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    (TRIVIA) Busy stations which hardly anybody walks to

    I’ve actually walked from WOP (I was staying in a nearby monastery at the end of a track). Like you say mostly for interchanging, there’s a good bus service and taxis available
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    Anne Announcement Differences

    She says ‘the next train to arrive at,’ and ‘the next train to depart from’ differently at Leeds (and I believe London Charing Cross) to other stations
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    New Year’s Day services

    This is probably related to my opening post and Leeds running a weekday service as there was an early morning GNER Leeds to Aberdeen
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    New Year’s Day services

    Historically WYPTE or metro (70’s-00’s - I left the area early 2000’s) always ran a full weekday service if New Year’s Day fell on a weekday. this usually included trains to Manchester or York outside the boundary being ran too. Is this still the case? 1767191844 If this is duplicate or in the...
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    Platform Numbering Anomalies

    Leeds had a platform W for a while at current platform 1, current 2 and 3 were going to be X and Y, but they then decided to re- number the whole station. Under this system would current platform 0 be platform V?
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    Trivia: Open country junctions

    This would count now, but when the new junction was completed Norton Bridge was technically still open!
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    Dual–Named Stations?

    Sandwell & Dudley Tutbury and Hatton Ashchurch for Tewkesbury
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    Trivia: Unusual / Interesting Calling Patterns?

    While not a different calling pattern; is there still an evening class 9 service to Whitby?
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    Fleet names that weren't widely adopted

    This is what I remember. Maybe it was the 156’s that showed ‘Super sprinter’
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    Fleet names that weren't widely adopted

    I recall referring to 155’s and 156’s as ‘Super sprinters’ when frequently travelling with a friend in the 80’s and early 90’s In the later 90’s I remember a trip to Manchester where the tutor was expecting an ‘express’ (ie a transpennine express 158), yet thought our Metro WYPTE liveried 158...
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    Trivia - how many stations have a road bisecting their platforms and hence a level crossing within the station

    Birmingham New Street originally had this and retains a right of way through the station
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    Bus Pass and Replacement Buses?

    Depending on where you live your concessionary pass may be valid for use on local trains (and therefore RRB) or within a PTE area 1707054433 Leicester elderly get half fare and disabled get free fare between Leicestershire stations and between Leicester and Nuneaton, derby or Nottingham
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    Whos voice is this?

    Although his wife Elinor is also an announcer for London Underground, Phil Sayer was usually paired with Celia Drummond also now deceased(current announcer for Northern, Chiltern, Eurostar)
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    UKs flagship station

    What about York or Crewe

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