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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Bump to the end!

9 years ago
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a lot of effort was put into this train, jezz...

thanks!

9 years ago
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big thanks for contributing so much and putting effort into this train.

9 years ago
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Really nice idea and great giveaways, thank you kindly.

9 years ago
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Bump for great train

9 years ago
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bamp

9 years ago
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by any chance do you draw comics?

9 years ago
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Used to, yup. My avatar is from a webcomic I used to make, in fact.

9 years ago
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that was my guess..design seemed familiar..what's the name of the comic?

9 years ago
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Role of the Die

9 years ago
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really cool, idea

9 years ago
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bump

9 years ago
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Thank you for the train trip! Entered a few one, but didn't really want to say a semi-generic thank you at each of them, hope it's not a problem with you :)

9 years ago
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No problem at all, I appreciate the time taken to comment here and saying thanks :)

9 years ago
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Bump for a nice ride :)

9 years ago
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Bumpidipibump.

9 years ago
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What a classy train ! Thanks for the marvellous and instructive trip !

9 years ago
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What a lovely trip. I do so enjoy learning about places and now I have quite a few on my to-visit list once I can start travelling the word. All the best NickN5.

9 years ago
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Yes, I actually learnt quite a lot just putting this together (which took a few hours), and it's given me the travel bug. One day...!

9 years ago
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Great idea, OP!

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9 years ago
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dwnq

9 years ago
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bump

9 years ago
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Thanks for a great train!

9 years ago
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Bump for the rare turtles.

9 years ago
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It was fun, thanks :)

9 years ago
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That was interesting :D

9 years ago
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Bump :D

9 years ago
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bump and congratulations. :)

9 years ago
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very cool train

9 years ago
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Nice history lesson, thanks.

9 years ago
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Nice stations! Great to learn new things everyday. :)

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