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AAM9 replied to the thread Clearing up Waste material after Maintenance and Renewals.C Cost is not necessarily the dominating factor in many cases on routes that have very little time for any engineering possession other...
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AAM9 replied to the thread Clearing up Waste material after Maintenance and Renewals.Hasn't this been discussed before? The problem with a heavily used network like the UK has is that removing surplus material is...
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AAM9 replied to the thread Why did diesel trains run between London, East Croydon and Horsham in the 80s?.But there isn't much chance of any 3rd rail installation being permitted whatever the split is.
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AAM9 replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.I'm sure that a few of @Strathclyder 's 'plaudits' would be shared by many here. ;)
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AAM9 replied to the thread 4 track railway: line pairings discussion.Thanks for the explanation. As a fairly regular leisure traveller, I've often been entertained by the slow/fast/slow dance that the TL...
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AAM9 replied to the thread 4 track railway: line pairings discussion.Given the requirement to move Thameslink fast trains from the core on the slows, then over to the fasts before West Hampstead, (and vice...
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AAM9 replied to the thread Increase in Blue & Grey preserved stock..I think it's more about the freshness of the bodywork, - unless one is looking for a dilapidated period look. The state of the...
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AAM9 replied to the thread Supermarkets discussion.I have never worked in any of the qualifying jobs, (such as medical, education, banking, civil service, or local government), but...
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AAM9 replied to the thread You know you’re getting older when…….In my case, the following three moves meant that additional top ups were necessary, each having their own endowment policy. As my income...
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AAM9 replied to the thread Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now.In a similar vein, I doubt that sheets of drafting linen are easy to buy. It was ubiquitous until the late '50s, being replaced by...
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AAM9 replied to the thread You know you’re getting older when…….I started out with a Low Cost Endowment in 1972, (it was for about £6.5k but the payments were based on a £4.4k endowment ploughing...
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AAM9 replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.... EVER in the history of the World. We are all privileged to have lived in his lifetime. o_O
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AAM9 replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.Has Trump made 'super' a contronym?
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AAM9 replied to the thread Increase in Blue & Grey preserved stock..I do remember seeing Gresley coaches in blood and custard passing through Stratford in the late '50s but they didn't really look good...
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AAM9 replied to the thread Increase in Blue & Grey preserved stock..Yes, I'm sure that they were never anything other than Maroon, then blue/grey, then (some of them) Jaffa Cake, then NSE. They were...