davemackie:
bestbooties:
OK,where’s this then?
Fallujah?
Dave.
Dave,
You’re the nearest.It’s the original Baghdad customs just north of Abu Ghraib on the way out to Fallujah where you had to park at the side of the road.This was in 1975.
davemackie:
Romania, yes, Arad no.Dave.
O.K. Dave lets give Timisoara a poke, if Gerry knows where it is then there might be some kind of a connection 
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To Ian (Bestbooties) one puzzle solved, keep them coming.
To Steve, wrong, Ian (Jaws) he only thinks that Gerry should know, try again.
Dave.
Hi Dave, I thought that you might of had more people trying to guess where the photo was taken but if they are like me and think that if that is a railway bridge then they can’t think of any high level railway lines that followed the T.I.R. road in Rumo. In fact apart from Bucherest there wasn’t that many railway lines in Romania in the eighties except the railway line that went over the bridge over The Danube from Bulgaria. The nearest large town to that bridge was Giurgiu and as I never went into the town then I will have to say Giurgiu 
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Steve, 1st clue this not a railway bridge, 2nd clue it’s on a diversion route, 3rd clue this was in the nineties, so it’s possible that you were never on it.
Dave.
davemackie:
Steve, 1st clue this not a railway bridge, 2nd clue it’s on a diversion route, 3rd clue this was in the nineties, so it’s possible that you were never on it.Dave.
Not a railway bridge Dave 
, well why didn’t you say so .I might need more than another three clues if I am going to try and get this one. I must admit when I first saw the photo I thought they have certainly cleaned up Rumania, it must of been taken after the fall of communism. So that leaves me to think that it’s a tramline in Oradea .
Hi All
No more answers to the bridge pic so we give up whats the answer ,its a boring pic anyway why did you take it ,must be the super truck in the corner ,if it was in the 90s how are most of us supposed to get it.
Roger
O.K. only one of you managed to recognize this picture, and that was Ian Powling, I did ask him not to reveal the location so that more of you might have a chance.
It’s Sebes in Romania.
Dave.
This one might be a bit easier, what country what road.
Dave.
Turkey?
Looks like the road between Aksaray and the Taurus mountains.
Turkey most prob,could be going north towards Aksaray ,there was a long stretch straight road after the place where you could buy them big cabbages and cauliflowers ,or was that before Aksaray.me brains gone. If im wrong have another idea.
Roger
HI Dave, how about Turkey: on the road that runs from Ipsala to the junction with the Kapikula / Istanbul road. There were some fair old straight stretches on that road where you could wind her up and get past the Tonkas on the hills and hope that the Polisi were not waiting over the horizon.
This reminds me of chatting with Howard Leighton one evening, when he was driving for Sandtrans on the Izmer job, because of the time limits that had been set by Leo Smith to get the job from Schenkers ( ie,four day’s uk to Izmer) he had to often use the Kapicule border crossing into Turkey as it was open twenty four hours. By taking a millitary road which went between the main kapikula/ Istanbul road and the Ipsala /Istanbul road you could save around one hundred kilometers. The only problem was that the traffic polisi often sat at the junction where the millitary road joined the Ipsala road. Just before this junction was the brow of a hill, so Howard would switch off his lights on the approach and creep forward to the brow and have a look. if the polisi were not there then he would carry on down to the cross roads and over on to the road towards Izmer. If they were their he would sit and wait for them to clear off.
On one trip south of cannakalie ferry he was caught on radar going in excess of one hundred killometers per hour , as he spoke reasonable Turkish he told the polisi that the BMC factory in Izmer was at a standstill awaiting his delivery of ■■■■■■■ engines that he had been told to get there asap. the cop swallowed his story and let him go without a fine. regards Jamie.
A Scot Lost in the Valley’s.
when did they start putting plastic marker posts up by the side of the road in the middle of turkey, could this be a red herring thrown in and been taken in southern spain.
Jamie you are spot on, this is the road from Ipsala to Tekirdag, well done.
The military road that you mentioned ran from Edirne to Kesan I used it many times, if caught a packet of Marlboro or if really unlucky 10 DM would usually solve the problem.
Now it’s time for someone else to post a new picture, come on do your best.
Dave.
Found this old cutting from the Peterborough Evening Telegraph, and thought it might be of interest.
I wonder if anyone remembers John, who sadly is no longer with us, or Barry Aspland, who took the 2nd load.
Dam
That was my other answer o well get the next one
Roger
Hi All
Here are a couple of photos from 1993 for the old gray matter test
Mackie your are barred from this one
Regards Ian
Lithuania— Latvia border■■? PERHAPS
Hiya Ian, is it Giurgiu in Romania waiting to cross into Bulgaria by any chance.
Could be Rajka leaving Hungary