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    Skipping Lancaster

    Does anyone know the reason why most Manchester-Windermere trains miss out Lancaster ? It means you can't get from Barrow or Leeds to Windermere without changing twice.
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    Trivia: Last Major Railway Lines/Stations to close

    Holborn Viaduct (1990) ?
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    Station Cats

    Of course none of these are as famous as the station master at Kishi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat)
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    Campaign to restore passenger services on the Middlewich Link Line

    Which presumably explains the picking-up/setting-down restrictions at Hale. The LNWR had running powers between Hartford and Altrincham.
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    Curvature in different places

    Basically because the south is flat and the north isn't.
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    Before the M602 was built (Eccles Line) question

    It was four-tracked, but the motorway took much more than just the northern pair. You can see old maps on http://maps.nls.uk/
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    US Streamliners on TV

    For those with dishes - PBS America is now available on Freesat They are currently showing a program about US Streamliners of the 1930s - repeated later this afternoon
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    Trivia: Most Platforms lost.

    5, all on the western island. Down from 17 to 12.
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    Trivia: Most Platforms lost.

    Manchester Victoria. Originally 17, now 6 + 3 Metrolink (17 doesn't include the 5 at Exchange)
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    no train to Marbella

    M.G.Ball's Euro Rail Atlas shows a proposed line from Fuengirola to Algeciras, although it doesn't show a station at Marbella.
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    Northern/TPE Invitation to Tender published

    The "pausing" of TP electrification is going to throw all kinds of spanners into the works. Bidders will not know what their traction requirements are going to be.
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    Freight traffic on London Tilbury & Southend (c2c) route?

    Remember that the trains marked with a "(Q)" are "runs as required", in other words are slots in which a train can run, but may not.
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    Freight traffic on London Tilbury & Southend (c2c) route?

    See: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/advanced/BKG/2015/09/04/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=freight&order=wtt Mostly containers to/from the docks.
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    Blackpool - Manchester Electrification

    Probably because the A666 goes over it, which it would be unacceptable to close.
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    Metrolink: Concerns regarding single line working St Peters Square

    It's from the intersection with Nicholas Street (outside the Art Gallery) to the Manchester Central Convention Complex - about 500m by my guess.
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