Recent content by SargeNpton

International offices in Paris, Brussels, Dublin and New York. I once applied for a job at the New York office, but didn't get it. I also had to travel on a day trip to Brussels via Eurostar to fix a computer in that office.

Any sci-fi series that has multiple conflicting timelines where history has changed. I give you "Heroes". Great first series and then it all gets horribly confused.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c797wv928g8o

Sorry, but taking 28 years to walk around the world on the pretext of going home is not inspirational but just a waste of a life, especially as he has a family.

Sometime in the 1980s (or possibly early 90s)... One evening the 1720 Euston-Northampton loco-hauled Cobbler lost it's last 2 or 3 coaches just as it entered Watford tunnel on the down fast. Eventually, the front portion carried on to Northampton. Those of us in the rear portion had to wait an...

Talcum Powder itself now seems to have disappeared from sale, presumably because of the realisation that a lot of it is contaminated by asbestos. If you can find any body powder on sale in major stores these days it is invariably made from vegetable starch.

Well that would be playing into the hands of those who would wish to destabilise NATO. I would guess that the leaders of the other NATO members are trying not to do anything drastic in the short term, in the hope that the next US administration returns to some semblance of normality. Evicting...

Aberdare is an odd station. The two platforms have different TIPLOCs in the train planning data, though they are both indexed to the same CRS code and NLC for fares and passenger enquiries. Platform 2 is on the new down line, whilst platform 1 is the old single track that now forms the up line...

See post #58 in this thread.

How far back you go to right historic wrongs is a moot point that is outside of the scope of this thread.

Are those settlers not just the descendants of people who were themselves ethnically cleansed from the same land by Saracen invaders hundreds of years ago?

Does it just reinforce the message on the posters on the wall behind it? I assume that they meet the regulations.

Have fun levelling all platforms at far flung stations (which has been discussed in other threads).

Now that the deadline for nominations has closed, there will be 15 candidates on the voting papers for the Holborn & St Pancras By-Election (source: https://www.pollcheck.co.uk/by-elections/holborn-and-st-pancras). In alphabetical order by party, they are: Christian Peoples Alliance: Helen...

Every LU and DLR station has a CRS code in the Z-- series. Indeed, you may find some LU stations that have different codes for platforms on different lines (and different codes for LU and National Rail where they share infrastructure). CRS codes were introduced circa 1981, when seat...