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The variety that is rail travel.
19.7.2025 (Saturday) 10:45 - All running AOK
 
The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by grahame at 19:13, 18th July 2025
 
These are all pictures I have taken personally in fairly recent travels, none of which has involved a private (or hire) car journey or a flight - all bar 1 by public transport to and from home.  The vast majority (perhaps 20 out of the 24) are at locations that can be reached with Interrail / Eurail passes, though as a UK resident I would probably not visit many of the British ones and waste a precious inbound / outbound day on that.

Only 2 of these pictures were taken in the same town.

For Coffee Shop members - the suggestion as usual is that you identify one picture each in the first 24 hours to give others a chance as usual - however, I'm going to relax that and say if you would like to identify more of the overseas ones in a batch, I will not object - I have tried to avoid the hardest of the hard, but some will stick!

1. Metz, France - Chris from Nailsea


2. Taunton - Chris from Nailsea


3.


4. West Ealing - stuving


5.


6.


7.


8.


9.


10. Reykjavík - Chris from Nailsea


11. Beauly - Mark A


12. Metz - Merthyr Imp


13.


14.


15. Bodmin Parkway - PhilWakely


16.


17.


18.


19.


20. Somewhere on the Molibahn - eightonedee


21.


22.


23.


24. Strasbourg, France - JayMac

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by PhilWakely at 19:31, 18th July 2025
 
15. Bodmin Road Parkway

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Mark A at 19:37, 18th July 2025
 
11 has Beauly vibes.

Mark

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:10, 18th July 2025
 
Ahem. 

2.  Taunton. 

CfN. 

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by JayMac at 21:16, 18th July 2025
 
Ahem. 

2.  Taunton. 

CfN. 

Bravo! Well done! Congratulations! 

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by JayMac at 21:20, 18th July 2025
 
24. Gare de Strasbourg-Ville, Strasbourg, France.

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 21:52, 18th July 2025
 
I will now push my luck a bit, moving into Europe, and nominate 1. as Metz, in France.

This tribute commemorates Jean Moulin, a significant figure of the French Resistance during World War II, who died in Metz on 8 July 1943.

The sculptures featured in the image are part of this tribute and were created by the German artist Stephan Balkenhol.

The ceremony and the permanent exhibition at the Metz station serve as a reminder of his role in unifying the French Resistance and his ultimate sacrifice.

My sister has effectively become a Frenchwoman, having married a Frenchman - whose family history is absolutely fascinating. She now lives in northern France, where the French Resistance were most active.

CfN. 

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by grahame at 21:57, 18th July 2025
 
I will now push my luck a bit, moving into Europe, and nominate 1. as Metz, in France.

This tribute commemorates Jean Moulin...

You are correct ... and thank you for the further data which tells me much more than I knew from my brief visit

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by stuving at 22:04, 18th July 2025
 
4. West Ealing platform 5.

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Merthyr Imp at 22:16, 18th July 2025
 
Is 12 also Metz?

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:19, 18th July 2025
 
Yes, it is: darn, I missed with that second barrel. 

CfN. 

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by grahame at 22:26, 18th July 2025
 
Is 12 also Metz?


Yes, it is: darn, I missed with that second barrel. 

CfN. 

Yes - and the more difficult question - "is that a tram"?

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 22:35, 18th July 2025
 
No: it's a flexibus, running on tyres on cobblestones, not on any rails. That's not a tram. 

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by eightonedee at 22:56, 18th July 2025
 
20 looks like the Molli Bahn, Mecklenburg, Getmany - if so, I'd guess at Bad Doberan ⁷

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 01:07, 19th July 2025
 
As we are now past midnight, I'm going to post a further suggestion -

10.  Minør, at Reykjavík, Iceland.

To be fair, we have discussed this before on the Coffee Shop forum. 


Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by grahame at 06:33, 19th July 2025
 
20 looks like the Molli Bahn, Mecklenburg, Getmany - if so, I'd guess at Bad Doberan ⁷

It is the Mollibahn - though not at Bad Doberan.

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by grahame at 07:00, 19th July 2025
 
Correctly identified so far ...

1. Metz, France - Chris from Nailsea
2. Taunton - Chris from Nailsea
4. West Ealing - stuving
10. Reykjavík, Iceland - Chris from Nailsea
11. Beauly - Mark A
12. Metz - Merthyr Imp
15. Bodmin Parkway - PhilWakely
20. Somewhere on the Mollibahn, Germany - eightonedee
24. Strasbourg, France - JayMac

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by Oxonhutch at 08:49, 19th July 2025
 
3. Has to be Melksham 

Re: The variety that is rail travel.
Posted by grahame at 08:54, 19th July 2025
 
3. Has to be Melksham 

Indeed - and it is the one I did NOT use public transport to reach in order to photograph. I walked.

 
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