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The return trip is the same cost as a single £12 so if you want a return ticket its £24 overall. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Actually £21.10 is the cheapest option for a return ticket, just checked.

Best option for you is to go to the HEx ticket office. It is £12 one way with the railcard

It is a CGA wagon. This particular wagon will transport biomass material to various power plants which utilises biomass boilers. The wagon was unveiled at Knottingley depot 2 weeks ago. It is basically a HTA wagon with a watertight membrane to protect the material from the weather. It can also...

I'm currently on the 15.31 from York to London and actually suprised to see this service pretty much full.

It would be a nice idea for crossrail to have double deck trains however I would imagine that if you increase the diameter of a tunnel after going through initial designs, it would cost millions. Not only that you would have to rectify the clearance issues on the Great Eastern.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8141069.stm?ls

First attempt 52 correct words, 4 incorrect words --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Second attempt 55 words

The mother gave birth to Ben first on March 1st. At that time of the birth she must have been travelling either on a boat, plane, train or whatever the form of transportation where the date line changes. In this case the date goes back to February 28th. Adam was then born. Thus on a leap...

Both twin brothers were born on a leap year. Adam on the late hours of February 28th and Ben on the early hours of February 29th. If this is not right then both birthdays are celebrated on different calendars. My question to you What is the unit of power? --- old post above --- --- new...

From an engineering point of view I think aerodynamics come into play with the front design. It looks great to be honest.

Will they build a new maintainance facility to accomodate the new trains and are there any more stabling points for the extra 321s?

Noted an FCC 377 heading northbound at Farringdon about 5 mins ago

That explains why I kept getting a wifi signal on certain pendolinos. The SSID's were named tests, so I am assuming that the roll out is imminent.

The notches in cabs acts like variable resistors. They control the amount of current flowing through the motors. The 'noise' you hear from the motors are indeed GTO thyristors. You always hear some type of syncronous noise with induction motors (AC).

Yes there was a queue for those too...I was so fixated with time I didn't see how fast the queue was going.