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Question: How many train journeys will you make in 2025 to places of rail interest?  (Voting closed: December 31, 2024, 11:13:12)
Lots - 4 (18.2%)
Some - 9 (40.9%)
A few or very few - 6 (27.3%)
None - 1 (4.5%)
Don't know - 2 (9.1%)
Total Voters: 22

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« on: December 24, 2024, 06:33:52 »
Some of our members travel by train in the course of daily, regular or infrequent journeys to reach other places or as part of their work.   And some make use of national and international train networks to reach heritage or preserved features or mainline excursions.

Looking ahead to 2025 and travel plans. I will ask in a poll leading uo to th New Year about your general travel plans for 2025, but here to finish our 2024 advent quiz is a poll asking about your plans for rail interest travel rather than general rail travel for 2025

And here are a dozen places for you to identify - mostly my pictures - of some heritage or preserved features.

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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2024, 07:36:11 »
7. Volks railway, Brighton.

I would like to say 3 is Weymouth, but wrong rolling stock....... Grin Grin
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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2024, 08:56:32 »
11 Swanage, with the Purbeck Breezer to Poole behind
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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2024, 10:09:48 »
2: Dean Forest Railway
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« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2024, 10:28:41 »
9. Brading, IOW.
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« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2024, 10:31:30 »
8 - Rasender Roland narrow gauge railway, Rugen Island, northern Germany
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« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2024, 11:43:38 »
1: Latour-de-Carol, with a (small, yellow) train of the Ligne de Cerdagne.
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« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2024, 12:21:04 »
4. Corwen, with a rather drunken looking lamppost in the background  Cheesy
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« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2024, 08:02:37 »
3. Molli Bahn at Bad Doberan, North Germany.

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« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2024, 16:59:27 »
Posting on behalf of member DR7835

5. Nuria, Vall de Nuria Railway, Catalonia.
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« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2024, 19:25:44 »
1. Latour du Carol (French Pyrenees)
2. Lydney (Forest of Dean)
3. Bad Doberan (Germany)
4. Corwen (Wales)
5. Nuria (Spanish Pyrenees)
6. Gatwick (on the way somewhere?)
7. Brighton
8. Binz (Rugen Island, Germany)
9. Brading (Isle of Wight)
10. Raduzzo (Sicily, Italy)
11. Swanage
12. Harz (Germany)

And some other places for '25?
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« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2024, 20:15:15 »
Blimey!  Good luck with that one!



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