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    How can I find out what sort of GWR 80x I can expect on a particular train service?

    I've just realised what you meant, OK Tiverton Parkway then! Oh dear I seem to have given away my age:(!!
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    How can I find out what sort of GWR 80x I can expect on a particular train service?

    I am a wheelchair user and before the pandemic I was getting used to free first class upgrades on the new GWR trains because of the lack of accessible seats in standard class in the five car ones. I am planning my first post pandemic trip. I am vulnerable for medical reasons so I'm keen avoid...
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    South Wales 'Metro' updates

    Apologies, didn't you see your earlier message. Should have done a screen refresh before posting a reply!
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    South Wales 'Metro' updates

    The FLIRTS use overhead wires, they are tri-modes.You probably meant the CAF trains, and I agree with you!
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    What's an APT-P doing in Crewe?

    Thanks for your replies, glad to see it is appreciated. Clearly it won't be another 25 years before my next visit to that part of the world!
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    What's an APT-P doing in Crewe?

    Until last weekend I hadn't travelled the route between Crewe and Manchester since the 1990s and I was to say the least surprised to see an APT-P in exactly the same place place outside Crewe where I remember it last time! It didn't look too neglected, the paint was quite clean. Does anybody...
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    HS2 construction updates

    Does anybody know of any webcams for us to keep an eye on what's happening?
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    Why do so few trains have level access?

    Thank you very much for your replies everybody, Lots of interesting stuff there. I absolutely agree with those of you that pointed out that wheelchair users have a right to travel and shouldn’t worry about any slight delays they cause. The law is clear that we have a right to expect what is...
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    Why do so few trains have level access?

    As a wheelchair user, it is very frustrating that with all the talk about PRM modifications nobody is bothering to address the issue that is really important to me - level access trains. The only heavy-rail service in the UK that I have ever come across with level access is Heathrow Express...
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    Campaign for Better Transport : Reopenings Fund

    Click here if you'd like to add your name to a letter to DfT calling for a fund to be set up to finance reopenings...
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    Trivia: Stations that are 1 minute apart

    Quite. The station entrances are about 12 metres apart! https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.4017158,-4.1872484,3a,75y,56.09h,86.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFR7LzNEVGXvsGYcA9dGRvg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB
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    Trivia: Stations that are 1 minute apart

    Devonport to Dockyard (in Plymouth) is timetabled 1 minute in one direction, 2 minutes the other.
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    Devon & Filton banks - could electrification on uphill sections be possible?

    I was growing up in Plymouth in the 60s and I remember how the diesel-hydraulics really struggled over these banks. From memory, 1 in 37 in places. You're right, Coppercapped, electrification might not improve current timings, but it might help us keep what we've got should anyone want to run...
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    GWR Class 800

    ".... their brake resistors, which dissipate energy during braking and turn it back into electricity,..." That's darned clever engineering!
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    Cardiff - Swansea Electrification Cancelled!

    Thanks very much for all your comments about my Alun Cairns correspondence. I have taken them all on board, I'll let you know how he responds.
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