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najaB replied to the thread A scam phone calls and emails discussion..That's an interestingly specific scam, given that 99% of people who they call won't have taken a rail journey even close to the one... -
najaB replied to the thread Caledonian Sleeper.The slack timings allow recovery from late running, but aren't much help if something goes wrong with the stock or locomotives where a...
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najaB replied to the thread Caledonian Sleeper.Like many operators, it goes through bad spells. But generally speaking it isn't that bad of an operation considering the ease with...
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najaB replied to the thread Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now.Not quite the same, but this goes back to the days when long-distance international calls were very expensive (pounds per minute). My...
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najaB replied to the thread Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now.I've never seen them in use, but I have seen the spigots next to fireplaces. It always seemed a little odd having, effectively, a gas...
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najaB replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.Thank goodness that Elon and DOGE managed to find and eliminate $2tn worth of fraud, waste, and abuse in the Federal budget, and that...
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najaB replied to the thread Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now.Seems that heating a gas and compressing a gas have the same net effect. So instead of "Compress the gas and then let it cool, let the...
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najaB replied to the thread Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now.Still relatively common in commercial settings.
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najaB replied to the thread Thoughts on the Trump presidency.The South China Sea even has one of those countries' name in it...
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najaB replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.Okay. Let's limit the message to areas where the fire risk is elevated. This is the current fire risk map for England and Wales: Link...
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najaB replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.It's highly unlikely that your crossing the road would result in tens or hundreds of other people losing their homes or lives though, is it?
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najaB replied to the thread Freight train derailment caught on live stream - Pennsylvania, USA.From the article you linked: Since there's still a continuous brake pipe, the system would fail safe since the brakes would still apply...
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najaB replied to the thread Freight train derailment caught on live stream - Pennsylvania, USA.Had they started twenty years ago a significant number of the fleet could already have been fitted. And I stand to be corrected, but I...
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najaB replied to the thread Severe Alert from the UK Government.There goes the "It's common sense not to have a barbeque" argument!
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najaB replied to the thread Freight train derailment caught on live stream - Pennsylvania, USA.This delay could easily be mitigated by electronically activated brakes, but US railways have declined to move to this system as I...
