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Mikey C's latest activity
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Mikey C replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.Victoria might be great for tourists arriving in London, but an awful lot of Gatwick traffic is British people in London and the... -
Mikey C replied to the thread Class 333 Modifications at Holbeck - Summer 2026.They're made by CAF actually, with Siemens traction equipment! Another one of those slightly oddball orders, a 3 car "metro" derivative...
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Mikey C replied to the thread How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?.The Thameslink trains might be cattle trucks, but they are perfectly suited to airport duty, as they are massive and have lots of open...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Publicity and the Launch of the (Fleet) Jubilee line.Ironically, one of the largest legacies of the 1970s Jubilee Line, is the rebuild to create a single Charing Cross underground station...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Publicity and the Launch of the (Fleet) Jubilee line.I'm not surprised there wasn't much hype, as the first new section of the Jubilee Line was a short length of track with just 4 "new"...
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Mikey C replied to the thread The cost of living agenda - how should the railway contribute ?.And I would debate the generalisation that car owners as a whole are wealthier than non rail users. A lot of poor people never use the...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Publicity and the Launch of the (Fleet) Jubilee line.I was talking about the 1979 opening! In that the publicity wouldn't just be about a whizzy new line opening, but that existing users of...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Publicity and the Launch of the (Fleet) Jubilee line.It's a bit different opening a brand new line (Victoria) or extending an existing one (Jubilee Line in the 90s) to opening a new line...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Proposed new Channel Tunnel services discussion.I can see a number of these slightly speculative, and slightly non standard, high speed trains being unwanted by the early 2030s.
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Mikey C replied to the thread Proposed new Channel Tunnel services discussion.I had a VERY slow wait for security last year coming back early morning from Amsterdam, where the staff arrived ridiculously late
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Mikey C replied to the thread Additional Southeastern High Speed services.Leaving aside the costs involved to run Rye/Hastings services onto HS1, one positive is that they do make more use of HS1 than the...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Proposed new Channel Tunnel services discussion.As Eurostar stations require border controls and luggage security scanning, they are more like airports than normal railway stations.
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Mikey C replied to the thread Possible future use of the 323s!? Your thoughts.The 323s are only slightly newer than the Networkers, and nobody is planning further use for them when they go. The 323s were also...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Merseyrail to be brought back under public control: what improvements/changes may result?.TfL have full control over the Overground, Liz, DLR and buses, even if a private operator operates the actual services. Indeed, I...
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Mikey C replied to the thread Proposed new Channel Tunnel services discussion.Is there even room at Stratford International for all the border and security formalities, considering how things have changed since HS1...