Under a rapidly darkening sky, the last of the evening sunshine threatened by gathering stormclouds, a living, breathing machine, covered in polished paint with gleaming copper and brass, stood at the head of a magnificent rake of luxury teak pullman railway carriages. This train had, as yet, no destination, for it was about to embark on a magical mystery tour around the world, visiting some of the most incredible and notable railway stations in existence. Indeed, it was no ordinary train either, coming equipped with not only special aquatic floats and jet propulsion drives to enable seamless land to water transition, but rubber road wheels for areas where railway was scarce.

The passengers were equally unaware of the final stopping place for this once-in-a-lifetime voyage which would cover thousands of miles on carefully laid steel rails, through some of the world's most treacherous but beautiful terrain. All those invited simply knew that they must go, through some mysterious force compelling them to board the train.

"All aboard", bellowed the conductor, dressed in the finest cut navy blue suit, complete with gold pocket watch and gold chain, and a highly secret working timetable in his upper pocket. "All aboard who's coming aboard" he yelled, as the locomotive gave a final whistle, before breathing a sigh of steam and hissing into life. The fireman wiped his perspiring brow, leaving black marks across his face, before once again opening the firehole door and heaving more coal onto the ever hungry furnace inside. The driver consulted his watch before settling down in his seat, watching for signals, and muttering, "yes, potato sandwiches again".

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Enjoy an educational alphabetical worldwide tour of railway stations, where, on each stop, as well as learning more about each place, and not forgetting to look at the photos, you may just find the opportunity to enter a giveaway for a game starting with the same letter. Some games are luxury pullman class, others are more third-class, most are unbundled.

The train will reach its destination on Saturday 8th August, 6.00 p.m GMT.

This is to celebrate my reaching Level 5 :)

Commence your journey here (Level 2+ all games, and warning, lots of points may be needed)!

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UPDATE: I have been blown away by the huge numbers of positive and fantastic comments on this train - I did not expect it would be so popular, so, a big thanks to all of you who have kindly left comments to say how much you enjoyed it. I might struggle in future to out-do this one though!

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very insightful, thanks

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I think the only large rail station I've been in was one in Munich in 1996. Unfortunately, travelling by rails isn't really a common occurrence in the U.S., other than basic mass transit, but they don't normally have large, centralized stations.

Here's a picture of the nearest my nearest train station:

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bumpo~

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Thank you very much for the trip around the world! Good times! :)
I think the farthest station from me that I've been to and remember would probably be the train station in Munich, Germany.

And taking a cue from Sisyphus, my local rail station is actually pretty nice -- and was shown at the end of the movie Rain Man (Tom Cruise / Dustin Hoffman).

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Bump, because you didn't visit Hull.
THAT'S A GOOD THING, STAY OUT OF THIS PLACE.

9 years ago
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bump

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Bump!

9 years ago
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Thank you for the really interesting journey! and big congrats on hitting level 5! way to go XD

9 years ago
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Thanks for the trip :-)

9 years ago
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Mighty impressive train! Thank you!

9 years ago
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great trip

9 years ago
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Thanks for the awesome trip!!!

9 years ago
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wow that was awesome

9 years ago
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Thanks mate

9 years ago
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Such good descriptions!

9 years ago
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Bump

9 years ago
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Bump :3

9 years ago
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You have my congratulations on your hard-earned promotion and your magnificent locomotive.

9 years ago
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Oh wow! Nice train. Thank you :)

9 years ago
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Thanks for the train, never knew there are waterside train stations.

9 years ago
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Home station soo... BUMP!

9 years ago
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I didn't want to spam "thank you" on every GA I entered, so I'll just say "Thank you for the awesome train!" in here. :D

9 years ago
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wooot :D

9 years ago
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thanks a lot :)

9 years ago
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Thanks for the train. bumppppp

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