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RRT4038 replied to the thread Freight train derailment caught on live stream - Pennsylvania, USA.And the trains were slower and there were many, many more people involved in inspecting, checking and operating the trains, but still...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Freight train derailment caught on live stream - Pennsylvania, USA.What I am meaning is that you need to compare apples with apples. The UK has abandoned freight service with individual rail cars being...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Freight train derailment caught on live stream - Pennsylvania, USA.I think there were a lot more derailments in the UK when we had a far greater percentage of 'loose freight car railroading'. Comparing...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread South Yorkshire People's Network. Future proposals & speculative discussion.Not for taxi drivers...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Saturdays and Sundays should be inside the working week for drivers at all TOCs (not just some as at present).It wouldn't be quite that high a %, because most lines have reduced or no service on Sundays, particularly on Sunday mornings. Could...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Last bus cancelled and no help.Quite. Cancelling last buses was almost unthinkable then. Crews knew that their life would be made fairly unpleasant on subsequent...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Last bus cancelled and no help.This is changing now, with the development of programs (of varying accuracy) to compare BODS tracking data with Schedules. I am sure...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Last bus cancelled and no help.I would suggest that, outside of the major cities, every bus on the road at night will contain a last bus to somewhere, if not last...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Bus services that require reversing (except in bus stations).The 51 (Stratford-Moreton) reverses at Stretton-on-Fosse, mid journey. There are other places where buses have to reverse at the...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Last bus cancelled and no help.Quite. Much of the public think that Local Authorities control the bus services; it is a difficult PR exercise to start...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Last bus cancelled and no help.Did you specifically ask them for re-imbursement of a receipted taxi fare, or some other expense? There is no concept of...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread Log your bus dwell times here.I did an analysis on my commute journey last Tuesday 28th July (as attached). On the a.m. journey the driver was fastidious in waiting...
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RRT4038 replied to the thread A Braintree to Sudbury railway.As building a railway would not be, without that number.
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RRT4038 replied to the thread A Braintree to Sudbury railway.An option to get a railway might be to build 100,000 houses at Halstead ?
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RRT4038 replied to the thread BARTON: buses around Stamford, Lincs.The main change from 10 years before, on 2nd February 1975, was 241 (formerly 278) Stamford-Market Harborough was curtailed at Caldecott...