Hopefully I'm not too late for this Sunday's Sunday Stamps # 164, themed 'Buses and Public Transportation', as I like a lot to travel by bus, train and tram and 'thus' love to see - and share - stamps showing public transport.
Here are some train (respectively train station) stamps which I received by postcrossing:
From Finland:
From Brazil:
From Taiwan:
From Ukraine:
From Latvia:
And one I've sent out some time ago, from the Netherlands:
By the way, the last shown I've sent to Ravindra in Sri Lanka. He is collecting postcards showing trains. And besides train postcards, he receives a lot of train stamps, too. You can enjoy marvellous stamps on his blog 'Discover the World on Trains'.
You are not too late! Welcome aboard!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI guess this theme is a favourite of yours. I like the railway stations, but I love most the last one. Railroad yards are very special places; I like to take pictures of them (but in Spain it's forbidden). How do you say "railroad yard"? In Catalan we use a word I love: 'platja de vies' which means, literally "beach of rails". Don't you like it?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYes, you're right, it's one of my favourite themes!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI already replied to your question about the Dutch translation of 'Platja de vies' (nice term indeed!), but I thought it over and still think it a little hard to translate, as we don't name (nor see) these places often in daily life, and wikipedia gives several terms, which differ a bit from each other. However, I see that in English there are different terms/yards, too :-)
Dutch: spoorweg emplacement; rangeerterrein; opstelterrein.
English (also depending on which country's English and which function / mechanism): rail yard, classification yard, marshalling yard, freight yard, sorting yards, hump yard, flat yard, gravity yard...
Pfew.... I'm glad I'm not a railroad logistics worker, there's too much specialist information for just one already-filled-brain :-)
By the way, I love to take pictures of these, too. I don't know if it's forbidden in our country - I think it isn't, but they usually are hard to approach by foot for safety reasons. And out of the train you (at least I) cannot take good-enough pictures...