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DelW replied to the thread What are those train shakers at London Euston for?.There's a zig-zag pattern of rust resistant weld metal (ref post #4) which means the leading wheels are running on a rougher than usual... -
DelW replied to the thread SWR Portsmouth services diverted via Oxshott on 3/4 August.From memory, the line's level is not far off the surrounding ground level. A 25" OS map (but pre-dating the new housing) suggests it's...
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DelW replied to the thread East-West Rail (EWR) countdown to entry into service.Many passengers like to have a seat. Which is rarely available on XC between Oxford and Birmingham (or indeed on most of their network)...
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DelW replied to the thread SWR Portsmouth services diverted via Oxshott on 3/4 August.Yes, the reception line and/or headshunt for the aggregates yard extends about 30 chains (from Quail) south of the junction, alongside...
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DelW replied to the thread TRIVIA - Tonbridge Jubilee Sidings: whose Jubilee?.Only three British monarchs have celebrated the main Jubilees during the railway era - Victoria (silver, gold, diamond), George V...
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DelW replied to the thread TfW withdrawals (Now just 150/158s to go).This chart (originally posted in the cl398 thread) shows the planned removal of 158s from North Wales services being completed in...
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DelW replied to the thread Avanti take needless announcements to a new level.Surely those who need to hear announcements about stops etc. would be helped by reduction or removal of all the other dross. They must...
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DelW replied to the thread Train drivers’ decades-long ticket fraud ‘cost taxpayer millions.It seems that this was a government owned company that was avoiding buying tickets, initially from privately owned TOCs, later from...
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DelW replied to the thread SWR Portsmouth services diverted via Oxshott on 3/4 August.Made massively less likely by BR's decision to sell off the land west of the up Pompey line which the Southern had bought to accommodate...
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DelW replied to the thread Old signal boxes in southern UK.See link in post 4 ;)
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DelW replied to the thread StopBoard - free live bus departure board for every stop in Great Britain.I think this is a by-product of a much bigger problem than just for this website or similar ones - that most bus stop identifiers are...
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DelW replied to the thread Caledonian Sleeper.It looks like the mains power failure mentioned above is still affecting the Highland main line.
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DelW replied to the thread SWR Portsmouth services diverted via Oxshott on 3/4 August.Yes, it would make sense for just the fast line to be a switch diamond, pretty much all trains on the up Pompey and the down main slow...
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DelW replied to the thread SWR Portsmouth services diverted via Oxshott on 3/4 August.At Woking, it might be difficult to find room, as there are a lot of tracks through and around the junction. I think the two locations...
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DelW replied to the thread Old signal boxes in southern UK.Haslemere on the Portsmouth Direct line has a signal box on the down platform, which was decommissioned a few months ago when the line...
