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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    The problem is by the time you have 3 full width seats and some crash protection, you'll end up with something that is so wide, that hinged car doors won't open in a normal parking space. With sliding doors, then you can get a bit wider. The middle seat for a KIA PV5 passenger van is a little...
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    You didn't mention your budget. A KIA EV3 matches everything but the 3 equal size rear seats. Its big enough for 3 adults for a short journey, with a flat floor, but its a bit cosy for a longer journey. The EV5 is an inch wider. The EV9 is much bigger with 3 rows of seats, but more expensive.
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    Budget hotels discussion

    Premier Inn now have a similar page as well https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/calendar.html
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    In 1989 I worked in a village/town with about 3000 people, in the German equivalent of Lincolnshire. There was a Sparkasse which had an ATM. I used the ATM for a bit. I forget what happened - I might have forgotten the PIN - but I couldn't face the administration to fix it. Instead I would go in...
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    Older cars you have seen

    I think it was "Nevada Beige" o_O
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    East-West Rail (EWR): is it worth it?

    The economic case for investing in a rail link between Oxford and Cambridge is not for students and staff at the Universities. It comes from the spin-out companies, which bring new money into the UK economy. The Cambridge Science Park was set up in 1970. Many of those companies could be set up...
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    You can do that. Click Change store and then you can find other nearby stores, with availability any time, or click Today and it will only show stores with the item in stock.
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    I think the issue with that Kangoo is that it doesn't support fast charging. https://ev-database.org/car/1101/Renault-Kangoo-Maxi-ZE-33 is for an equivalent model with passenger seats and it says it only charges at 7.4kW. Its fine if you have charging at home, and don't need a long range. Its...
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    Introducing RailUK Tickets - support the forum when booking your rail tickets!

    Its available at https://tickets-classic.railforums.co.uk/
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    Walking and Rambling discussion

    Strava.com has a heat map which shows which routes people have used when they have been using the app. You need to register and log in to view it, but it is free. It shows where people have been with a GPS that that have uploaded to Strava, and not where there is a public right of way, as...
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    No, but you can read the old ones online at https://retromash.com/argos/
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    Proposed new Channel Tunnel services discussion

    Connecting HS1 and HS2 has come up as a topic for discussion before, such as in this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/should-the-hs2-hs1-tunnel-under-london-be-uncancelled.283168/page-9#post-7226073 The consensus on that thread was that it is not plausible
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    New Station calendar

    It has been discussed in this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/east-west-rail-ewr-cambridge-bletchley-oxford-speculative-thread.301029/page-9#post-7754534
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    Formula 1

    David Coulthard suggested (I think he has a point) that if the safety car is at the end of the race, you just divert the lapped cars into the pit lane. They get their final position from when the safety car started. If they were also in the points, they wouldn't have the chance to improve their...
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    Cambridge South new station opening

    On the plus side, Cambridge South has electric hookups for food vans, so there isn't the drone of a petrol-engined generator outside the station, unlike Cambridge North.
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    Cambridge South new station opening

    That is an emergency evacuation bridge to leave the island platform if there is a fire on the main bridge. Passengers are allowed to use it, but it's not required for platform 1 as you can leave the platform through a gate.
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    Cambridge South new station opening

    There is space for extra gates to be installed if there is money. Apparently, the gates are really expensive to buy, so they weren't all fitted from the start. At the moment, they have some a solid metal gate which is normally kept locked.
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    Cambridge South new station opening

    In 15 minutes from 4.30pm on the hospital side, I counted 74 pedestrians, 4 cyclists and 3 people being dropped off by car. 32 pedestrians left the station in the same time. There was also a free electric shuttle minibus, that does laps around the campus. There weren't any passengers on that...
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    Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

    https://www.filminginengland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Appendix-4-2023-24-Average-Local-Production-Spend-Rate-Card_V4-1.pdf is a PDF file with some estimated rates for the cost of filming per day, and the overall budget for feature films, high end TV dramas, soaps etc. The "low" end for a...
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    Cambridge South new station opening

    From a Blue Sky search https://bsky.app/search?q=cambridge+south the barriers have GBR branding There are/were? also tote bags and badges on offer

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