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Title: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: Bob_Blakey on October 11, 2016, 21:29:20 4 snaps from a recent holiday.
Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: JayMac on October 11, 2016, 21:42:00 2. Katoomba Scenic Railway, Scenic World, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
The worlds steepest railway apparently. It's on my bucket list. Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: Western Pathfinder on October 11, 2016, 22:31:23 Good lord that was quick BNM are you sure that Bob didn't send you a postcard :D
Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: JayMac on October 11, 2016, 22:59:40 Good lord that was quick BNM are you sure that Bob didn't send you a postcard :D After my recently posted pictures of Babbacombe Cliff Railway I did some online reading about funicular railway facts and figures. One I read about was the Katoomba Scenic Railway. Pure coincidence that Bob_Blakey posted a picture of it so soon after I'd read up on it. ;D Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: Bob_Blakey on October 12, 2016, 09:21:50 2. Correct, BNM...and I would very strongly suggest that anybody with an interest in the natural world adds the Blue Mountains to their 'bucket list' forthwith; the scenery is breathtaking - I would describe it as a miniaturised version of the Grand Canyon with trees.
Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: PhilWakely on October 12, 2016, 10:36:35 4. Kuranda, Queensland, Australia.
Another tourist absolute 'Must do' as a day trip from Cairns, but if you had a few days, I would recommend taking the Savannahlander train from Cairns through Kuranda and onwards into the Interior to Forsayth - a truly 'quaint' rail experience. Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: Bob_Blakey on October 12, 2016, 11:08:28 4. Also correct, PW. We used the train outbound and returned on the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway.
Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: PhilWakely on October 12, 2016, 11:23:59 1. From memory and without recourse to the good old interwebby thing, this looks like Sydney Central station ?
Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: Bob_Blakey on October 12, 2016, 13:03:25 1. It looks like Sydney Central because it is.
Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: PhilWakely on October 12, 2016, 20:23:43 No 3 is a little more tricky ???
Complete and utter guesswork now. You have been to Melbourne, Sydney and Cairns. The line appears to be OHE, which restricts it to a small part of the eastern corridor of Oz. I will plump for Roma Street Station, Brisbane. Title: Re: Where Have I Been? - Attempt #2 Post by: Bob_Blakey on October 13, 2016, 12:40:54 3. Correct again PW, it is indeed Brisbane Roma Street. As part of our itinerary we used the NSW TrainLink Sydney Central 1441 > Brisbane Roma Street 0453 1st class sleeper and jolly good it was too; the estuarine scenery along the Hawkesbury River, Mullet Creek & Brisbane Water as far north as Gosford was superb - very reminiscent of the Devon & Cornwall drowned river valleys.
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