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WessexEclectic
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Černý Kříž ?
You picked up the extra clue, well done! Černý Kříž means Black Cross.
For completeness - regular services on the Sumava/Bohemian Forest network have been run by GWTR for some years, while the through service from Prague with a class 754 only ran for a couple of summers and now terminates at Cesky Krumlov.
For completeness - regular services on the Sumava/Bohemian Forest network have been run by GWTR for some years, while the through service from Prague with a class 754 only ran for a couple of summers and now terminates at Cesky Krumlov.
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jamesontheroad
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I was going to post something from the Czech Republic but let’s switch countries again…
yoyothehobo
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Vilnius airport
jamesontheroad
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No, afraid not.
eastwestdivide
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Väntsal on the building looks like "waiting room" in Swedish, but otherwise [shrug]
jamesontheroad
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Clue 1: this station opened in 2010.
Peterthegreat
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Umeå East/Östra
jamesontheroad
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Good guess (and I was at Umeå Ö today).
Clue 2: Both this station and Umeå Östra are in Sweden and both span dramatic level changes on either side of the tracks.
Peterthegreat
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Husum?
jamesontheroad
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Closer than Umeå!
Although Husum has no real topographical change. It’s a high level station and the track is on a viaduct above ground level.
jamesontheroad
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No, although (clue 3) my employer - Umeå Universitet - has a small satellite campus in this city.
Peterthegreat
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Örnsköldsvik?
to be to single station name Örnsköldsvik North
Peterthegreat
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Or it's actual name - Örnsköldsvik Norra.to be to single station name Örnsköldsvik North
jamesontheroad
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Correct! Although I’m being generous. You should really have specified Örnsköldsvik Central because the city now has two stations.
Örnsköldsvik had rail bus service to the main line in Mellansel until the early 1990s. When the Botniaban opened in 2010 it got service from Norrtåg and then the Norrland night trains moved in 2012. There are two tracks, numbered 11 and 12.
Most famously, the Botniaban crosses above the run off of Örnsköldsvik’s ski jump… no train in this photo but this is the best pic I have of it.
The original Örnsköldsvik railway station has been renovated but appears not to have any purpose. It now sits below the new viaduct spur from the Botniaban to the MODO pulp plant. Passenger trains turn into a tunnel south of the new station so never cross this viaduct.
Over to you @Peterthegreat
WessexEclectic
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Never thought I'd see a petrol station/roundabout at the end if a Ski jump...
jamesontheroad
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As if the double track railway with OHLE wasn’t enough to distract you. The roundabout serves the E4, Sweden’s longest north-south highway, which goes through the middle of Ö-vik.
Peterthegreat
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AFAIK the old station is used as an office building today, and it is a listed building so it can't be modified. Brick buildings are very rare in that part of Sweden.
Another fun fact about Örnsköldsvik, it is the only town in Sweden to be named after a non-royal person. And it was a candidate to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, which would have made it the northernmost host town.
Well, it's somewhere in northern Europe - the setts look vaguely ex-DDR but it's not quite Prussian. Not a clue...
Peterthegreat
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Not really in Northern Europe, never in DDR but was Prussian...
jamesontheroad
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The red Peugeot seems to have a Slovakian plate that might start SZ. SZ doesn’t seem to be a current Slovak district…
I'm guessing it's a Polish plate.
Peterthegreat
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It probably is.