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« Reply #15 on: May 27, 2015, 19:05:48 »

No 11 might be south coast probably Dorset Lyme Regis ??.
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« Reply #16 on: May 27, 2015, 19:14:15 »

No 11 might be south coast probably Dorset Lyme Regis ??.

You have the correct country (England) but the wrong end of the country - taken in a town with a station; travelled there on rail promotion business.

Someone has to say the obvious.

I believe the edifice in 1 was designed by Alexandre Gustave Eifel. It is not a lattice bridge in Porto, so just perhaps it is a tower in Paris. 

It is indeed the Eiffel Tower - and it's also the most recent of all the pictures in my series, taken from the No. 42 bus headed for "Station of the North".
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« Reply #17 on: May 28, 2015, 22:36:59 »

12 ... is either Taunton, or Ponta Delgarda in the Azores.  I'm not convinced it's Taunton, though.  Tongue Roll Eyes Grin
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« Reply #18 on: May 28, 2015, 22:53:20 »

Could be East Reach, Taunton, before they put all the traffic lights in.
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« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2015, 05:32:25 »

12 ... is either Taunton, or Ponta Delgarda in the Azores.  I'm not convinced it's Taunton, though.  Tongue Roll Eyes Grin

It is in indeed Ponta Delgarda.
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« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2015, 11:20:20 »

No 11 might be south coast probably Dorset Lyme Regis ??.

You have the correct country (England) but the wrong end of the country - taken in a town with a station; travelled there on rail promotion business.

Then it must be Scarborough - Oh no can't be - isn't Yorkshire was a separate country!
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« Reply #21 on: May 29, 2015, 13:52:47 »

9 - Craven Arms?
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« Reply #22 on: May 29, 2015, 15:16:52 »

9 - Craven Arms?

Close, but not quite
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« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2015, 15:20:03 »

9. Llandrindod Wells
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« Reply #24 on: May 29, 2015, 15:27:36 »

9. Llandrindod Wells

Yes, putting it into another country (Wales).    A lot of the "Wells"s have been dropped, so I think it's supposed to be just "Llandrindod" these days.   Of course, if there were still a station at Wells, that would have been renamed "" by the same token and have the shortest name for a station anywhere in the world!
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« Reply #25 on: May 31, 2015, 13:16:47 »

Some clues to mop up 6,7,8?

Then I can post my prize quiz.  Cheesy
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« Reply #26 on: May 31, 2015, 13:21:56 »

No 11 might be south coast probably Dorset Lyme Regis ??.

You have the correct country (England) but the wrong end of the country - taken in a town with a station; travelled there on rail promotion business.

Then it must be Scarborough - Oh no can't be - isn't Yorkshire was a separate country!

Am I correct that 11 is Scarborough. 
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« Reply #27 on: May 31, 2015, 14:17:11 »

Am I correct that 11 is Scarborough. 

Yes, you are correct.  The country of Yorkshire

Some clues to mop up 6,7,8?

Then I can post my prize quiz.  Cheesy

All three taken on the same trip - within the first few days of the new train services starting from Melksham in December 2013.  I left the UK (United Kingdom) by a ferry on that occasion, rather tun through a tunnel or on a train, and spend about a day getting to final destination once I got to the "other side".
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« Reply #28 on: June 02, 2015, 14:25:26 »

Some clues to mop up 6,7,8?

Then I can post my prize quiz.  Cheesy

Looks like no-one's coming in this more answers and as I want to see us get onto the prize quiz, I'll mop up - Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands and the final 3 - Thun, Mannheim and Rotterdam Central.
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« Reply #29 on: June 07, 2015, 20:02:02 »

Thanks for posting yet another rather challenging set of quiz pictures, grahame.  Wink
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