess.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link

which line would that be on? i found a page listing all railway bridges in the uk, but it's organised by line (and pdfs so not searchable without having downloaded them first)

koogs, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link

the roof railings (and general roof design for snow) are discussed here https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/a8y39d/eli5_why_are_so_many_german_roofs_built_very/

bit surprised to see them in strasbourg tbh. can't imagine they get much snow there.

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 05:42 (two years ago) link

Could easily be brum, or any other city with large victorian brick infrastructure. Surprisingly hard to find a road that follows the curve of an elevated railway like that though, and the old fence at the top and the overgrowth suggest it's not an actual in-use railway line.

I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Thursday, 10 June 2021 07:28 (two years ago) link

Its two bridges isn't it, not one

cherry blossom, Thursday, 10 June 2021 07:42 (two years ago) link

Which means lines diverging, which would make sense if this is close to a station

cherry blossom, Thursday, 10 June 2021 07:44 (two years ago) link

I am not totally convinced the main wall taking up much of the picture is an elevated railway but I can't really justify that past saying the cast iron fencing seems odd for a railway (even disused) and I'd kinda expect to see arches in a railway bridge. I realise this is not much help.

Tim, Thursday, 10 June 2021 08:43 (two years ago) link

(I mean it's quite likely it's a raised piece of railway, I'm just not sure it is)

Tim, Thursday, 10 June 2021 08:54 (two years ago) link

if only those letters were slightly more legible; going on koogs' station code theory i've been going through this list: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/48541.aspx (alphabetical by name not code) but no joy.

I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Thursday, 10 June 2021 09:17 (two years ago) link

Guessing that the markings on the bridge on the background suggest it's at least low-ish, I've been trying to find an appropriate low bridge on here but I haven't got anywhere yet: https://www.truckingjobs.co.uk/2018/10/low-bridge-map-uk.html

Tim, Thursday, 10 June 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link

it could be a tunnel?

StanM, Thursday, 10 June 2021 09:47 (two years ago) link

(just because it looks so dark under there, must be hella wide)

StanM, Thursday, 10 June 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link

lol uk, never change

https://www.hgvalliance.com/Helpful-Guides/bridge-strike/low-bridge-finder/uk

StanM, Thursday, 10 June 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link

View #2

https://i.imgur.com/D73Y3Ww.png

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 June 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link

Left-hand drive and English language signage. I guess we've already decided its UK.

o. nate, Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link

ALL
TRAFFIC
SQUIRRELS
AHEAD

I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Thursday, 10 June 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link

I'm starting to think old airfield after all

StanM, Thursday, 10 June 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link

those plants don't look very northern to me. trying to think of somewhere grim and railway oriented in the SW.

π” π”žπ”’π”¨ (caek), Thursday, 10 June 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link

> the cast iron fencing seems odd for a railway

God's Wonderful Railings:

https://www.google.com/search?q=gwr+railings&tbm=isch

koogs, Thursday, 10 June 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link

I've spent a lot of time on Google Street view looking at UK cities trying to find old brick walls near railroad underpasses. Definitely found some spots with a similar vibe, but so far no joy.

o. nate, Friday, 11 June 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link

I'll add a third picture when I get home this evening

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 June 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link

The van is about to turn into the warehouse place - same logo on both: LA??.

Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 11 June 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link

"LEAMINGTON ASS"

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Friday, 11 June 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link

bournemouth

koogs, Friday, 11 June 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link

we're going to have to see the wall bruv

StanM, Friday, 11 June 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link

(there's a yellow bus in the background of second pic and googling yellow buses had bournemouth as the first hit. BRO = bournemouth?)

koogs, Friday, 11 June 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link

I was wondering about the bus and Christchurch but I guess they probably share

cherry blossom, Friday, 11 June 2021 17:38 (two years ago) link

apparently BRO = Bridge Of Orchy station (in Argyll, SCO) & doesn't look like it's it

StanM, Friday, 11 June 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link

( https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/48541.aspx )

StanM, Friday, 11 June 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link

As promised, view #3

https://i.imgur.com/ozFWMPx.png

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 June 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link

that building on the left is probably the big clue here, is that W a well-known logo in Britland?

StanM, Friday, 11 June 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link


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