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« Reply #30 on: September 20, 2024, 19:59:06 » |
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17. is Basel SBB - and yes, German is the (more) official language. In fact the only Swiss city that is bilingual (both languages have equal status) is Biel/Bienne, as I found out when attending a meeting there.
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« Reply #31 on: September 20, 2024, 20:16:58 » |
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7. Wernigerode - rogerw 6th Sept - Altora Eisenbahn Themenhotel Spent three days here, sandwiched between a wooden town and a forest fire, watching as the appliances of increasingly distant fire brigades swarmed past us in growing numbers. Not the most relaxing experience. Hmm. Is the recipient of what appears to be a litre stein of Guinness old enough to take receipt of it? Not a criticism - I'm very impressed at the delivery method.
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« Reply #32 on: September 21, 2024, 10:29:14 » |
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Hmm. Is the recipient of what appears to be a litre stein of Guinness old enough to take receipt of it? Not a criticism - I'm very impressed at the delivery method. One assumes that, looking at the picture, the person for whom the stein is for is not in a position to pick it off the truck (there appears to be a barrier in the way) and is also probably not wishing to multi-task (take a picture as well as taking delivery)
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« Reply #33 on: September 21, 2024, 10:54:01 » |
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8 is a station on the Harz system, heading out from Wernigerode
It is. Thanks to the fire, we only made it as far as Drei Annen Hohne, a bit further up the hill, but nonetheless we had a good morning out. Maybe we'll go back one day, when things are a bit less incendiary.
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« Reply #34 on: September 21, 2024, 11:06:55 » |
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7. Wernigerode - rogerw 6th Sept - Altora Eisenbahn Themenhotel Spent three days here, sandwiched between a wooden town and a forest fire, watching as the appliances of increasingly distant fire brigades swarmed past us in growing numbers. Not the most relaxing experience. Hmm. Is the recipient of what appears to be a litre stein of Guinness old enough to take receipt of it? Not a criticism - I'm very impressed at the delivery method. They are, in fact, 18. But they don't drink alcohol, and apparently have no interest in doing so!
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« Reply #35 on: September 22, 2024, 16:20:03 » |
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I thought no. 3 should be amenable to a bit of deduction, based on the pictures being sequential. It's a German train and a Dutch locomotive, so presumably it's where you go from Utrecht to catch a train to Berlin via Bad Bentheim. That suggests a limited number of places, but the closest is Amersfoort - which looked quite likely. But none of the images I could find looked like that platform, until subjected to minute examination. But Amersfoort it is.
That's borderline embarrassing, since I've been there not only to change trains but to attend a two-day meeting in the building that forms the northern side of the station! We were even in a room overlooking the station (though obviously busy doing something serious, not watching the trains). But I would not reckon to remember visually a place from over ten years ago, and this station doesn't show a lot of stylistic unity.
As for no. 14 ... by the same logic, it's where you change trains on the way from Schönefeld to Dresden - but as there are several direct trains per day, I've no idea.
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« Reply #36 on: September 22, 2024, 19:37:58 » |
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I thought no. 3 should be amenable to a bit of deduction, based on the pictures being sequential. It's a German train and a Dutch locomotive, so presumably it's where you go from Utrecht to catch a train to Berlin via Bad Bentheim. That suggests a limited number of places, but the closest is Amersfoort - which looked quite likely. But none of the images I could find looked like that platform, until subjected to minute examination. But Amersfoort it is.
Ah, Amersfoort, Bad Bentheim and Utrecht....all names that conjure up memories of annual trips on the now non existent Holland-Scandinavian Express between Hoek Van Holland and Hamburg right up to my early teens. So long ago now that nothing clicked with me.
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« Reply #37 on: September 23, 2024, 15:07:13 » |
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I thought no. 3 should be amenable to a bit of deduction, based on the pictures being sequential. It's a German train and a Dutch locomotive, so presumably it's where you go from Utrecht to catch a train to Berlin via Bad Bentheim. That suggests a limited number of places, but the closest is Amersfoort - which looked quite likely. But none of the images I could find looked like that platform, until subjected to minute examination. But Amersfoort it is.
That's borderline embarrassing, since I've been there not only to change trains but to attend a two-day meeting in the building that forms the northern side of the station! We were even in a room overlooking the station (though obviously busy doing something serious, not watching the trains). But I would not reckon to remember visually a place from over ten years ago, and this station doesn't show a lot of stylistic unity.
As for no. 14 ... by the same logic, it's where you change trains on the way from Schönefeld to Dresden - but as there are several direct trains per day, I've no idea.
Yes, 3 is Amersfoort Centraal. 14 will prove more tricky - it's a suburban station near where we stayed, so not an interchange...
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« Reply #38 on: October 25, 2024, 11:34:06 » |
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For completeness, I will now disclose the thrilling information you've all be on tenterhooks waiting for (!) 14. Bischofsplatz (Dresden S-Bahn line S1)
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