I'm hoping to get out and about in 2022 and perhaps make it to some of these places. Can you identify them, and chose your top 10 to visit?
I am letting you come back and change your vote if you wish to do so after some of the more mysterious answers have been revealed. (one solution each until lunch time please!)
1. Penrhyndeudraeth - Ellendune
"By the 1970s the factory in [redacted] supplied 90% of the explosives for the British coal industry in the form of nitroglycerine-based explosive products. The prolonged miners' strike of 1984 and the competition from foreign coal imports resulted in wholesale pit closures which, in turn, reduced the demand for mining explosives to the point where production was no longer economic and the site was finally closed in 1995 and cleared in 1997, bringing nearly 130 years of explosives production at the site to an end."
2. Paddington - brooklea
3. Pwllheli - stuving
4. Pembroke Dock - Hafren
5. Portland, Maine - brooklet
6. Poole - brooklea
7. Portree - PhilWakely
8. Portishead - johnneyw
"The track is regularly cleared to a 10 metre width to access the infrastructure along the line.GRIP▸ 3 was completed in March 2017. The report revealed an astonishing increase in cost, up to £170 million, which triggered a review of the entire project. This resulted in a simplified proposal, delivering one train per hour at a cost of £116.4 million, for which funding is fully in place and secure. The project is proceeding on that basis, but upgrading to two trains per hour can still be being carried out in the future.DCO▸ was submitted to the Planning Inspectorate in December 2019 and completed the examination stage in April 2021. Technical work continues with Network Rail and further expenditure of up to £6.1 million in 2020 and 2021 will cover legal, land, environmental and technical rail work to address questions and work required during the Planning Inspectorate's six stage DCO process.
9. Porlock Weir - bradshaw
10. Plockton - staving
11. Pilning - lympstone_commuter
12. Portway Parkway - Red Squirrel
13. Paris - eightonedee
14. Portsoy - TonyK
15. Penryn - Sulis John
"When constructing the loop a novel approach was adopted which avoided the building of a footbridge and works to the disused platform. The formerly disused northern end of the platform has been reinstated, and is now called Platform 2, and an extension has been built onto the southern end which is now called Platform 1. The middle section of the platform is now used to pass between the two. The extension and reinstatement creates a single platform of 238 metres (781 ft) in length; the southern end of the loop joins the main branch at the northern end of Platform 1. New modern shelters have been built on each platform, and the brick shelter from 1998 still exists."
16. Patney and Chirton - RA
17. Pyongyang - PhilWakely
At 6am every day, a rendition of "Where Are You, Dear General?" is played over a speaker system at the station. Some think the song may be intended as a morning alarm call for local residents.
18. Phuket - staving
There is currently no rail line to [redacted]. Trains run to [redacted] 230 km away.
19.Penn Station, New York - stuving
20.Porthcawl - RichT54
The closure came in 1963 despite the fact that the branch was still well-used, and the move was very unpopular with local businesses and residents alike. Poor ticket sales from [redacted] station itself were used to justify the closure, but the fact that most travelers bought their tickets to, rather than from [redacted] (the ticket sale therefore recorded elsewhere) was ignored.
21. Peterborough - ellendune
22. Pleasure Beach, Blackpool - OxonHutch
23. Plym Bridge - PhilWakely
24. Pole (the north one) Oxonhutch
A place in London, perhaps, or place 2660 miles north thereof?
And how about some festive railway music ...
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