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Gard du Nord train station, Paris, enroute to Brussels |
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taken by others or Pillar to Post blog photographers:
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Entering the tunnel beneath the English Channel |
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St. Pancras Train Station, London, arriving from Brussels via the English Channel Tunnel |
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Waterloo station, London, enroute to Hampton Court for an audience with Henry VIII |
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Passenger lounge Brussels Midi train station enroute to London |
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Atocha train station, Madrid, en route to Barcelona |
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Bayeux train station, gateway to Normandy and D-Day beaches |
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Amazing tile work adorns the train station, downtown, Valencia, Spain |
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Waiter aboard the late, great Elipsos TrenHotel from Barcelona to Paris, April 2013. The overnight train was sadly discontinued in the late summer 2013. C'est dommage
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