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Recent content by Graham Hall

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    Intercity services going through/terminating at Middlesbrough in the late 1980s.

    The Kings Cross to Newcastle sleeper via the Durham Coast went in October 1982 IIRC.
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    Bleakest UK Station (Trivia)

    Well, as someone who lives in Seaton Carew and as a regular user of Hartlepool I doubt I will agree with DarloRich, after all, Harrison and Bell designed a wonderful wind tunnel at Darlington...but if we are going for a really bleak station I nominate Stockton on Tees.
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    Commemoration of Original Companies at Railway Stations

    (West) Hartlepool also has a NER tile map and NER cast into the roof support spandrels.
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    What if Stanier had got the CME job at Swindon instead of Collett

    R A Riddles anyone, after all he was appointed as Staniers principal assistant in 1933.
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    Trivia - Contrasting Stations Served by the Same Train

    Newcastle and any station on the Esk Valley line, say Commondale.
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    Best lines to drive/travel

    Durham Coast line for me, not the most scenic but full of interest. I would follow that with the Tyne Valley line for the scenery and history.
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    Using trains to travel to work

    I was stopped at Thornaby last night by the BTP. I am employed by a Govt Dept and classed as a key key worker. We have all been provided with letters to show the police which backs up our id if needed, but in this case he didn't ask for id, just asked if I was going home after work, then got...
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    142071 on 16.20 Nunthorpe to Hexham 2N45. So much for them leaving the North East...
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    142032 will now be approaching Hartlepool heading to Hexham (I passed it at Stockton).
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    Well 142014 is now working the 10.20 Middlesbrough to Whitby. 2D87...and it's very cold on here. Thankfully I am only going as far as Great Ayton.
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    142014 on 2N12 - 08.40 Newcastle to Middlesbrough.
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    142032 heading to Saltburn on 2N04 - 06.10 from Hexham.
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    142067 doing the honours on 2N04 - 06.10 Hexham to Saltburn
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    Now on 142060 on 2N12 - 08.33 Newcastle to Middlesbrough
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    Northern Class 142 sightings

    142014 on 2N45 16.20 Nunthorpe to Hexham (which will be terminated at Newcastle tonight).
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