Guess the City

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

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.

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?

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

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)

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

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)

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.

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.

Its two bridges isn't it, not one

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

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.

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

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.

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

it could be a tunnel?

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

lol uk, never change

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

View #2

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

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

ALL
TRAFFIC
SQUIRRELS
AHEAD

I'm starting to think old airfield after all

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

> the cast iron fencing seems odd for a railway

God's Wonderful Railings:

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

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.

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

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

"LEAMINGTON ASS"

bournemouth

we're going to have to see the wall bruv

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

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

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

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

As promised, view #3

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

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

https://www.storageking.co.uk/

That's an IMO car wash. There are 269 of them in the UK apparently.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1960783,-2.207612,3a,75y,61.94h,92.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sjh_DXw75FO8PUtxC7ORBLw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

i don't know if that was deliberate but making me click through ALL the storageking locations and have it be the very last one was mean.

wow!

Well done Koogs, no of course that was not deliberate!

This was to be the fourth post

https://i.imgur.com/DIV5UZf.png

storageking helpfully had images of the stores right there on the individual pages and a 'view on map' link. and most of them were just giant sheds on industrial estates.

now to find the railway bridge...

I mean it won't take you very long

was more about confirming my theory about the sign

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1960421,-2.2081699,3a,15y,4.22h,82.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxIpcNSIseV2Al69qDXR1Qw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

BRB
OWW
12047

and ofc, the second line was the important one. (BRB = British Railways Board)

http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/elrs/_mileages/o/oww.shtm

120.47 Shrub Hill Junction with WAH

be right back
off with wife

Haha I just lurk on this thread bit when I saw photo #3 I was going to drop in "that weirdly reminds me of Worcester but you all think it's in other parts of the country so I trust you".

it's the street I grew up on. Nobody thinks Worcester looks like this, people just know the nice bits.

my bit of tolly is much nicer, but it's still tolly

I was looking at a lot of brick walls in Birmingham, so at least I wasn't too far away.