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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Eastern?

    Moderator Note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/class-701-aventra-trains-for-south-western-railway.148717/ Strange post from Southeastern boss... https://twitter.com/SteveWhiteRail/status/1779045011943776324 What is he hinting?
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    80-90% of the rail network should be electrified

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mml-electrification-updates.110445/ Sure. But in country as densely populated as Britain, and with railways as intensely used as here, not electrified railways should should rather be exception, probably in some remote fringes of...
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    Lewisham military trestle bridge

    Only today I have learned why one of the rail bridges in Lewisham area looks so weird. This one: It was built by military as a quick replacement of previous bridge destroyed during the rail crash in 1957: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisham_rail_crash...
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    What is the length of railway lines in London?

    Hello fellow railway geeks. I was trying to search various websites but I can't find any figures. What is the length of passenger railway lines in London? We have 402 km of Underground, 48 km of DLR but then? There must be way more heavy rail lines. I was curious as I was reading about public...

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