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Does anyone recogise this WR quayside scene?


Andy Kirkham
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I've been browsing the Peter Gray collection on the Transport Treasury website https://www.transporttreasury.com/p1039757392 and came across a rather charming and distinctly model-able quayside scene which I don't recognise. It doesn't seem possible to link directly to it; you need to follow the above link and go to image No.503 or a similar one at 515

 

Plymouth comes naturally to mind, but I don't recall any GW-served quays there where the land rises up so steeply immediately behind.

 

Any suggestions?

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Yes I think you're right. It looks a lot less picturesque nowadays if this is the same place.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.5466383,-3.501721,3a,75y,8.12h,80.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s93MRVJDWH-yQNIdPdJD01Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB

 

I hadn't taken into account that the railway in the background might be a main line

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13 minutes ago, gwrrob said:

Teignmouth Quay

 

10/10 that man. Between the OLD & eastern Quays. Just needs the old Teignmouth Quay Company shunting traction ingine to complete the scene.

http://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=133433&category_id=17_20_35

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Plymouth?  If so about the only option would be back of Lockyer Quay which is close by where coasters used to discharge coal.  For a while, the white crossing gate suggested the Southern line to Sutton Harbour. Only a guess!:unsure:

     Brian.

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Some time (1980s/90s?) that quay at Teignmouth has been filled into make the Western Quay longer,

 

edit here is a distant view of Teignmouth from 1984, which I believe shows the location of the quay.

598985761_TeignmouthDocks1984.jpg.4a3b59600f368705ff89a122299fac8a.jpg

The middle of the three ships (the one with just the stern showing) is actually in that quay I think. It has since been filled in.

Siegerland (l), Viscount Groningen (m), and Baltica (r) at Teignmouth 21/7/84.

 

cheers

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