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Ttakno replied to the thread Budget hotels discussion.AFAIK Leonardo are all owned. The core of the group is the Jurys Inn hotels which they bought in bulk, basically at the point when they...
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Ttakno replied to the thread Stranraer line engineering works: station and infrastructure works..Quite exciting to see that system actually making it to a fuller rollout on the Central Wales line. It seems so hard to get a nice cheap...
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Ttakno replied to the thread Budget hotels discussion.The one I stayed in over the weekend (not UK), was a strange beast. The receptionist took a while to get to me because she was shouting...
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Ttakno replied to the thread Stranraer line engineering works: station and infrastructure works..When I mapped the route recently, I was surprised by how many completely unused loops it has. Was it still too busy for RETB when the...
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Ttakno replied to the thread South Wales 'Metro' potential works, expansions and impact of possible road schemes on the railway.If they're going to be running tram-trains, and there's a road in the way, I think the answer writes itself
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Ttakno replied to the thread “Better WiFi for hundreds of trains under government plans“.I suspect that having it on Network Rail trains gives a consistent view of the data which is mapped accurately to the train lines and...
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Ttakno replied to the thread Budget hotels discussion.Best Western is definitely one of those brands which are so toxic they'd be better off not being with a network at all. Even the ones...
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Ttakno replied to the thread SRAWS (Signal Repeating/Southern Region AWS): why so little info.Signals away at this point with ETCS makes more sense. The sheer amount of development and testing, and the weight of international...
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Ttakno replied to the thread SRAWS (Signal Repeating/Southern Region AWS): why so little info.The idea that you're going to save a lot of money by taking out the physical signals in such a setup is optimistic. The ramp/beacon is...
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Ttakno replied to the thread Cheadle station.I suspect the point here is that even without the specific issues at this location, accessibility issues make a 2 platform station...
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Ttakno replied to the thread The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch.That's fine, but the right approach to this is to get rid of the personal allowance taper, funded by making tax over 100k 50%, and then...
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Ttakno replied to the thread The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch.There could be, but what's the point in expensively setting up another new organisation? If you want the EA to dredge rivers you really...
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Ttakno replied to the thread The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch.It does seem to be from the Chris Grayling school of anarchy dressed up as small government. Exactly the sort of thing that saves a...
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Ttakno replied to the thread Month-long shutdown of North Wales Coast Line for engineering works.Seems pretty standard BBC News. They could just reprint the press release, but they figure they'll get more clicks by finding some...
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Ttakno replied to the thread The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch.Seems like a bit of a niche thing to change your vote over, particularly since it's likely 3 years out and hasn't been meaningfully...