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Eetr221 replied to the thread Meaning of terms such as Cancelled At Point of Entry (CAPE) etc.An W3W bad example is "There’s been a train derailment, on the Clyde", at likely.stage.sock - typing it in to W3W, it will also suggest...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Meaning of terms such as Cancelled At Point of Entry (CAPE) etc.I came across a Scottish post code, which covered two addresses five or ten miles apart - they were 'next door neighbours' along the...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Isolated, and Very Isolated, railways.The Italians had built relatively short narrow gauge systems based on Benghazi and Tripoli, that remained separate, which lasted until...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Isolated, and Very Isolated, railways.There was an equally isolated and short lived railway built to support the Abyssinian Campaign of 1868, running inland from the coast at...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread The years before you were born.While my 'living memory' was that we always (?) had TV - Black and White, with two channels (BBC and ITV - whichever regional company it...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.I recall a presentation, when Gatwick Express was new, by the then area manager at East Croydon at which he said it had changed his...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Old London Underground trains.T stock would I think never have run so, with its slam doors. Possibly some around of F stock, before it being converted to air doors...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Trivia: Where modern tramways in the UK follow alignments from previous tramway networks..For Tramlink, not very much, just a couple of bits in central Croydon are more or less where the old tramways ran: along George Street...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Old London Underground trains.Pictures have been published - see, e.g., in Brian Hardy's Underground Train File Surface Stock book. H stock largely went in the very...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Why is TfL's web site rubbish.I'm trying to remember where it was I saw the next train coming into one end of the platform, while the previous train was leaving the...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Trivia : Are there any stations that have no public exits?.What is the situation over Longcross? If I recall correctly, the site it served used to be MoD, strictly no unauthorised entry, and I...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread The years before you were born.While my 'living memory' (what I remember myself) goes back to about 1960, while I was growing up (1960s) the grown ups around me had...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Train drivers’ decades-long ticket fraud ‘cost taxpayer millions.For legitimate, correct, FOC 'duty travel' against a correct roster (as wasn't the case for the travel in the Telegraph story), am I...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Old signal boxes in southern UK.Princes Risborough North Signal Box is another which is preserved and is opened periodically - it's part of the Chinnor & Princes...
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Eetr221 replied to the thread Tube Challenge - Help Please?.There are several threads about (or related to) the Tube Challenge (use the search function), which include links to other fora...