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« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2018, 06:38:51 »
Quote from: stuving on May 22, 2018, 00:41:34
Given that many clues ... I can find a picture of the station in 2. at Salisbury, Adelaide. The train might be in Adelaide too, though not on that line and not in that livery, which does belong a long way away.

Multiple clues suggest to me that No. 1 is near Perth, Western Australia - with "near" being in Aussie distances; the TransWA Network stretches 400 miles to Kalgoorie.
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« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2018, 06:57:14 »
Quote from: grahame on May 22, 2018, 06:38:51
Quote from: stuving on May 22, 2018, 00:41:34
Given that many clues ... I can find a picture of the station in 2. at Salisbury, Adelaide. The train might be in Adelaide too, though not on that line and not in that livery, which does belong a long way away.

Multiple clues suggest to me that No. 1 is near Perth, Western Australia - with "near" being in Aussie distances; the TransWA Network stretches 400 miles to Kalgoorie.
Close enough. It is actually in the Perth suburb of Warwick, between the carriageways of the Mitchell Freeway from my touring coach, enroute for Darwin via Exmouth and ultimately to The Ghan to Adelaide.
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« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2018, 19:58:01 »
No prizes for guessing where this was taken Grin
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« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2018, 01:13:37 »
Yes, that's all very well - but what about the trackside trespasser in the foreground?  Why don't they have fencing to keep the types of him out ??  Shocked Roll Eyes Grin
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« Reply #19 on: May 23, 2018, 06:22:22 »
He should have been there a couple of minutes later, so that he could be told by an emigrant Cockney, 'trine's ghan, cobber'! Huh
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« Reply #20 on: May 23, 2018, 08:56:25 »
Quote from: PhilWakely on May 22, 2018, 19:58:01
No prizes for guessing where this was taken Grin
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Very economical with the ballast those Aussies.
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« Reply #21 on: May 23, 2018, 10:15:20 »
Quote from: PhilWakely on May 22, 2018, 19:58:01
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Taunton?
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