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    Weirdest Rail Rolling Stock and Infrastructure

    That's narrow gauge not a true monorail as it has two running surfaces. one either side of the slot. See the tunnel sections and you will see the two rails.
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    Furloughing in the UK - what is the current situation?

    Which is why the Daily Bigot readers call for people on Benefits to do workfare cleaning the streets and parks in return for their handouts.
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    Trivia: Busiest level crossings by both road and rail usage combined

    Not many people use it, as it is both streep and narrow. The underpass under Towngate Bridge is below sea level so tends to flood in heavy rain.
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    Weirdest Rail Rolling Stock and Infrastructure

    Two types of Monorail The Benniie Railplane on its Galgow test track, Louios Brennas Gyro Car Loco in London 1910,
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    Greater Anglia Class 755s (Regional Trains)

    You need somewhere for the wheels go, otherwise they will be tiny. These higher seat are like by people who have problem getting up or down. As they can sit on the seat and bring their legs around. It is normal for the pantograph to be raised so there is power for the AC.
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    Furloughing in the UK - what is the current situation?

    Its the employer who lining their pockets. When you can recover your housing layouts cost after two weeks, each caravan or hut brings in between £400 to £800 each week when you deduct the housing charge from the pay packet. With other deductions, the weekly pay packet is only about £100, this is...
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    Furloughing in the UK - what is the current situation?

    It is to the employers lining their pockets. You can buy a caravan not longer fit for the road dirt cheap (Less than £500), Park a row of them in a field each with their own water tap connected with a ex hire Shower and loo porter cabin in the middle of the site. With 3 to 6 people per caravan...
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    Furloughing in the UK - what is the current situation?

    That's due to pay levels in these jobs dropping. Take farming for example, they prefer to inport cheap labour for they make more money this way. Farm staff used to have tied homes, not anymore, Now the staff are packed in huts or caravans 4 to 8 in each one. These staff are than charged for this...
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    Your involvement in accidents in different modes of transport?

    Bus: On a school trip in the 1970's using routemaster when the bus driver made a wrong and went under a low bridge (Foot to low), ripping the roof off the first ten feet. Being in the 3rd row on the top deck, very much a brown trouser moment Train: 11th December 1988 was on the 17.32pm...
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    Furloughing in the UK - what is the current situation?

    Most Agencies did not put their non-working clients on furlough, zero hours contracts mean just that. Unemployment went up by over million within weeks of the start of the shut down.
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    Weirdest Rail Rolling Stock and Infrastructure

    Freight wagons carry steel that were hauled along short sections of the old Glasgow tramway network before it was closed by small electric locomotives to the shipyards from the nearest mainline freight yards.
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    Weirdest Rail Rolling Stock and Infrastructure

    There this unusual rail crossing in OZ, A drawbridge instead of a diamond crossing
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    Electrification fencing requirements??

    That is just one view of the story, In the modern retelling of the story, Ben Franklin’s kite is struck by lightning and the electrical current travels down the hemp rope to the metal key. When Franklin touched the key, he received an electrical shock. That’s probably not how it happened...
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    Class 745 Stadler FLIRTs

    "Right. Now pay attention, 007. I want you to take great care of this equipment. There are one or two rather special accessories..."
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    Electrification fencing requirements??

    On June 10, 1752 Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar(primitive capacitor) , enabling him to demonstrate the connection between lightning and electricity. Fly a kite string close to a high voltage line you collect the...
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    Tickets not available for sale from 7th September (checking Plymouth -> Chester)

    The New Street routing in all cases used Cross Country between Plymouth and New Street
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    Tickets not available for sale from 7th September (checking Plymouth -> Chester)

    You quoted 'Does anyone know when tickets for mid-October should be available on this route?' Which is what I searched for, dates used were 17th and 19th October. Both via New Street or Newport Via Newport
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    Tickets not available for sale from 7th September (checking Plymouth -> Chester)

    It's the Cross Country site thats the problem, try another site. The Great Northern site produced both timetable and fares for mid October.
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    Worst UK train?

    IET , Rock hard seats, poor or no buffet at all, Poor design of cycle space (The process of loading and unloading of cycles not taken in to account in the design process) As the interior colour and lighting, done by the office boy as it was the designers day off. The only train that required me...

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