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There is a good hint in the picture.

You’re good at it!

Is it a google maps picture?

Nope, but you can find the location from this angle on Google maps. I didn’t take the Google maps picture, since it would not contain the hint that this one has.

It’s clear what country it is, but darned if I can see how to narrow it down from there!

So - I got high hopes thinking I narrowed it down to a rail bridge somewhere on Shikoku island, Japan.

However, darned if I can find a matching bridges…

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You’re not far off, but it’s not Shikoku :slight_smile:

Yeah I just expanded the logo and see it is probably JR West!

Smaller, the logo looked lighter blue!

On the right - that has to be Japan.

On the train: JR logo.

… and now that we look closely, maybe it is the dark blue of JR West.

… but 'cmon there’s miles and miles of gorges with bridges on Kyushu. What do we have to figure out which!?

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I suppose there are not so many bridges with a railway platform on it. Next to the second traincar from the right there is a sign that tells the train is on platform 1.

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Man, the whole island is non stop rail bridges and stations!

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I found a map of all stations in JR-West:

Yeah, I found that too. I realise Kyushu is served by JR West, but is possibly not the right answer because it also has it’s own JR Kyushu.

But that doesn’t help much: have you counted the number of stations in there :wink:

“These lines together comprise 610 km of track, have 245 stations” … thats a lot of hunting without more of a clue :smiley:

(edit ^^ Oh, that is only the urban network … then there are the regionals…)

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@assai’s comment could be useful, but we aren’t gonna scan every one of these stations if they’re next to a tunnel, are we?

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:smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

That’s an awesome number.

And to think that a long straight road in the outback was considered too hard :wink:

Unless there are more clues we’re missing I reckon “A Japanese rail bridge” is possibly the best answer we could hope for?

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I had no idea :see_no_evil:

Ah! But it’s electrified! There are some lines that aren’t.

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I looked at all (read: most) of the pictures of JR West railway stations on Wikipedia, and none of it fit the picture.

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You lads are committed :open_mouth:

Why don’t we run an easy and a hard stream of pictures at the same time? Then you can have a cool-down whilst you search for railway stations and Brazilian road signs.

Also, for some weird reason there is barely any streetview in Germany, I just noticed.