Where Am I?

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  1. inversnecky

    inversnecky Well-Known Member

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    Is that a sort of Photoshop for TS?
     
  2. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    Hmmm... in a very basic sense, ReShade is yes... it is adding global bitmapped effects in real time; altering colours, deepening shadows (or lightening them)... blurring jagged edges etc. which is why ReShade shaders can have a negative frame rate impact. RW Enhancer however, overrides some of the game's engine procedures, and substitutes its own... such as occlusion. If you activate Occlusion in RW Enhancer, it disables the occlusion settings in game for example. Using RW Enhancer can actually improve frame rates, depending on how you set it.
     
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  3. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    Any way... WCML... Steam route... two lines.... one station. No more clues :)
     
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    JJTimothy Well-Known Member

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    I think it's Trent Valley somewhere but setting up a quick drive and looking for it seems like cheating.
     
  5. AirbourneAlex

    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    Must be Lichfield Trent Valley upper level bit then? And does using google maps to check count as cheating?
     
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  6. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    Spot on sir! Well done. Over to you.
     
  7. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    not at all. It's all problem solving. I didn't know the last one either, but the fact that it was a station on a level crossing narrowed it down... then the fact that there was a Scotrail 321 in it made me think it may be Glasgow Suburb route... then from there it was a case of tracking it down. It's more fun when you DON'T know in my opinion.
     
  8. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    It also wouldn't have helped, as I don't there's a quick drive scenario that uses the high level platform... although it may have made you realise there was one I suppose.. Any way... it's not cheating... it's solving a puzzle.
     
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  9. AirbourneAlex

    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    As long as we don't have an unfair advantage by using maps over others who aren't ;)
     
  10. AirbourneAlex

    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    This should be an easy one hopefully
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    Also to note no one has solved my difficult bonus question from post #70 yet, I'll reveal it if anyone wants to know :)
     
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  11. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    You still need to know where to look. It's not as if you can just look at a map of Britain and find it without first narrowing it down by some other means. There are 15,000 miles of track, and just under 2,600 stations in the UK... and this quiz is not even limited to the UK. Without SOME knowledge guiding you in the right direction, looking at a map won't help. All it can do is confirm an idea you must already have.
     
  12. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    Lancaster.

    You know what though... if you want, I think you should go again. Although I recognised the station right away (I'm there often).. you left the station name in on one of the lamps....

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    ....so anyone would have got this one. In all fairness... Go again. I don't think anyone will object.
     
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  13. AirbourneAlex

    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    I will admit I didn't notice that lamp without zooming in, and at this point I'm dredging out old screenshots on my hard disc that would be suitable.

    Again quite easy so whoever gets this please post another picture until I get time to take some new ones.
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  14. Pookeyhead

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    Hmmm... Steam route? I don't immediately recognise it. Let me think.
     
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    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    Breakthrough! Yes it's a steam route.
     
  16. Pookeyhead

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    It's a southern region route due to third rail... so Peter will probably beat me to this one.
     
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    Brockenhurst
     
  18. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    Told you.
     
  19. AirbourneAlex

    AirbourneAlex Well-Known Member

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    Yep, your go.
     
  20. 749006

    749006 Well-Known Member

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    Ok where on a DTG route is this
    Screenshot_Portsmouth Direct Line - London Waterloo to Portsmouth_50.85342--0.96757_12-00-39.jpg
     
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  21. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    I have no clue... yet.
     
  22. UP13

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    Cosham or Warblington on the PDL unless you are being sneaky and doing non-prototypical rolling stock.
     
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    749006 Well-Known Member

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    Warblington it is - I thru a prototypical train in - should have used a 4 Cig :D

    Your turn
     
  24. UP13

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    I'll try and get mine done tonight - got the kiddies bath time and bed time to do first.

    I'm glad all my years of scenario making on the PDL haven't been a complete waste of time...
     
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  25. Pookeyhead

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    Arse!.... was just loading up Portsmouth Direct to verify an idea... it wasn't Warblington though. That was a tough one if you don't use the route much.
     
  26. UP13

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    My most used route, along with it's predecessor.
     
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    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    I have them both, yes... just don't use them much. I have to admit, I have a tendency to stay "oop north" a lot. maybe I need to remedy that.
     
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    UP13 Well-Known Member

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    We all gravitate to our own areas. I grew up in NSE/SWT land.
     
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    749006 Well-Known Member

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    When i was looking for what was Brockenhurst I found it on PDL and thought it might have been obscure enough
     
  30. UP13

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    Mystery Photo.jpg
     
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    749006 Well-Known Member

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    Having looked thru my Track Atlas I'm stumped - tried some of the off the mainline bits but not found it
     
  32. mrcharliemiggins2.0

    mrcharliemiggins2.0 Well-Known Member

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    I have no clue either
     
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    Clue 1 - it is in London.
    Clue 2 - in real life it has a canopy shelter.
    Clue 3 - the locomotive and rolling stock is also a clue.
     
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    749006 Well-Known Member

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    I thought I had looked thru most of the Island platforms but the location was wrong - in a cutting or on a viaduct
    I obviously missed one.
     
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    mrcharliemiggins2.0 Well-Known Member

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    The only one that I can think of that is close to that location is Motspur Park
     
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  36. UP13

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    Not Morspur Park but you are in the right part of the country.

    Without giving it a way, Clan Line hauling the British Pullman is a clue not a red herring.
     
  37. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    Despite the clues I've no idea.
     
  38. UP13

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    I suppose if you regularly catch trains along it then the allotments are a dead give away.

    One more clue: the Belmond British Pullman (pre-covid) regularly does a circular through the Surrey Hills. Victoria, Staines, Guildford, Redhill, Victoria.

    The station is on that route, is within Greater London and it is adjacent to some allotments.
     
  39. mrcharliemiggins2.0

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    North Sheen?
     
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    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    Grrrr... it better bloody not be! I was gonna say that, but it has a canopy... then I just saw his post where he says it has a canopy in real life! Arrrrrgh! I hoe you take this in the best possible way... but I hope you're wrong LOL
     
  41. UP13

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    Ladies and gentlemen, I present out winner!
     
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    Pookeyhead Well-Known Member

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    AaaaaaarrghhhH!


    Oh well. Well done Mr Miggins.
     
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  43. UP13

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    Before anybody says not DTG, it is on the North London route. Was thinking of doing Chiswick ot Kew Bridge but they literally had no distinguishing features or scenery, at least North Sheen did. O didn't do SWT rolling stock as I thought that would make it too obvious.
     
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    I think we all agreed at some point that non DTG is fine, so long as you say that it is. You can still verify your guesses via photos on the internet.. Google earth etc.
     
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    Slightly irritating - my Track Atlas shows the station as being two separate platforms and not an Island.
     
  46. mrcharliemiggins2.0

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    Next up..
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  47. UP13

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    New Milton?
     
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    That was fast. definitely looks like it to me.
     
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    That was faster than I expected, but you are correct!
     
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  50. UP13

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    Don't know the station, but the station name has two words. Both units are 444s so I'm assuming it's SWML not PDL.
     

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