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    ScotRail HST Introduction - Updates & Discussion

    I believe I saw a training run on Wednesday 8th, about lunch time, between Dundee and Broughty Ferry, I was driving into Dundee and a HST went past in the opposite direction. It was only when it was passed that I realized that it was a short set. So I guess that it was going to Aberdeen.
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    TRIVIA: Hardest Rail lines to reinstate

    Whitstable Harbour to Canterbury. One of the first railway lines in the land. Health center built on the alignment at one end, bridges taken out, and Kent university slowly sinking into Tyler hill tunnel.
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    First rolling stock you can remember travelling on?

    My first trip was from Whitstable to Faversham to go train spotting with my dad. I don't remember anything of the actual journey, but I do remember being on the footbridge over the small engine shed when my dad saw a friend of his who invited us down to the shed and onto the footplate of a small...
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    Trivia:Remaining trains that divide/split

    Faversham used to have regular splitting and joining trains. The fasts from Victoria would 8 or 12 coaches, if 12 then 8 would split off and go down to Ramsgate ( or only 4 if an 8 coach) and the remaining 4 would go to Dover. In the up direction, the Dover portion would be first into the...
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    TRIVIA - Things you saw travelling on BR that you don't see today

    Ah forces discount, all you had to do was flash your ID card at the booking office to get it. Lost track of the times I used it to go for all night and day spotting trips up and down the western region as it was then. Summer weekends at Bristol T. M. Was my favorite, all the trains would change...
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    [Trivia] Stations named "X for Y" or have 2-for-the-price-of-1 names

    Whitstable & Tankerton and Swalecliffe and Chestfield next to each other on the north Kent coast line.
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    TRIVIA - Things you saw travelling on BR that you don't see today

    The train ferries being loaded and unloaded at Dover and Harwich

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