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    Long or high railway bridges you can walk over

    Try Porto, Portugal. You have a choice of two bridges, Ponte de D. Maria Pia or Ponte Luis 1, very close to each other. Both attributed to Eifel, and looking very similar. Ponte de D. Maria Pia (single track) was superseded by an adjacent modern bridge in 1991 but you can walk over it. The...
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    Countries with Metre Gauge and 3 ft 6 inch Gauge networks with big loading gauges?

    Rio Turbio - Argentina. 2-10-2s on 750mm
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    Longest non-stop distance on former SR lines

    A few months ago I joined a Poole Waterloo train during a period of disruption. After a number of announcements a clearly automated voice said 'This train is non stop from Bournemouth to Waterloo '. I perked up a bit and contemplated a number of scenarios including at what speed we would pass...
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    Locomotives bricked-up inside of tunnels.

    Go South Young Man! New Zealand has numerous buried locomotives, dumped to shore up river banks near railway land when scrap values where very low. Some have been retrieved. A number of places. Google will find them.
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    Hypothetical: New Builds for particular railways?

    Seen in Jakarta 2002 - Hanomag Hanover 1913
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    Doncaster Yard Pilots

    Passed 09009 travelling north on the M3 yesterday morning
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    Class 456's on the move?

    456021/022 passed through Woking on Sunday and took the Guildford Line
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