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I think the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer could shew you plenty more examples. I like it! I am that poster (there may be others) and claim my £5.

Hellifield. Extract from Wikipaedia: "During the 19th century, the railway revolution reached the village, which dramatically changed the growth and population changes of the small hamlet. The original railway station was located on Haw Lane, but in 1880 a new station replaced the old one.[6]...

Craven Arms, Shropshire. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Arms "Craven Arms is a relatively new town (for Shropshire), being only a small village "Newton" on a map of 1695. The settlement grew when the railways came during the mid to late 19th century, making it a railway town. Newton or...

Oh, come on! What happened to empathy and solidarity! Good on LNER.

The current one is my ring tone! :D

All these services in the first flush of privatisation. Have things "seized up" since then?

Also Manchester Pic to Waterloo via the Marches. Pretty sure it was operated by 158s.

How about one integrated franchise for the London based commuter services. I don't know, you could call it something like Network Southeast. It seems as though the whole mainline express offering could do with being more linked up with each other, allowing the regions to do their own thing...

Sometimes autocorrect (I assume that's what happened) is better than the intended version :D.

Just on the French television news: SNCF has placed an order with Alstom for 100 new TGV sets. The report didn't say what the type was that has been ordered, but I assume it would be the new AGV; the photos used certainly looked like those of the AGV I've seen previously.

I haven't seen this interesting snippet mentioned anywhere: apologies if it has. It was posted on Twitter by someone called Steven Swinford: Steven Swinford‏Compte certifié @Steven_Swinford "Cabinet rail misery update: Their journey back from Newcastle yesterday, which should have taken just...

There can't be many countries in the world that would build the essentials for a railway station under one of the country's main airport terminals and then leave it empty for years on end. "It's a disgrace", comes to mind ! :D

Not a regular user, but I caught a train from Tilehurst to Paddington just before 10h00 on Saturday. I was rather impressed with the 387 and stayed on all the way instead of changing at Reading. I think we arrived a little late, but it was a pleasant journey. I caught the 16h00 HST back which...

Putting my little Honda 70 motorbike in the guard's van (late 70s) when I couldn't be bothered to ride it down from Leeds to Abingdon. I usually had to travel in the van with it. Just think of the Health and Safety issues with that now! A potential petrol bomb on board.

BBC Business Live is reporting this morning that Apollo has abandoned any idea of pursuing FirstGroup. First's share price has slumped accordingly. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/business-44027774 (Entry at 8:34)

At the school I worked at, for years management wished to change the school day timings. They never manged to because of all the groups that needed to be consulted, the local bus company which runs the school buses saying it was impossible for them and the veto of one of the local primary...

I used the Overground on the North London line twice yesterday, and both sets had noticeable chugga-chugga noise, presumably coming from wheel flats.

I remember the viaduct being the main route to Westgate and King's X when I was a teenager in Leeds in the mid-70s. By the time of electrification, I had left. In what way was the viaduct "unsuitable" for electrification ?

Fair enough. My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek; maybe I should have used a smilie or two. I must say, I found Harbonite's comment unnecessarily patronising. There are all sorts of people on this forum, from those that work in the industry and clearly have a deep knowledge of how things work...

Meaning ? Do tell !