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Offline Gwynant

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2910 on: August 11, 2013, 09:46:17 pm »
                 No sorry Yorkie. I'll throw in a clue, the bridge is carrying a disused railway line.

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« Reply #2911 on: August 11, 2013, 10:22:32 pm »
Is it Beddgelert by the Aberglaslyn Pass ?


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« Reply #2912 on: August 11, 2013, 11:20:00 pm »
            No Hugo, it's not there either. The footpath is also a cycle-path and the bridge is only a couple of miles from an important North Wales town.
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« Reply #2913 on: August 11, 2013, 11:28:14 pm »
Looks like the old Penrhyn Quarry railway near Porth Penrhyn, Bangor.
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« Reply #2914 on: August 12, 2013, 07:00:49 am »
                      No sorry M.E, but you are getting warmer! The bridge still carries the tracks of a disused B.R line, is  very near a leading N.Wales town, and also a nature reserve.
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« Reply #2915 on: August 12, 2013, 07:21:34 am »
Another try after hours of research - Old railway bridge over Afon Cefni in The Dingle, Llangefni, Ynys Mon.    $walesflag$
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« Reply #2916 on: August 12, 2013, 09:42:18 am »
                Well done Yorkie, your "hours of research" have paid off! The bridge carried the old Anglesey Central Railway, which closed to passengers in 1964, but carried on with occasional freight traffic to Amlwch until 1993. It is unusual in that the lines and sleepers are still there and there are rumours of plans to reopen it, but the estimated cost is alleged to be around £25m. The Dingle nature reserve in Llangefni is a nice relaxing walk and takes you out upriver to Llyn Cefni reservoir and the forestry beyond. I've posted a few pics in case anyone hasn't seen it before.
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2917 on: August 12, 2013, 11:51:30 am »
Interesting! Could be a good preserved line.
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« Reply #2918 on: August 12, 2013, 12:23:32 pm »
That looks like an interesting walk too.  I had heard rumours about a railway line reopening going to Amlwch but have heard no more about it.

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« Reply #2919 on: August 12, 2013, 06:03:45 pm »
That looks like an interesting walk too.

You'd have to wear platform shoes to walk that route Hugo.  8)

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2920 on: August 13, 2013, 06:57:32 pm »
Where is this statue and what does it commemorate?

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« Reply #2921 on: August 13, 2013, 07:21:03 pm »
It's the statue of Fryderyk  Chopin in Deansgate  but is it to commemorate his visit to Manchester in 1848?

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2922 on: August 13, 2013, 07:22:15 pm »
I recognized the buildings as Manchester city centre.

Have not walked/ran through Deansgate in years.

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #2923 on: August 13, 2013, 07:24:06 pm »
And me!

He visited Manchester in the year before his death at the early age of 39.
On Monday, August 28th, 1848, a gravely ill Fryderyk Chopin gave
a Gala Concert before a rapturous audience of 1200
at the Gentlemen’s Concert Hall, which was situated at the corner of
Peter Street and Lower Moseley Street.
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