Guess the City

The penguin is not what it seems.

omg! well done :-)

This is the Penguins I saw, the eyes seem to be there, thought the real mascot has a wider beak.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b2/a0/2d/b2a02d20be372a4c356b95e75e23e339--hockey-puck-pittsburgh-penguins.jpg

Nicely taken. Got. off to a good start then the trail seemed to go cold as confidence waned, until tomorrow came on in the second half and smashed it in from distance at first time of asking, nae doubt about that one

incroyable

https://i.ibb.co/CtGjRtX/christmass.png

A view for the Christmas break

Not sure why I'm thinking this looks British?

That looks like a number of atations on the Merseyrail network

there's only 67 stations :-/

It's not the first one i thought it might be

Which is St Michael's, so that narrows it down a bit

And i think Merseyrail colouring is generally yellow rather than blue

aren't the blue things a bit... overkill? are the walls protected maybe? monument?

I'd have thought it's a ramp down into a cutting

Looking again at the steps it might be a slight optical illusion and we're actually heading down towards the station building

Definitely heading downward. I don't have time at the moment, but there's this if anyone wants to take a stab at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_underground_stations_of_the_Merseyrail_network

(Sorry if that violates rules! I just think it's an interesting sub-category in and of itself, and I'm not even from the UK)

There are no rules except at Christmas when you have to wear a Santa hat

Guess the city
A station and some railings for you,
In blue
Worked my way through the list
Guess the city
And click around streetview tonight

it looks cold and rainy - does that narrow it down?

gave up looking at merseyside ones, seem to be mostly yellow rails

It's definitely England

Feel like the brick colour is a clue. Complicated, expensive eaves. Loads of trains on the schedule, has to be London surely? But I'm also getting a Sheffieldous vibe

i feel like it's London but somewhere outer based on the size, but well connected based on the departures board.

board has long names and short names on it. different directions? can't see any tube termini with names that short though, looks like only 4 or 5 letters.

Greater Manchester stations use the blue colour scheme but not finding anything as yet

Nottingham

is it?

Could be Scotland - Scotrail stations have blue all over like that. Feel like the key to this would be finding the route that fits the station name lengths on the screen, but can't be bothered with that right now.

It's destinations, I guess, not points on a route.

I bet it's Falkirk or Coatbridge Sunnyside. Something like that. If they are cities. Which they're not.

I has an instinct of Scotland when I first saw it. But my instincts usually, erm, stinc.

https://i.ibb.co/DYT8h3V/waru.jpg

Part II

Doesn't look like Scotland to me, still think Greater Manchester feels right but I've checked nearly every station

Expanding my Greater Manchester search to include non-city Stockport has come up with the goods

Davenport
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FekM5LsHLCxewRyo9

Nice

Yay! Well done!

Davenport it is

I thought it might go from the train monitor in the first image, but it's difficult to tell how clear the words are for other people (especially when you already know what they are). How things appear on my laptop screen and monitor screen is pretty different!

What made you expand to the east? The Peak District ish hill in the distance?

The second pic solidified my hunch that it was Greater Manchester, I'd been concentrating on Salford and Manchester itself but your recent trend towards towns and, yeah, the hills in the distance made me go back and check Stockport and the outer towns

So is this now officially the Guess the City or Town thread?

Fine by me!

"City" means several related things, ONLY ONE OF WHICH is along the lines of "settlement awarded so-called city status by arbitrary convention or decree within a given jurisdiction or linguistic pocket of this wide world", ffs. To me it seems entirely obvious that cities which city purists insist on calling towns should also be allowed.

Happy new year to all! I pretty much never post in this thread, but I enjoy it a lot.

Thanks for your input anatol_merklich

https://i.ibb.co/KhT5mqC/c.jpg

New Year, New City

Feels like it could be anywhere from Southern Europe to Palestine/Israel maybe?

clutching at straws here:
- no satellite dishes anywhere? They're banned in Iran, Myanmar, Turkmenistan... Don't know if that's a clue?
- maybe the fencing on the bridge over the railroad it a bit excessive? did lots of people kill themselves there or are the trains important (israeli trains through palestine for instance) (don't know why I keep thinking palestine here to be honest)
- extra lights half way up the light posts? (two of them with bike tyres over them) ?
- some of the cars are French brands but they're sold all over the world, aren't they.

Those garbage bins look distinctive. Perhaps designed for a particular type of fully automatic garbage truck? Not sure how to search for that though.

is that a flag hanging from top floor left, partially behind the pole? or just washing?

blue white red, more? france, holland, paraguay?

This seems to be the dumpster, of Chinese manufacture:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32346664174.html

Not sure what "hot sold in Middle East" means? Perhaps a mistranslation of a "hot seller in the Middle East"?

the train line doesn't look like middle east to me.