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« on: December 17, 2023, 02:34:13 »
Can you place these unusual railways?   One is gone completely, there are heritage remains of another around, there is a re-creation of part of a third and the fourth is in daily service.

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« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2023, 03:54:48 »
3. Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
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« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2023, 06:44:00 »
4. Lartigue Monorail at the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway
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« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2023, 07:40:27 »
2 is one of the Southern Railway double decked electric trains
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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2023, 08:54:07 »
1 Is the Bennie Railplane.
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« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2023, 09:20:48 »
Google streetview from the site of that experiment. The intrepid photographer seems to have left the road for a timber yard.

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« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2023, 10:18:00 »
All correct and before 9 a.m., even on a Sunday morning.  The Coffee Shop never sleeps, even when most of the passenger trains do. Society has moved on, towards a 24 hour 7 day operation ... perhaps dragging others along behind.  But that's a subject a long way from a lighter side advent quiz.
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