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Re: ODD DESTINATIONS

More of my own favourites-
    Brickworks
    Metropolitan Meat Board (Platform)
    Pig Siding (was there a platform?)
    Green Swamp Road
    Grong Grong
    Casino (north coast railway, not Sydney Light Rail)
    Mullet Creek (ferry wharf before 1st Hawkesbury Bridge opened)
    Boggabilla (and many others of similar ilk)
    Buckalong?
    Holt's Flat
    Jincumbilly?
    Jungfraujoch (Switzerland - means "Maiden's Summit"?)
    etc
Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST) <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Inspired by a recent posting to a different thread, I thought I revive the
> "TRIVIA" tradition of this n,g, with a competition for the oddest-named
> public transport destination. [To confirm with the "rules" of this n.g.,
> they should be (or have been) RAIL destinations.] My initial candidates
> (with due acknowledgement to Traction Australia Publications) are:
>
> Subiaco (Perth - tram)
> Eaglehawk (Bendigo - tram)
> Chelsea - World's End (London - bus/tram?)
> Putney - Green Man  (London - bus/tram?)
> Football (Melbourne - tram)
> Paradise (Adelaide - tram/bus/O-bahn)
> Hell (Norway - train)
> Circolare sinistre (sp?) (Milano - trolleybus) (means  "anticlockwise
> circle")
>
> Rgds
>
> Ron BESDANSKY (formerly Ron BEST)
>
>