RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted April 6, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 6, 2013 Nome - Destination of the Iditarod (Alaska for those who are wondering) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steve1 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Denver, Colorado - the mile-high city And a very fine one too. steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Datchet - not a lot to add. Rode (wasn't Ryde before), Somerset / Wiltshire borders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Ecclefechin, somewhere over the border into North British territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Nobottle, a Northamptonshire hamlet so may be rejected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Torper Posted April 6, 2013 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted April 6, 2013 While on the subject of Hamlets Elsinore - Danish town featured in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" but more importantly has a rather fine railway station built in the same style as the Rosenborg Palace in central Copenhagen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowtim Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Ealing,West London. Has a studio.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowtim Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 (edited) Is that near Grampound Road?? Gampound Road named after the station on a proper railway Staying in Cornwall, Doublebois, near Liskeard, Station closed in 1964 Edited April 6, 2013 by kernowtim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bluebottle Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 (edited) Deri - a village in Gwent. Edit: punctuation. Edited April 6, 2013 by bluebottle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Ipswich - home of the football club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Ennis - my spiritual home town in Clare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 (edited) Eugene (OR) home of the Oregon Ducks (from the University of Oregon) and terminus of the Oregon Electric Railway from Portland in 1912. (A 'clean' hydropowered interurban before the great war.) Edited April 6, 2013 by Ozexpatriate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 (edited) It's not cheating to go twice when you didn't change the letter.Estacada (OR) - on the banks of the Clackamas River, which flows down from Olallie Butte in the Cascade mountains. Edited April 6, 2013 by Ozexpatriate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Elsinore - Danish town featured in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" but more importantly has a rather fine railway station built in the same style as the Rosenborg Palace in central CopenhagenAlso fictionally, Helsingør fires mortar shells at lucky Jack Aubrey in 'The Surgeon's Mate'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 (edited) al-Hariq - a small town in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. Edit: font won't carry accents (are you wondering what's going on, Mickey?). Edited April 7, 2013 by bluebottle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Queenstown - now known as Cobh, and the last port of call for the Titanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Nantyglo - In the County of Monmouth. During the middle of the 19th century, Nantyglo was one of the most important iron producing centres in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 (edited) Ormeau (QLD) - on the south coast line at 19m 16c from South Brisbane, it did warrant a station when the new line was rebuilt. Edited April 7, 2013 by Ozexpatriate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 (edited) Normanton There are two of them and guess how many people on a train from Leeds thought they were gonig to the other? Normanton - colliery town (former) in the west riding Normanton.... once had Barracks for the Sherwood Forester Regiment now a Pizza Hut and Multi-screen cinemaAs Yoda says "There is another." You could catch a train to Croydon from there. Edited April 7, 2013 by Ozexpatriate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sasquatch Posted April 7, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 7, 2013 Uckfield- would make a great little terminus layout if it wasn't prone to flooding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69843 Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Dunsford - Home of three lads and a man in a white suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Do Stop - Kentucky, what we may well ask? Best, Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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