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Recent content by TheKeymeister

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    Rules regarding power socket usage

    In my last job, power sockets that had some form of restriction, e.g separately earthed, had a non-standard socket configuration, usually either Electrak or Walsall gauge. Seems like this would be an ideal application...
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    Advice wanted on house next to rail lines

    I've agreed to buy a house close to the WCML in coventry, although that section probably isn't as busy as where yours is, it doesn't seem to be too bad. Mine has got 2 houses between me and the railway, and the railway is in a cutting at that point. I currently live the other side of the...
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    The Pretendolino thread

    I can't for the life of me find it now, but at the back end of last year I saw it in the news section of a site (can't remember which, possibly a rosco or wnxx or something like that) to say that the lease for the pretendolino rake had been renewed for charter/emergency use.
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    "Rail Minister Spends 80k A Year To Be Driven To Work"

    Season ticket loans just like normal people? That'd be the day ! Anyone to do with government seems to want to have everything up to and incuding having their arse wiped for them by the taxpayer because "why should they have pay for it themselves" Never mind that everyone else has to pay...
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    HS2 Northern Branches Discussion

    Is there anything on paper yet about this, the potential route it will take, etc? Another one from SABRE then !
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    PHBTs: EAL (30/10), WIM (31/10), DPD (4/11), NSH (6/11) & Bamber Bridge (7/11)

    All well and good but most mobile operators charge for free phone numbers anyway so not much gained
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    Fire service delivers water for steam train

    I did offer but still no good apparently! I did consider setting fire to it but fortunately I sorted it without such drastic measures in the end
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    Fire service delivers water for steam train

    Surprised they went, I phoned the non-emergency number in desperation recently when my canal boat was sinking, and was just told that as it wasn't an emergency they weren't allowed to help...
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    Oyster Help

    I wondered this when I was in London, and changed between Tower Hill tube and Tower Gateway DLR. Apparently touching out and touching in at a nearby station within a specified time has the effect of 'cancelling' the last touch out, making it appear as one continuous journey. That's how it...
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    Introductions

    Name: Sam Age: 22 Lives: Coventry/Rugby Job: HV Engineer Transport Interests: Roads, boats, trains (but not planes...yet) Something I could not live without: The internets Whats in my wallet: Not enough money Just to add, I was completely anti-rail until I started travelling to London...

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