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It's a preserved 1943 Madrid metro train on display at Chamartín for the centenary in 2019.

It went to Broadbeach on the Gold Coast and ran a 1.3 km loop between a hotel and a casino. The line was mothballed in 2017 due to life expired components and a lack of spare parts (a common theme with Von Roll monorails) and the train was sold in 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/broadbeach-monorail-closes-after-almost-three-decades/8224210 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-03/decommissioned-broadbeach-monorail-carriages-for-sale/101032536

Still under investigation but the woman who cooked the meal said the mushrooms were bought at a supermarket and she also ended up in hospital. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/mushroom-poisoning-leongatha-erin-patterson-police-statement/102725876

Triang Super 4 track?

This has happened before. It's easy to mistake them for edible types. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-04/two-die-from-death-cap-mushrooms/3757764

People called Romanes, they like five beers?

There aren't many sights more impressive than double headed R class at speed.

There was a layout in the pages of MR in the late 70s which did this. It was OO in the front and that new fangled Z gauge in the background. IIRC the Z gauge was a single dogbone with just one train, an Elmar class 47 and some German coaches repainted blue and grey.

Mainly the leisure market. About 75% of business travellers use Eurostar. Where else but Paris Nord? Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy has the required border control facilities and RER connections to Paris proper.

The Inner Circle was nominally complete in 1884. To say the Met and the District both operated the service is a bit of a misnomer - they were fierce rivals and regularly disrupted each other out of spite, e.g. chaining rollingstock to the track. (I could go on about this but Jago Hazzard has many more examples in his videos.) They were both forced by Act of Parliament to operate the line but in a completely ridiculous way. The Met provided the clockwise service and the District provided the anti-clockwise service. If you bought a District ticket from, say, Paddington to Baker Street you had to go the long way around!

A Colonel Stephens layout could work. Minimal track and short trains with small, ancient rolling stock.

Have the storage in the open. There are plenty of prototype examples to adapt. Goodrington, for example.

Restoration of the train line between Londonderry and Portadown is one of the main recommendations made in a new review of the railway network. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66297150

Passenger operations don't need run arounds. Look at Ian Futers' Newcastle Haymarket, Victoria Park or Oldham King Street.

I'd recommend looking through the Small Layout Scrapbook by the late Carl Arendt. Lots of ideas that can be adapted. https://www.carendt.com/category/small-layout-scrapbook/

Removable bollards are a thing...

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There was a real layout based around a combination of that and the Pilbara iron ore railways called Arid Australia. In 1996 it set a Guinness-certified world record for the longest model train, 70.2m long comprising 7 locos and 650 ore hoppers. In HO scale that represents a train 6.11 km (3.8 miles) long.

Joseph Bazalgette built the world's most advanced sewer to take human waste away from London. His great-great-grandson gave us Big Brother.

Here's an interesting one, not much track but the rest isn't just open countryside. It's still just an oval of track with only one train length visible but the focus of the layout is the above ground scenery based on Turnpike Lane. My photos don't really do justice to the magnificent model of the Charles Holden station.