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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Track out of Cannon Street towards Charing Cross/Blackfriars.When the South Eastern Railway built its extension west of London Bridge in the 1860s, the original plan was to run all trains into...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Consecutive pairs of units.For obvious reasons you'll never get two 710/0s in the same train, but I note that the only two not currently in passenger service are a...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread GWR Diversions over East West Rail - Nov 2026.The Penzance sleeper did run from Waterloo for a few years, to provide connections to Eurostar.
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Cross-haulage of empty intermodal wagons.The uncertainties associated with maritime shipping may mean that a working that was expected to need fewer than the maximum number of...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Road Replacement Rail Service - up Ryde pier (25-28 September).There was also the rail service at Workington using a temporary station on the north bank of the River Derwent to provide a service to...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Seat reservations compulsory London Paddington - Cardiff Sunday 16th August.Why is it not at Wembley? And if it can't be, why not at a neutral venue more convenient for supporters?
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Reason for converting Par - Fowey to a private haul road.Or forestry.
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Altnabreac station and the various legal disputes around it.Didn't nationalisation in 1947 transfer all active railway land to Britsh Railways, regardless of the previous owner? 1786701638 As I...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Climate adaptation challenges facing a railway built for a very different world?.Wasnt there an incident in Manchester recently when a freight train ran derailed for some distance without the driver realising, yntil a...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Lewes derailment - Thursday 13th August.No fatalities, but several injuries, two reported as serious.
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Lewes derailment - Thursday 13th August.Mea culpa 1786644982 Mea culpa
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Ladies Season Tickets.A diagonal line was used on Tube tickets in the70s fir the same purpose. Known to staff, in those less politically correct times, as the...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Lewes derailment - Thursday 13th August.BBC interviewd a passenger at length who was very clear, and suggested part if the delay in evacuation was because of the electrified...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread Caledonian Sleeper.I've lost count of how many tiems I've used the Caledonian sleeper - at least 25 - and have never been delayed by as much as half an...
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Nnorbitonflyer replied to the thread GWR Diversions over East West Rail - Nov 2026..... some rare track there on the NW side of the Kew triangle -, an expensive way of getting the rare track though as you would need...