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Title: AQ23 - 17th December. Some oddities Post by: grahame on December 17, 2023, 02:34:13 Can you place these unusual railways? One is gone completely, there are heritage remains of another around, there is a re-creation of part of a third and the fourth is in daily service.
1. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_odd1.jpg) 2. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_odd2.jpg) 3. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_odd3.jpg) 4. (http://www.wellho.net/pix/aq23_odd4.jpg) Title: Re: AQ23 - 17th December. Some oddities Post by: JayMac on December 17, 2023, 03:54:48 3. Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
Title: Re: AQ23 - 17th December. Some oddities Post by: lympstone_commuter on December 17, 2023, 06:44:00 4. Lartigue Monorail at the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway
Title: Re: AQ23 - 17th December. Some oddities Post by: eightonedee on December 17, 2023, 07:40:27 2 is one of the Southern Railway double decked electric trains
Title: Re: AQ23 - 17th December. Some oddities Post by: Western Pathfinder on December 17, 2023, 08:54:07 1 Is the Bennie Railplane.
Title: Re: AQ23 - 17th December. Some oddities Post by: Mark A on December 17, 2023, 09:20:48 Google streetview from the site of that experiment. The intrepid photographer seems to have left the road for a timber yard.
Mark https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9322316,-4.3146166,3a,60y,87.04h,100.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sELyY1z0QvlmUUSgpNd75Ng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu (https://www.google.com/maps/@55.9322316,-4.3146166,3a,60y,87.04h,100.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sELyY1z0QvlmUUSgpNd75Ng!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu) Title: Re: AQ23 - 17th December. Some oddities Post by: grahame on December 17, 2023, 10:18:00 All correct and before 9 a.m., even on a Sunday morning. The Coffee Shop never sleeps, even when most of the passenger trains do. Society has moved on, towards a 24 hour 7 day operation ... perhaps dragging others along behind. But that's a subject a long way from a lighter side advent quiz.
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