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« 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
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2. Alderney - BobM
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3. - Uyuni, Bolivia. Cementerio de Trenes. Bradshaw then Bob Blakey
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4. Eire/Ireland - Listowel and Ballybunion Railway - Oxenhutch
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5. Canada - eightonedee
St. John's, Newfoundland - Oxonhutch
my own picture


6. USA (Penn Central, New York) - Thatcham Crossing
my own picture


7. France - Froome
Callac - Lee
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8. northern Spain between Oviedo and Llanes - stuving
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9. Byron Bay Solar Railway Australia - Western Pathfinder
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10. Darjeeling, India - eightf48544
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11. England - CyclingSid
Taunton - bignosemac
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12. South Africa - stuving
Bellville station on the Wellington line.
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2020, 08:16:32 »
3. Uyuni, in southwestern Bolivia, left there when the mining industry collapsed c1950
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« Reply #2 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.
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« Reply #3 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.
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2020, 08:20:55 »
4. Eire/Ireland - Listowel and Ballybunion Railway
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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2020, 08:21:46 »
No9 Byron Bay Solar Railway Australia .
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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2020, 08:28:14 »
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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?
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« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2020, 08:33:15 »
All correct so far ... answers coming quicker than I can acknowledge each individually!
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« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2020, 08:43:09 »
Number 2. Alderney Railway, Channel Islands.
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« Reply #9 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/
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« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2020, 09:12:01 »
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11. Reading Society of Model Engineers?
https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/


Right country - England - but not Reading, I'm afraid.
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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2020, 10:06:28 »
1. Jokioisten Museorautatie Finland
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« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2020, 10:36:21 »
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11. Reading Society of Model Engineers?
https://en-gb.facebook.com/Prospect-Park-Railway-Reading-Society-of-Model-Engineers-304909433015879/

possibly New Romney?
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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2020, 11:21:13 »
No. 1 New Zealand it's the sort of thing they do over there.
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« Reply #14 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.
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