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770014IronDuke replied to the thread 1970-1974 WCML Weaver Jct -Glasgow electrification.2 x Cl 50s over the Glasgow and South Western must have produced timings never, ever seen before. Pity I never took the chance to do...
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770014IronDuke posted the thread MiddSex & Leicestershire in Metro Bank final - can EMR run earlier trains to Nottingham? in Speculative Discussion.I see Middlesex and Leicestershire are playing at Trent Bridge in the one-day cup final on Sunday 20 September. Would seem to be a no...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Ivanhoe line (via Coalville) - potential reopening?.A little surprised this has not caused a few comments on here - perhaps everyone is a little cynical that this is only prompted by the...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Locomotive Names - What were the reasons, the logic, the effects, the value?.And The Girl Guide and The Boy Scout. they must have been getting desperate after 6167. When did they name The Royal Air Force, I...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Anybody had a train wait for them a minute or more as you ran along the platform/footbridge?.Not one that I experienced, but I remember reading, perhaps in the 1990s on the usenet group, about the former Silloth branch, which had...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Isolated, and Very Isolated, railways.Don't think anyone has mentioned the line around Eregli, in Turkey yet. It is, or was, south-west of Zonguldak, on the Black Sea coast...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Locomotive Names - What were the reasons, the logic, the effects, the value?.I wonder which one his wife thought most appropriate? :) Ah, thanks for the explanation. Mr Scott certainly had a mind for intriguing...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Experiences of travel on the Heart of Wales line..Alas, yesterday, two of the northbounds from Swansea (2M00, 2M39) failed to materialise (and hence, of course, their southbound...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread East-West Rail (EWR): is it worth it?.I'd say the trains on the Bedford - Cambridge line were about 33% filled on average in their final years. It was, essentially, a 1 train...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Locomotive Names - What were the reasons, the logic, the effects, the value?.Lol! Thanks for this. I knew next to nothing about naming policies from the late 70s onwards, except that there were some awful ones...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Experiences of travel on the Heart of Wales line..Unfortunately I'd be surprised if it was a 'reasonable' success. As I remember, the very first day the first train from Swansea was...
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770014IronDuke posted the thread Locomotive Names - What were the reasons, the logic, the effects, the value? in Memorabilia, Media & Publications.<NB – This thread is not meant to be about the modern prices/monetary values of locomotive nameplates and other railwayana. There is...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Chasing the Waverley steam special - questions.I have no running experience with steam over the S&C, but I would imagine that once 'over the top' it is very easy for the train to...
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Settle and Carlisle Line.Wow. Hope the trains were not too cosy then!
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770014IronDuke replied to the thread Heart of Wales Diagrams and Timetables during Royal Welsh Show.Either that, or simply not schedule it in the first place. In fact, statistically, if it runs each day, each way, to time all the way...