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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...
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...
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...
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
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!
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 ?
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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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