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« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2024, 06:20:41 »

Can you place these artworks all at stations ... 1 each today, please.

It's no longer today - it's now tomorrow, so "open house". We have one member who's already answered who is probably raring to tell me where Jenny Agutter's picture is, and one of the picture that I suspect even stuving will find a challenge!
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« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2024, 21:02:56 »

1. Haparanda, Sweden (just).
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« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2024, 21:35:00 »

The top right corner of the artwork in number 9 bears more than a passing resemblance to the Weymouth Quay terminal building (now demolished as I recall from my last walk down there), and study of the rest of the piece suggests that it may well be at Weymouth station.
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« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2024, 21:37:04 »

1. Haparanda, Sweden (just).

Yes and that was one of that I expected to stick. Or - I wonder - had I posted similar?
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« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2024, 21:44:09 »

There have been several previous references to Haparanda on the Coffee Shop forum, grahame - most of them by you.  Wink

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« Reply #20 on: September 08, 2024, 22:29:30 »

With those antiquities in that booking hall - might 5 be Syracuse (Siracusa) Sicily?
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« Reply #21 on: September 08, 2024, 22:49:38 »

With those antiquities in that booking hall - might 5 be Syracuse (Siracusa) Sicily?

You're not far away but recalling Syracuse the city was breathtaking but the station disappointing.
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« Reply #22 on: September 08, 2024, 22:49:54 »

1. Haparanda, Sweden (just).

Yes and that was one of that I expected to stick. Or - I wonder - had I posted similar?

Yes, indeed:


Though, perhaps oddly, it was the colour that I found looked familiar.
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« Reply #23 on: September 08, 2024, 22:56:21 »

Member stuving, you continue to astound me with your encyclopedic knowledge.  Cheesy

CfN  Wink
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« Reply #24 on: September 09, 2024, 06:47:08 »

These three still not identified (though we have had discussions about 5. and 6.)

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« Reply #25 on: September 09, 2024, 07:03:55 »

6 Helston?
Local theatre group did a Railway Children show there a few weeks ago
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« Reply #26 on: September 09, 2024, 09:11:27 »

Ah..is 5 then Torre Annunziata, the station for Pompei?
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« Reply #27 on: September 09, 2024, 09:18:06 »

Time, I think, for some further clues.  No 5 is a big station which I understand is threatened with closure, which serves a major tourist "honey pot" but abysmally.  And number 6 is just up the line from one man and his dog.  No-one has even attempted number 12 which I find amazing, for that "piece" seems to me almost as iconic as the dove at Antwerp and the bear at Paddington.
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« Reply #28 on: September 09, 2024, 12:24:36 »

12. Hamburg Hauptbahnhof.
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« Reply #29 on: September 09, 2024, 16:40:23 »

5  Taormina-Giardini station, Scicily
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