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Your pictures: Railways

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image copyrightShashank Peshawaria
image captionEach week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "railways", and we begin with this picture by Shashank Peshawaria on a train from Taunton to Minehead, Somerset.
image copyrightMichael Ward-Sale
image captionMichael Ward-Sale: "This picture shows a steam loco under full power, at speed, crossing the water meadows, in Lewes, East Sussex."
image copyrightAndy Beckett
image captionAndy Beckett: "Taking a break and enjoying the view."
image copyrightJuan Villarreal
image captionJuan Villarreal: "The tourist train leaving from Bogota is decorated at Christmas."
image copyrightLynka Belanger
image captionLynka Belanger: "When we think of railways, we imagine iron and steel structures far from the delicate plants used by the Montreal Botanical Garden in this Mosaiculture display."
image copyrightTony Abbitt
image captionTony Abbitt: "The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch railway is a narrow-gauge railway running between Hythe and Dungeness in Kent providing a regular service all year round."
image copyrightMartyn Tattam
image captionMartyn Tattam: "The last goodbye. All six remaining A4 Pacifics stand on the pad at the National Railway Museum, Shildon, [County Durham,] before the two expat A4's go back to America and Canada."
image copyrightPremraj MC
image captionPremraj MC sent in this image showing a commuter waiting for his stop on a train in Bangalore, India.
image copyrightUte Wiehler
image captionUte Wiehler: "Travelling in Niassa Province, northern Mozambique, on a bad dirt road, crossing the railway tracks at least 55 times in three hours, many railway signs - but I never actually saw a train."
image copyrightmd fakrul islam
image captionFakrul Islam: "Huge rush on railways during a religious festival at the airport rail station in Dhaka, Bangladesh."
image copyrightEmma Crombie
image captionEmma Crombie: "A Metropolitan Line train leaves Barbican station off into the night. For me it is the red lights and bright white lights that really make the photo special. Plus the symmetry of the two commuters on either side of the tracks. My favourite aspect is that I took it purely on a whim as I was walking home."
image copyrightEddie Dodd
image captionAnd finally, a photograph by Eddie Dodd of a teddy bear waiting on a platform to go on a journey. The next theme is "summer", and the deadline for your entries is 2 September. If you would like to enter, send your pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk. Further details and terms can be found by following the link below this gallery.

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