Where have I been?

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Our public boards have been very quiet ... and perhaps that's because things are working rather better at the moment.  But I do note oodles of likes so members are still reading.   Here's something to comment on - can you place these 10 pictures, all of which I have taken in the last 10 days

1. Tornio, Finland - Froome


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3. Bitton, England - brooklea


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5. Orestad, Denmark - stuving


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9. Rouen, France - eightonedee


10. Near the Kennet and Avon Canal, Chris from Nailsea

[brooklea]

For most “no”, but I am certain of 3, which is taken at Bitton, on the Avon Valley Railway.

[Chris from Nailsea]

10. Kennet & Avon canal (I think) 

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5. Ørestad, 2300 København.

[grahame]

For most “no”, but I am certain of 3, which is taken at Bitton, on the Avon Valley Railway.

Yes, correct

5. Ørestad, 2300 København.

Yes, correct.  Where I see a picture showing two pieces of public transport calling at the same time on a bridge I think "very nice but what a sad failure to connect either way".  In this case it does not matter as the metro over the top runs every few minutes.

10. Kennet & Avon canal (I think) 

Geographically close by, but, sorry, no.  Note lack of tow path.

[PrestburyRoad]

9. Helsinki, as a guess, from a faint recollection of Tim Dunn's excellent series on the impressive architecture of railway stations in Europe.

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9. Helsinki, as a guess, from a faint recollection of Tim Dunn's excellent series on the impressive architecture of railway stations in Europe.

It does look rather similar, but - sorry - it isn't.   There are so many grand station buildings all across Europe!

Here is my picture of Helsinki


And here is the picture in the quiz, taken very roughly a week later

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And here is the picture in the quiz, taken very roughly a week later

Of course - I thought when I saw that picture that the decorative wood framing down the sides looked familiar. I must have seen news coverage of the station's restoration in 2015-2019, which kept that framing while turning the offices behind into retail units. I was in fact in the city in 2017, but didn't get to the station (which was in any case en travaux) as top priority while passing through was the reference library.

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Of course - I thought when I saw that picture that the decorative wood framing down the sides looked familiar. I must have seen news coverage of the station's restoration in 2015-2019, which kept that framing while turning the offices behind into retail units. I was in fact in the city in 2017, but didn't get to the station (which was in any case en travaux) as top priority while passing through was the reference library.

That's a station that which we haven't named yet, but I'm sure you are very familiar with  - you identified the rather more obscure and modern Danish station of Ørestad.   An interesting story about that one, where I caught a train ...

Almost all of the trains that call at the platform I photographed from go (and it's a couple of stations up the line) to Copenhagen Central, but the one I caught was one of the exceptions - starting from the airport ("behind me" am taking the avoiding curve to(wards) Esbjerg.   Serious concern from our train manager when I showed him my InterRail pass that I wasn't on the train into Copenhagen ... and then when re-assured that I knew this and was avoiding the city that I would need to change to get to Esbjerg - the train I was on only going as far as Odense.  Further re-assurance given that I was actually headed for Odense an not beyond.

It reminded me rather of those occasions at Trowbridge where people on the northbound platform get on a train, assuming that all trains from there go to Bath and Bristol.

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9 is Rouen, I believe.

I have never been in the station itself, but when I was in the city last November, having parked the car by the river, I was surprised to see a class 66 locomotive in the "old" EWS^▸ (English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd, now known as DB Schenker Rail (UK^▸ (United Kingdom))) livery running along the shore of the Seine on the line that's between the Quai de Paris and the river. It's the second such occurrence - happened near Beziers Cap D'Agde airport many years ago too.

[grahame]

9 is Rouen, I believe.

It is - your belief is correct!

I have never been in the station itself, but when I was in the city last November, having parked the car by the river, I was surprised to see a class 66 locomotive in the "old" EWS^▸ (English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd, now known as DB Schenker Rail (UK^▸ (United Kingdom))) livery running along the shore of the Seine on the line that's between the Quai de Paris and the river. It's the second such occurrence - happened near Beziers Cap D'Agde airport many years ago too.

The line alongside the river looked hardly used last week - I wonder what it's used for.  Interestingly, during my travels in Poland I saw a couple of class 66 locos, "Freighliner" and still bearing numbers starting "66" - fleeting glimpses, no photos and on the ends of long lines of bogie open high sided wagons, also "Freightliner".  In the extremes of the country - one near the German borders and the other days later near the Lithuanian border.

[Chris from Nailsea]

10. Kennet & Avon canal (I think) 

Geographically close by, but, sorry, no.  Note lack of tow path.
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That will teach me to pay more attention in class. 

It's either the river Kennet or the river Avon, then?  Interestingly, there is more than one river Kennet, and there are several river Avons, in this country. 

[CyclingSid]

there are several river Avons

Avon in the celtic languages, Welsh etc, means river. So there are quite a lot of River Rivers.

[Mark A]

there are several river Avons

Avon in the celtic languages, Welsh etc, means river. So there are quite a lot of River Rivers.

And, in Pendle Hill, is there even a 'Hill hill hill'.

Mark

[froome]

From reading the diary of your trip, number 1 must be Tornio in the north of Finland.