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Appears to be a non-notable town. Possibly a ghost town or a hoax as the location the coordinates take me to is just a random piece of African land by a river with no signs of any sort of civilization. ―
Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654516:44, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
comment - Mmm. Well something has gone wrong here - I agree that there doesn't seem to be anything near the given coordinates based on the satellite images. On the other hand, our colleagues at
wiki Masry have a more extensive page including photos of the train, so it seems that they think there is something there. Might be helpful to find someone who can read their page to assist.
JMWt (
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17:07, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I saw those images when I googled it which confused me since the coordinates don't show anything and looking up the town on Google Maps goes to the exact same location. ―
Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654518:47, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment - looking back through my photos that I took in 2008, there's a station there (see Google satellite view
here) but not much else. There were some rough shacks at the station. The only citable information I can find is in Eritrean Narrow Gauge An Amazing Reinstatement by Don Mitchell (Middleton Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-906008-38-3), photo 1.38 which describes Baresa as "a busy place where local activity is manifest." So all I can say is that there is something there, so it's not a hoax, but it's hardly a town either. Perhaps calling it a settlement would be better if the article is kept. I'm not going to !vote either way. —
Voice of
Clam18:01, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
The only issue I still see would be the coords. The place they go doesn't indicate there's anything there and there's nothing around other than a railroad it appears. I'm unable to view the ref but everything else I'm finding is just a name drop. If more sources can be found and the coordinates corrected than that's fine. ―
Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654520:19, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
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Appears to be a non-notable town. Possibly a ghost town or a hoax as the location the coordinates take me to is just a random piece of African land by a river with no signs of any sort of civilization. ―
Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654516:44, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
comment - Mmm. Well something has gone wrong here - I agree that there doesn't seem to be anything near the given coordinates based on the satellite images. On the other hand, our colleagues at
wiki Masry have a more extensive page including photos of the train, so it seems that they think there is something there. Might be helpful to find someone who can read their page to assist.
JMWt (
talk)
17:07, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
I saw those images when I googled it which confused me since the coordinates don't show anything and looking up the town on Google Maps goes to the exact same location. ―
Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654518:47, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment - looking back through my photos that I took in 2008, there's a station there (see Google satellite view
here) but not much else. There were some rough shacks at the station. The only citable information I can find is in Eritrean Narrow Gauge An Amazing Reinstatement by Don Mitchell (Middleton Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-906008-38-3), photo 1.38 which describes Baresa as "a busy place where local activity is manifest." So all I can say is that there is something there, so it's not a hoax, but it's hardly a town either. Perhaps calling it a settlement would be better if the article is kept. I'm not going to !vote either way. —
Voice of
Clam18:01, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
The only issue I still see would be the coords. The place they go doesn't indicate there's anything there and there's nothing around other than a railroad it appears. I'm unable to view the ref but everything else I'm finding is just a name drop. If more sources can be found and the coordinates corrected than that's fine. ―
Blaze WolfTalkBlaze Wolf#654520:19, 20 December 2022 (UTC)reply
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