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    24th August: Metroland

    Exactly that. Edward Watkin chairman of the Metropolitan, Great Central and South Eastern Railways (in late Victorian times) had this dream of establishing a through route between Manchester, Sheffield, London and Paris and was instrumental in the first attempt to tunnel under the Channel. His...
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    24th August: Metroland

    There are copies of the DVD on Amazon. I still have a copy from many years ago. Great stuff - especially the bit on Watkins Folly...
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    Railway water towers

    There's a great one at Haltwhistle on the Newcastle to Carlisle line...
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    Cowley line to reopen

    Should never have shut the Tramway...
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    HS2 Old Oak Common

    I still look upon Trimphones with suspicion....
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    Leeds station improvement updates

    Does this make Sunderland & Newcastle the North-North. We look down on those folks in Lancashire & Yorkshire that think they live in the North...
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    Metrocar updates and withdrawals - Tyne & Wear Metro

    I saw them (41 & 50) going north at Seaburn this afternoon from the opposite platform - nearly brought a tear to my eyes. There were folks sitting in them, blissfully unaware of the significance...
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    The Naming of the 'Big Four' - who decided and how? Controversial?

    to complete the saying, the MS & L was renamed the Great Central (alias Gone Completely)!
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    [Trivia] stations where two lines converge on a single station and then both branch off eachother towards different directions.

    Harsh since the junction for the Carlisle line is only just the other side of the King Edward VII bridge...
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    "Trivia" Through stations with extremely few passenger trains which do not call

    I suspect that the Chiltern services (or the Amersham Met ones) may not count at most of the stations you mention do not have platforms on the "fast" lines. Only Moor Park would count as it has 2 island platforms.
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    Murray's ABC

    David & Charles produced a reprint of the July 1923 ABC Guide (to complement their reproductions of various Bradshaws). I picked up my copy at a charity shop for £3.
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    Northampton-Market Harborough line

    I travelled along the Northampton to Market Harborough line in November 1969 on the "Hornet Express" special train for Watford fans to Hull. The routing was: Watford Junction, Northampton, Market Harborough, Leicester, Erewash Valley, Chesterfield, the "Old Road" to Rotherham Masborough...
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    Carlisle shunt neck

    I have a copy of the Ian Allan Pre-Grouping Railway Junctions Diagrams 1914 which has the Carlisle area on page 1 (this is maybe where the Wikipedia diagram comes from). It is worth its weight in gold for showing locations where lines and junctions seem illogical now but are due to subsequent...
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    Saddest Sights on the Railways (Trivia)

    Says somebody that presumably either has never been there or is from Newcastle...
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    Darlington station expansion

    Talking of use, I can remember (just) in 1969 sleeping in a DMU parked in platform 3 at round about 2 o'clock on a Saturday morning with a friend on the way to Middlesbrough for a football match. All was going well until he pulled out a package of pilchard sandwiches which had been fermenting in...
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