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« on: December 01, 2024, 07:34:58 »
Advent Quiz - day one - 1st December 2024

Mass transit requires many vehicles - can you identify these places where there are similar vehicles "en masse"?  As a general rule for December, one guess each please during the day each question is set - you may come back with a further attempt if it turns out your first guess was wrong, and comments on those already identified very welcome indeed from all around.  Once midnight has passed, open house on any remaining questions (they will NOT all be "where is this" - there will be variety).   Today is "where is this":

0 - Poland, Red Squirrel (more detailed, anyone?)


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3. Swindon, eightonedee


4.  Shottle on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, brooklea


5. Neasden, stuving


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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2024, 08:12:47 »
3 is the Swindon "dump". I think it is just after the last broad gauge conversion,  showing redundant locomotives awaiting their fate.
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2024, 08:18:09 »
My guess for 4 would be Long Marston.
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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2024, 09:33:40 »
5 is it the Elizabeth Line store pre opening at OOC▸ (Old Oak Common (depot))
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2024, 09:41:32 »
Not sure where 0 is - presumably somewhere in Poland - but I wish I was there! Looks delicious. As an old IT hack, I very much appreciate that you started at zero too!
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2024, 09:52:47 »
3. is indeed the Swindon dump of broad gauge engines no longer able to run and awaiting the cutter's torch, and 0. is indeed in Poland (somewhere - anyone seen anything like this).  Those are the only two suggestions to date which are correct.
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« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2024, 09:55:34 »
Quote from: rogerpatenall on December 01, 2024, 09:33:40
5 is it the Elizabeth Line store pre opening at OOC▸ (Old Oak Common (depot))

Can't be - no way is it purple enough! Neasden Depot, most likely.
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« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2024, 09:57:11 »
4. Is Shottle on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2024, 19:56:21 »
Just 1, 2 and 6 remaining .... and it's anyone's guess where in Poland the pastries are, isn't it ... but remember that a magnificent display lien that ain't going to be at the equivalent of Finstock!
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« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2024, 21:00:03 »
2 looks like somewhere in USA because of the way the locomotive numbers are displayed on the angled boxes just behind the chimney.
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« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2024, 22:54:49 »
6.  Cozumel, Mexico.

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« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2024, 23:04:47 »
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on December 01, 2024, 22:54:49
6.  Cozumel, Mexico.

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Yep 'tis ... An amazing number of ships every day stop at faux Mexico!
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« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2024, 00:33:03 »
Quote from: PrestburyRoad on December 01, 2024, 21:00:03
2 looks like somewhere in USA because of the way the locomotive numbers are displayed on the angled boxes just behind the chimney.

Perhaps San Bernardino, California?   Roll Eyes
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« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2024, 19:14:46 »
1. Those are Tallinn trolleybuses, crammed into the back of the depot on Paldiski Maantee. Presumably they are ones withdrawn from service when half the remaining routes were ended 2000-2017, awaiting their fate. In Tallinn, you can tell they are trolleybuses by the colour - TLT's battery buses are turquoise, diesel ones green, and trams vermilion, with the same pattern.

While working out where they were, I did also discover that 40 new trolleybuses are now on order. However, all the old ones were withdrawn last month, apparently because they got too unreliable to persist with. Or perhaps so that the wires can be rebuilt and upgraded, and some city centre ones removed. That's for the new buses that have batteries and pickups so can charge on the move: so what colour will they be?
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« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2024, 09:01:05 »
Quote from: stuving on December 02, 2024, 19:14:46
1. Those are Tallinn trolleybuses, crammed into the back of the depot on Paldiski Maantee. Presumably they are ones withdrawn from service when half the remaining routes were ended 2000-2017, awaiting their fate. In Tallinn, you can tell they are trolleybuses by the colour - TLT's battery buses are turquoise, diesel ones green, and trams vermilion, with the same pattern.

While working out where they were, I did also discover that 40 new trolleybuses are now on order. However, all the old ones were withdrawn last month, apparently because they got too unreliable to persist with. Or perhaps so that the wires can be rebuilt and upgraded, and some city centre ones removed. That's for the new buses that have batteries and pickups so can charge on the move: so what colour will they be?

My understanding is that those are the new(er) trolley buses parked up while rewiring is being done; Tallinn is somewhere I would love to return to.
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