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« on: September 26, 2021, 18:23:35 »

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These are rather easy - just one each, please!
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« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2021, 18:39:09 »

5. No specific suggestions, but the very short platform makes me think of the Heart of Wales line.
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2021, 18:39:55 »

4. Melksham?
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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2021, 18:50:45 »

1. Trowbridge
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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2021, 18:59:48 »

3 --Kingswear
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2021, 19:01:04 »

3. Snives  (St Ives)
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2021, 19:08:15 »

3. Snives  (St Ives)

1. Trowbridge

4. Melksham?


All 3 correct.  5 may make you think of Wales, but it isn't  Grin


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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2021, 21:27:01 »

2 Truro?
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5. Beauly
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« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2021, 22:29:22 »

5. Beauly

Yes - and at 2cm shorter than Cononbridge said to be the shortest public platform on the network!

2 Truro?

Also correct ... and that's all five completed.   I have five more - though one or two may not be quite as they seem, and most are exceedingly easy!


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« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2021, 22:38:34 »

8.  Canfranc?
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« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2021, 22:43:37 »

9. Euston
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« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2021, 23:22:08 »

6.  The daggerboards look to have been trimmed over the trains.  Have trains got bigger since steam days?  I suppose I ought to say Basingstoke.
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« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2021, 00:00:46 »

10. I'm pretty sure is Newport, with that shiny new spaceship looking a lot less new and shiny from platform level. But where the "before" picture is I've no idea, other than not the same place and not the same direction.
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« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2021, 01:53:52 »

8.  Canfranc?

I believe so. Never been there, but it featured in a fairly recent TV (Thames Valley, or TeleVision, depending on context) series, "abandoned engineering" I think.
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