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Title: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 14, 2020, 08:09:36 Can you place these? Country is enough - if you can be more specific, that's welcome
One each for the first 24 hours ... then free range is any are left after that Once a country has been identified, in most cases I have links you can follow to read more about it 1. Jokioisten Museorautatie, Finland - rogerw see ((here)) (https://www.facebook.com/museorautatie/photos/a.10150173761311052/10158459841231052/) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_01.jpg) 2. Alderney - BobM see ((here)) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di9dHO4xIJw) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_02.jpg) 3. - Uyuni, Bolivia. Cementerio de Trenes. Bradshaw then Bob Blakey see ((here)) (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/great-train-graveyard) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_03.jpg) 4. Eire/Ireland - Listowel and Ballybunion Railway - Oxenhutch see ((here)) (https://ifiplayer.ie/along-the-line/) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_04.jpg) 5. Canada - eightonedee St. John's, Newfoundland - Oxonhutch my own picture (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_05.jpg) 6. USA (Penn Central, New York) - Thatcham Crossing my own picture (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_06.jpg) 7. France - Froome Callac - Lee see ((here)) (https://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/callac-5058/photos-train-station-callac-1084.htm) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_07.jpg) 8. northern Spain between Oviedo and Llanes - stuving See ((here)) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfe_Feve#/media/File:2903Villa.JPG) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_08.jpg) 9. Byron Bay Solar Railway Australia - Western Pathfinder see ((here)) (https://www.multi-rail.com/news/australia-train-completely-solar-energy-powered/) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_09.jpg) 10. Darjeeling, India - eightf48544 see ((here)) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpoQO9ggzC4) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_10.jpg) 11. England - CyclingSid Taunton - bignosemac See ((here)) (https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/15361645.taunton-model-engineers-set-to-leave-tauntons-vivary-park-and-queen-elizabeth-ii-playing-fields-in-creech-st-michael/) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_11.jpg) 12. South Africa - stuving Bellville station on the Wellington line. See ((here)) (http://randomrailwayimages.blogspot.com/2012/08/2012-03-27-unidentified-function-unit.html) (http://www.wellho.net/pix/iq202004_12.jpg) Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: bradshaw on April 14, 2020, 08:16:32 3. Uyuni, in southwestern Bolivia, left there when the mining industry collapsed c1950
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: froome on April 14, 2020, 08:17:04 Well 7 must be France (unless that train has slipped over a border somewhere). I have spent many hours waiting for trains at stations that looked just like that.
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: Bob_Blakey on April 14, 2020, 08:20:23 3. Uyuni, Bolivia. Cementerio de Trenes. Featured last week on a rerun of an episode of Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railway Journeys.
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: Oxonhutch on April 14, 2020, 08:20:55 4. Eire/Ireland - Listowel and Ballybunion Railway
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: Western Pathfinder on April 14, 2020, 08:21:46 No9 Byron Bay Solar Railway Australia .
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: Thatcham Crossing on April 14, 2020, 08:28:14 Quote 3. Uyuni, Bolivia. Cementerio de Trenes. Featured last week on a rerun of an episode of Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railway Journeys. Was also featured in "Race across the World" on BBC2 the weekend before last. A wild guess for No.6 due to subterranian appearance - Penn Station, New York? Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 14, 2020, 08:33:15 All correct so far ... answers coming quicker than I can acknowledge each individually!
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: bobm on April 14, 2020, 08:43:09 Number 2. Alderney Railway, Channel Islands.
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: CyclingSid on April 14, 2020, 09:08:40 11. Reading Society of Model Engineers?
https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/ (https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/) Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 14, 2020, 09:12:01 11. Reading Society of Model Engineers? https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/ (https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/) Right country - England - but not Reading, I'm afraid. Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: rogerw on April 14, 2020, 10:06:28 1. Jokioisten Museorautatie Finland
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: Reginald25 on April 14, 2020, 10:36:21 11. Reading Society of Model Engineers? possibly New Romney?https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/ (https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/) Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: eightf48544 on April 14, 2020, 11:21:13 No. 1 New Zealand it's the sort of thing they do over there.
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: stuving on April 14, 2020, 12:10:44 8. As it says on the front, Feve (though that one doesn't also say Renfe on the side). So a funny little narrow-gauge train in northern Spain, and that image (easy enough to find) self-identifies as between Oviedo and Llanes.
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: Lee on April 14, 2020, 12:15:23 Well 7 must be France (unless that train has slipped over a border somewhere). I have spent many hours waiting for trains at stations that looked just like that. And as grahame's link shows, it's my home station of Callac ;D More photos from my own collection can be found here. (https://marleywarleysboutique.com/pages/callac-railway-station-26-february-2018) Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 14, 2020, 14:02:59 No "New Romney" nor "New Zealand" - sorry - but the rest are right in the last batch - Northern Spain, Callac and Finland.
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: eightonedee on April 14, 2020, 20:02:41 5- On the basis of assuming there would not be two pictures from the same country next to one another, but the pick up truck and Fortis sign indicate North America - somewhere in Canada?
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 14, 2020, 20:06:57 5- On the basis of assuming there would not be two pictures from the same country next to one another, but the pick up truck and Fortis sign indicate North America - somewhere in Canada? Stranger things have happened with pictures next to each other but, yes, this one is Cananada. Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 15, 2020, 09:17:34 Open House / free for all ... past the first 24 hours.
Just two countries left to identify, and just two more pictures which have a country but no place within the country set out. Edit - now all completed. See top of thread at http://www.passenger.chat/28622 for complete answers Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: Oxonhutch on April 15, 2020, 10:10:57 5: St. John's, Newfoundland
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: eightf48544 on April 15, 2020, 10:15:31 No 10 Darjeeling
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 17, 2020, 16:38:06 5: St. John's, Newfoundland Yes and No 10 Darjeeling So - "India" ;D - yes Which leaves "where in England is 11" and "where is 12?" Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: stuving on April 17, 2020, 17:02:30 Which leaves "where in England is 11" and "where is 12?" 12 is in South Africa, somewhere, but I can't find it currently in all Piet Conradies' videos. Metrorarail Cape Town? Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: JayMac on April 17, 2020, 17:45:07 Come on folks. You should know by now that grahame's picture quizzes nearly always contain a picture taken in Taunton. :P
11 is Taunton Model Engineers' (http://www.tauntonme.org.uk/) dual gauge (3.5"/5") loop line in Vivary Park. Here's bignosemac and his nephew having a ride. (http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt68/bignosemac/15871419953610_zpsadhzg1jh.jpg) Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: stuving on April 17, 2020, 18:08:12 Which leaves "where in England is 11" and "where is 12?" 12 is in South Africa, somewhere, but I can't find it currently in all Piet Conradies' videos. Metrorarail Cape Town? Found it! Listed by Piet Conradies as "unidentifed", but someone else has said it's a magnetic flux leakage OLE tester. Seen at Bellville, Cape Town to Wellington line. Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: grahame on April 17, 2020, 18:16:23 Indeed - all done and completed; I have filled in all the answers on the original picture set.
Title: Re: Around the world in a dozen pictures Post by: JayMac on April 18, 2020, 00:03:36 it's a magnetic flux leakage OLE tester. If it reaches 88mph can it time travel? :P This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |