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LNW-GW Joint's latest activity
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread European ticket booking sites, any recommendations?.The free travel options are quite complicated (eg in Hungary), and you are best booking those legs with MAV-START. Even then they are... -
LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Commuter and Metro Services: Which Rolling Stock Upgrade Had the Greatest Impact? In the last 40 years.It's a bit outside the 40 year limit, but the introduction of 317s on the St Pancras-Bedford route in 1983 must be high on the list...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread CAF class 197 Civity for TfW: News and updates on introduction..All Cambrian services today look like 158s as usual, according to RTT...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread CAF class 197 Civity for TfW: News and updates on introduction..The 158s will get their 10-year service extension - with another TOC once TfW have finished with them. There's a long list of areas...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread 4 track railway: line pairings discussion.Added to which, in both WCML cases the newly laid outer track became the fast (125mph) lines, leaving the old fast inner line (now the...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Shrewsbury to London through trains.Avanti actually have the 805s for the route, as the fleet was ordered when Shrewsbury had a through service with 221s. However, the DfT...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates.Until this week, and confirmed by Tim's excellent overhead video, I hadn't realised how much curvature there is in Gledholt Tunnel. You...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread New Menai Bridge proposed, should it have a rail aspect?.I think the main perceived need is for a reliable replacement of the road suspension bridge for purely local traffic, not touching the...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates.Just to add, and not really part of TRU, but stove-pipe attachments for OHL cantilevers are now installed on the Rochdale lines from...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates.This may not be totally new, but the 3rd track in the Calder Valley (the Up Slow) appears to be decommissioned. My 802 stayed on the...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Transpennine Route Upgrade and Electrification updates.Stunning progress recently. The new fast lines are mostly down from Huds to Deighton with lots of steelwork up. Also 4 tracks and new...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Month-long shutdown of North Wales Coast Line for engineering works.From Saturday 9 January 2027 Realtimetrains has buses scheduled to run west of Chester to Llandudno and Holyhead. The Holyhead service...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread Euro 2028: Manchester - Liverpool Corridor.Liverpool only really has beach-type flights to the Mediterranean, there are far fewer European city flights compared to Manchester. Any...
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread TfW PAYG - North Wales.I just failed to add my senior railcard to the PAYG section of the website ("failed to retrieve/add...").
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LNW-GW Joint replied to the thread UK Government publishes National Rolling Stock strategy..It's actually posted in the "GBR Efficiency" thread in the Speculation section (from post #39), despite being important government...