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Recent content by Calamity James

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    Alstom derby great gathering 1st-3rd August 2025

    That's good - hopefully I see mine soon! I've had to file a dispute with PayPal this morning as Mortons haven't refunded my duplicate transaction despite emailing them about it all on Friday morning. Not even a cursory response, total radio silence.
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    Alstom derby great gathering 1st-3rd August 2025

    True, although I also have some cloud projects where you can literally just throw more resources at it. In the end their recourse was to put it behind a Cloudflare queue system - which I've never seen before and seemed to perform about as well as the Windows file copy estimate...
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    Alstom derby great gathering 1st-3rd August 2025

    I was thinking the same thing. It was running on AWS so you'd think they'd have anticipated demand and upped the resources to load balance a bit more
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    Alstom derby great gathering 1st-3rd August 2025

    That's good to know. I've also just had my confirmation email come through, which is a relief
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    Alstom derby great gathering 1st-3rd August 2025

    To anyone who managed to checkout with PayPal and had money taken but got no order confirmation (like myself), I've just had this from Greatest Gathering via Messenger: Mortons themselves were less than useless. I rang them this morning to ask the same question and they told me they weren't...
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    Class 707 to Southeastern Dates

    Nice spot! There's also a video up on YouTube already of it passing Sidcup:
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    Permit to Travel Machines

    Just to confirm that it does work. I use it whenever I'm heading into work and not driving. Quite picky about which 5p coins it takes, and the last time I used it the ink was very low. I think Aylesford still has one too, there certainly was (and it worked) when I lived there back in 2012...

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