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Hi All,
Just returned from a badly-needed chill-out weekend in Aberdeen (where I was born). My wife absolutely loves the place and wants us to move up there when I retire.
Well I did get the chance to do some rail photography and grouped this lot into 'Prototype for Everything':
1. Short Terminus roofs are unprototypical:
Here's 2-car unit 158701 at Inverness on an Invergordon service on 08/03/08.
2. Nobody puts a railway coach in a car park:
Mark 2e/f/g coach as restaurant extension of Carriages Hotel at Insch, Aberdeenshire on 08/03/08.
3. Only Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens is beside a railway:
So is Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens! Note disused turntable pit in bottom left and that it is recessed into the gardens 09/03/08.
4. You don't have stand-alone tunnel mouths:
Site of Schoolhill Station, Aberdeen, closed in the 1930s? and immediately north of Union Terrace Gardens 09/03/08.
And finally:
5. West Coast Railways don't operate Class 37s:
37248 at Inverness 08/03/08.
This could be the start of what could possibly the longest thread on any forum!!! I dare you all!!!!
Dave
Just returned from a badly-needed chill-out weekend in Aberdeen (where I was born). My wife absolutely loves the place and wants us to move up there when I retire.
Well I did get the chance to do some rail photography and grouped this lot into 'Prototype for Everything':
1. Short Terminus roofs are unprototypical:

Here's 2-car unit 158701 at Inverness on an Invergordon service on 08/03/08.
2. Nobody puts a railway coach in a car park:

Mark 2e/f/g coach as restaurant extension of Carriages Hotel at Insch, Aberdeenshire on 08/03/08.
3. Only Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens is beside a railway:

So is Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens! Note disused turntable pit in bottom left and that it is recessed into the gardens 09/03/08.
4. You don't have stand-alone tunnel mouths:


Site of Schoolhill Station, Aberdeen, closed in the 1930s? and immediately north of Union Terrace Gardens 09/03/08.
And finally:
5. West Coast Railways don't operate Class 37s:

37248 at Inverness 08/03/08.
This could be the start of what could possibly the longest thread on any forum!!! I dare you all!!!!
Dave