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Recent content by IanH440

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    DMU "Paytrain" Operated Routes now closed?

    Keswick to Penrith - dmu only in latter years
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    Great Central Railway News and Updates

    How does closure affect the Quorn Facilities? -- I enjoyed a breakfast there at the November gala but had to make do with a a bacon roll at the January Gala.... what will be on offer by the February event....
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    Quirky or quaint practices on buses in the past

    I used Ribble in the Lake district in the mid 70's and i can remember parcels being exchanged between routes at Newby Bridge....
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    Tavistock - Bere Alston Feasibility Study in jeopardy. But what could be done if the money was available?

    Would you care to elaborate on how a single track bridge with speed and weight restrictions makes more sense than a direct dual track main line?
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    What locomotives would work far north line timber trains?

    That what i was looking at.. Two switches - a short headshunt and a siding -- were the connections made to the local panel at the same time...
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    What locomotives would work far north line timber trains?

    what are the existing loop and sidings at the Inverness factory used for?
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    Aircraft You've Flown On

    About Thirty years ago I was in the Yukon with my father and needed to return to UK - first flight was on a DC3 from Dawson to Whitehorse - Air North a Canadian internal flight -
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    East-West Rail (EWR): Oxford-Bletchley construction progress

    how does this work around the Quainton Railway Center - and their ability to use the old calvet line through the platforms?
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    The 2024 US presidential election.

    I am not so sure .... i have watched extracts and its trully cringeworthy....
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    New private sidings in 2023 or 2024

    Ashville Aggregates on the West Drayton Branch..... just opening new yard... served by GBRF i believe
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    Tfw . Who's is control ?

    MOM and point clips?
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    Station pubs (part two?)

    Is there still a pub in the old station building at Reading
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    Aberystwyth station former layout

    This might help. https://www.s-r-s.org.uk/html/gwu/S3163.htm looks like 1 for the south 2 and 3 for the north
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands (22/03/24)

    excellent piece of citizen reporting there Matilda and Mum .... a future at BBC Cumbria awaits.. who needs the RAIB....
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    What is the longest bus/coach journey you have been on?

    San Antonio TX to Milwaukee WI - 19hours+ 1300+miles - 12 bunk sleeper bus on a Country Tour - single driver - we took turns to keep him awake for the last few hours...
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