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Eetr221 replied to the thread LNWR G2 lack of BR smokebox number plate?.Crewe works was always reluctant over and delayed implementing some of those Midland inspired LMS policies, like painting locos red and...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread 4 track railway: line pairings discussion.The intriguing case used to be the ex-LSWR Windsor Line out to Barnes - while the centre pair of tracks have, AFAIK, always been...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Steam trams and tram engines.The Portstewart Tramway (in Northern Ireland, so UK), which had been taken over Belfast & Northern Counties Railway, so later MR(NCC)...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread I had to crawl on my hands and knees to get off train, says disabled woman.Something I am surprised has not been mentioned/raised is the extent to which the train was delayed at Bath, once it was discovered that...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Furthest a shunter locomotive has moved under its own power?.The NRM/LCGB Ken Nunn photo collection includes at least one shot of an Ipswich or Yarmouth dock shunter tram engines running light...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Penalty fare for travel outside London Transport zones on Oyster Card.I do wonder how many people - even those who perhaps should know, rather than the nerds who actually study such things - could actually...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Very-trivial trivia item: Stations on a Monopoly board.The London and Blackwall (L&Bl) was leased by the Great Eastern (I think for 999 years) from 1866, but remained a separate company that...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Scanning Photographs.The RCTS archive I am involved with has an Epson FastFoto scanner which can scan prints at a rate of knots: put in a batch of prints and...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Why are the centre platforms at Edgware Road (Sub-Surface) through platforms.Looking in 'A History of London Transport' (Barker and Robbins) there seem to have been various proposals over the years to relieve the...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Why are the centre platforms at Edgware Road (Sub-Surface) through platforms.Short answer - because it was designed, back in the 1920s, it was around a very different service specification, that didn't include...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread If BR had been built to Continental gauge?.As British railways came first, when they were started there was no such thing as continental loading gauge... So, perhaps two...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread What if the Central Line branches to Hainault, Epping and Ongar had remained part of BR?.My understanding is that the LPTB Central Line East and LNER Liverpool St-Shenfield electrification schemes were planned together as...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Railway Industry Codes vs Air Industry Codes.A lot of TfL (London Underground) stations have CRS codes starting with a Z - without knowing, I assume Farringdon's ZFD goes back to...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Railway Industry Codes vs Air Industry Codes.In railway terms (so CRS codes ) the new service is BHM to MIA In IATA speak, it's QQN to MAN (yes, according to Wikipedia, some...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Has there been any attempt to create a timelapse map of the UK railways over time?.For completeness it would also need lines complete but not yet opened (thinking of EWR!), under construction, authorised (to what level...