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Question: Where shall we meet next year?  (Voting closed: December 27, 2021, 05:10:00)
1. Penrhyndeudraeth - Site of former explosives factory - 4 (7%)
2. Paddington - Location of Rainbow Train picture - 4 (7%)
3. Pwllheli - Location of modern map - 6 (10.5%)
4. Pembroke Dock - At the end of this line - 2 (3.5%)
5. Portland, Maine - A Steam Train Trip - 1 (1.8%)
6. Poole - Where this ceramic piece comes from - 5 (8.8%)
7. Portree - A Beautiful Village - 3 (5.3%)
8. Portishead - Where a railway may return - 6 (10.5%)
9. Porlock Weir - Where the bus takes you - 4 (7%)
10. Plockton - Location of historic map - 3 (5.3%)
11. Pilning - Watching the trains go by - 2 (3.5%)
12. Portway Parkway - Opening of a new station? - 2 (3.5%)
13. Paris - A European Capital - 1 (1.8%)
14. Portsoy - Trains long since gone - 1 (1.8%)
15. Penryn - A long platform, or two - 4 (7%)
16. Patney and Chirton - Only the public footpath remains - 0 (0%)
17. Pyongyang - Morning announcement - 0 (0%)
18. Phuket - Far from the railway - 0 (0%)
19. Penn Central, New York - A long way from home, under ground - 1 (1.8%)
20. Porthcawl - Day at the seaside - 1 (1.8%)
21. Peterborough - Come by train and watch trains head off to all points of the compass - 1 (1.8%)
22. Pleasure Beach, Blackpool - Rails in loops - 2 (3.5%)
23. Plym Bridge - Heritage train trip within our region - 3 (5.3%)
24. Pole (north) - The real one, or more likely the London one? - 1 (1.8%)
Total Voters: 12

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« Reply #15 on: December 24, 2021, 09:00:08 »
9 Porlock Weir to Minehead
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« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2021, 09:11:04 »
22: Blackpool Pleasure Beach
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« Reply #17 on: December 24, 2021, 10:01:23 »
11. Pilning
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« Reply #18 on: December 24, 2021, 11:01:37 »
13 - Paris (surprised no-one's picked this one off yet!)
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« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2021, 11:32:01 »
16. Patney and Chirton. *If* the Devizes Parkway station gets the go-ahead it will be just a mile down the line from here.
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« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2021, 11:33:20 »
Quote from: eightonedee on December 24, 2021, 11:01:37
13 - Paris (surprised no-one's picked this one off yet!)

Yes, it is.   None-UK▸ (United Kingdom) questions are always slow to go. What gave you the clue  Grin Grin
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« Reply #21 on: December 24, 2021, 11:59:43 »
4. Pembroke Dock branch
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« Reply #22 on: December 24, 2021, 12:34:43 »
What time does Graham eat lunch?
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« Reply #23 on: December 24, 2021, 13:03:24 »
Quote from: grahame on December 24, 2021, 00:22:14
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!)

Quote from: Oxonhutch on December 24, 2021, 12:34:43
What time does Graham eat lunch?

I am just popping into the kitchen so I can find something.
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« Reply #24 on: December 24, 2021, 13:06:31 »
2. Chippenham?
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« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2021, 13:20:42 »
24: North Pole (Junction)
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« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2021, 13:40:04 »
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RTT» (Real Time Trains - website) shows the usual 1X01 special making a circuit from North Pole International via Thurso, all stations and Wick (just dropping off coal at Naughty Kid) https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:S73184/2021-12-24/detailed
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« Reply #27 on: December 24, 2021, 15:18:21 »
14 - Portsoy station. I would say where it is near to, but it isn't.
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« Reply #28 on: December 24, 2021, 16:12:57 »
19 looks remarkably like train #3247 on new Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line, about to leave New York Penn Station for Long Branch at 1:43 pm. Unless it's late again. And not today - it's an "enhanced weekend service", whatever that might be.
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« Reply #29 on: December 24, 2021, 17:48:21 »
20 - Porthcawl station
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