I was playing Chronophoto (a picture game) and this one cropped up. I have many, many questions, one of which, does anyone know where this is!

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1. Just some more info on [Chronophoto](https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html).

   You’re shown a picture, no info on the picture, and you have to guess the year it was taken, ranging from 1900, to 2022. It’s really good fun.

   My top score thus far is 4258 (out of 5000)

2. I would guess Weymouth.
   There used to be a train to the harbour for the ferry but they stopped running years ago, late 80’s. I used to go on holiday there as a kid.

   https://www.onlineweb.com/rail/photos/weymouth_quay_line_1985/weymouth_quay_line_1985.htm

3. 1983 I think.

4. Building in the background checks out

   20 Custom House Quay
   https://maps.app.goo.gl/7hKV7KjcRPnJoSE79

5. Looks like Seaton in Devon they used to have a tram

6. Definitely Weymouth, there are some classic videos on YouTube of the train drivers and police having to bounce cars out of the way. Whole thing just seems like a big logistical nightmare

   https://youtu.be/x6XEVvVRB_4?si=kWOwty_iArTd8UCT

7. Definitely Weymouth, a mate of mine’s dad used to run a hotel down there. To the right of this pic is the raised platform and behind it is the harbour. This was the final stop before the track ran down to the dock which used to be the ferry to the Channel Islands.

   The rail line used to run all the way along the harbour side to where the train station is now, and another line ran from there to Portland. That line is now the Rodwell Trail, which is one of the many public walkways that came about as a result of the Beeching cuts.

8. Thanks for letting us know about this site, it’s awesome!

9. My first thought Weymouth.

10. Weymouth

11. Weymouth. 100%. Lived there for years.

12. Yep looks to be Weymouth

    https://youtu.be/x6XEVvVRB_4?si=jX1LKH1U_3WEWVmk

13. It crazy to know that cars were allowed to park on those roads through Weymouth.

14. U should put that on the subredit cantparktheremate

15. Weymouth and the train to the harbour. I took it in the early 80s, when the Jersey ferries still ran there.

16. Weymouth for sure.

17. Is that elvis?!

18. That’s the boat train in Weymouth. I went on it in the 80s. It pulls right up to the docks for the channel island ferry.

19. 100% Weymouth.

    I live here and was just feeling incredibly nostalgic when I saw this. Bloody hell.

20. After a while, the train had someone walking in front of it in high bus for this particular reason…

21. Commercial Road in Weymouth

22. That takes me back! I have spent a lot of time in Weymouth over my lifetime as it’s a family home town – my grandparents met on Portland, a great-great-uncle is on the war memorial, etc – and I’d almost completely forgotten about this train.

    I was last there in September. I’m one decent lottery win away from moving there tomorrow, I think.

23. Yeah that’s definitely Weymouth, I remember those trains passing through in the late 80s and early 90s.

24. Great fun . 👍👍👍

25. This will cause confusion AND delay.