RAILDATE 2025.02.07

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The Weekly Poser: Where is this?

Eurostar Class 373 No. 3311. Where is it?

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Last week's Where is this?

All the features of a railway town - station, roundhouse, various workshops. Where is it?

Answer: Inverness. Congratulations are due to the following for their correct answers: Richard Maund, Dave Goodyear, John Lacy, Colin Penfold, Phil Drake, Phil Deaves, Ian Lowe, Chris Gibbard, David Bromley, Andrew Treves, Andy Foster, Paul Hopper, Simon Wass, Michael Willsher, Mike Rapp, Bob Hart, Chris Neale, Jeremy Harrison, Blair Robinson, John Musselwhite, Tony Hall, Jim Allwood, Tony Harker, Hugh Gillies-Smith, Richard Weller, Neil Spencer, Bernard Gudgin, Peter Tisdale, Chris Callaghan, Tony Fox

The 34-road roundhouse featured a water tower that masqueraded as a triumphal arch. Initially, all locomotives passed through it but, as locos became larger, a bypass was built. It was demolished around 1962 and the rubble used to infill the turntable. The site is now a Morrisons supermarket, built 1999, whose construction led to the 1926 turntable being rediscovered and commemorated by a plaque (mounted on a prosaic bit of car park wall).

The station frontage is seen below in 1959. The statue of a Cameron Highlander is by George Edward Wade. The link takes you to an article I wrote a few years back about Wade and his work. It includes a photo of the statue being made in his Chelsea workshop.

Image credits: Ray Reed, Tom Noble. RCTS Collection.

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