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    What if the railway was re-nationalised tomorrow?

    They will renationalise the railways the same day the trade unions decide to call it a day!
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    What Camera??

    ebay mate, i was in the same boat as you last year, picked up a canon 30d and a mid range zoom lens for about £280 bought seperatly, just take your time , do your research and wait for the right camera at the right price to appear, i went for the 30d because as a camera it is ideal to learn...
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    SWTrains 2nd stage of assessment please help

    Best of luck tomorrow Tagzy!, let us know how you got on ?
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    David Camerons National infrastructure plan

    announced today during his speech to the CBI, on top of the spending review which announced the continuation of the crossrail link, today he announced the money had been put in place for HS2 and major upgrades to the ECML WCML and london underground , All part of his new national infrastructure...
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    Crewe Station

    if you go to the northern end of platform 12 there is a path that leads to the car park, it goes over the footbridge from which you can see the avoiding lines, you also have a view of anything moving to the north of the station, decent spot for wagons as there is a 15mph limit on the line, just...
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    Tyseley Sawdust Blizzard!

    you may get some complaints sunday at the open day, although i believe there are engineering works on the line so don't know about train services that day
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    GCR's £15m reunification plan

    its getting to the stage now where it's more of a when than an if it will happen, hopefully the branch line will bring the financial support they are hoping for and they can push on, would be great to see and would would be a big boost to the east midlands economy!
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    Kings Cross for Nottingham?

    if EMT run it i would not imagine thats East coast would be happy with them stopping at peterbrough, none of the other operators that use the ecml stop there ( to the best of my knowledge) so would it not just be Nottingham -Grantham -KX ?
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    Tysley open day

    sorry if this has been covered but its the first i have heard of it 24th October 2010 http://www.shakespeareexpress.com/tlw_ods/next_od.htm hope this helps
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    Freight Spotting

    From Mansfield , Chesterfield would be your best bet I would have thought
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    Rare 37 mileage for anyone interested....

    http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/Events.aspx?ID=240 according to the website 37198 will be out and about at next weekends diesel gala on the great central, this loco is there as part of an overhaul contract and will be sporting a nice shiny NR yellow paint job ( although last time i saw it there...
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    ScotRail

    The applications use a word recognition programme, ie you need to include in your application a certain amount of key words which will more than likely be in the job description somewhere, most applications are rejected within 15 seconds of hitting the send button and don't even get read, it's...
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    New trains are needed now!

    TOC's are in the industry purely and simply to make money! they are not going to be interested in unreliable ageing locos however romantic the dream is, they want reliability and efficiency and you are not going to get that by using ageing stock, give them the longer franchises, give them the...
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    First Scotrail trainee conductor

    more than likely the resourcing department are waiting on results from first transpennine.
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    Things you wouldn't hear on the railways today....

    ladies and gentleman this is the gaurd speaking " today.... i will mostly be a wearing...speedo's"
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    Great Central... Nottingham?

    i think the biggest hurdle is that one is a registered charity and one is a registered business, i believe both sides would like to see it happen but its not as straight forward as building a bridge
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    Things you wouldn't hear on the railways today....

    ladies and gentleman, Due to the late arrival of on-train staff, today we will be leaving without them!
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    Carlisle - What Is The Best Day???

    when they restricted the travel north of lancaster because of the floods earlier in the year there was virtually no freight at all through stafford that day, chatting to 2 lads at nuneaton the next day who had stayed over night at stafford and the amount of workings was incredible compared to...
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    TPE employees

    Is there anyone here that works for transpennine Express and willing to give me 10 minutes of your time, Got an interview next wednesday and would like to pick your brains on the company and its operations, If you can help me out could you pm me your telephone number and a time that's suitable...
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    Why does everybody hate XC?

    for me the whole xc experience is dire, travelling on a less than half full train back from devon with mainly holiday makers you struggle to find room for suitcases, the costs are extortionate in comparison to other operators and where i live in the east midlands if you want to travel anywhere...

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