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    Newhaven Harbour station - Britain's most insalubrious station entrance?

    It was never the most salubrious of stations anyway...a few things have conspired to its demise: the industrial area next to it has seen its fair share of, well, loss of industry - Parker Pen has been gone for years now; the lack of entrance to the ferry any more, and plans to build new...
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    BT wifi data shows which trains/stations you've used it's wifi on (e.g avanti)

    On a mobile network you are going to get IMEI and IMSI, or in 5G networks SUPI, 5G-GUTI and SUCI - the latter is an "concealed version of SUPI (5G's IMEI if you like)", but this is an optional feature. You can trace to the base station (and other base stations too for handover purposes), so...
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    Closure of Bransty Tunnel (near Whitehaven) expected until at least spring 2026

    I would be more worried if it were Peckham Springs.....
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    Qinglongqiao switchback (China)

    Don't know of any others, but that was an impressive ride up to Badaling. I have a couple of photos of those stations - would really like to have explored them.
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    Berlin Airport (BER) to Dresden

    I did this route earlier this year. Had to change at Sudkretuz and then caught one of the double deck IC EMUs to Dresden. The route was via Falkenberg (non-stop all the way)., and then from there along the freight only line to the junction east of Riesa and then direct to Dresden. On the way...
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    How does data get to small railway stations for departure boards?

    And in many places they put lines up above the tracks so that the Layer 1s can take a rest. RFC 1149 works best with UDP
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    "Devil's Bridge" Trefforest

    Thank you. Really much appreciated!
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    "Devil's Bridge" Trefforest

    Does anyone know whether a new bridge was put in place over the railway between Trefforest and Tonteg - the old bridge, known locally as Devil's Bridge was removed about 2-3 years back (IIRC there are picture of this being done, TfW site?). Looking at Google Streetview, it appears that the...
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    [SE/FI] Updated: Haparanda - Tornio trains funded, expected to start 2026

    VR are masters at playing the funding game.... the paths for the trains are already allocated however.
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    Annual railway station usage statistics for other countries.

    For Finland, in terms of gross numbers here: https://tieto.traficom.fi/fi/tilastot/liikenne-rataverkolla There are more detailed documents which go into passenger-KM. I can't find specifics for individual stations. I have seen these, but I'll need to hunt around a bit.
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    Finland "plans to" change to standard gauge

    It is 40kmh.... for some reason the speeds are divided by 10. I'm sure there is a reason - maybe the numbers are bigger, IDK
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    How to find the fare of a walk up Finland intercity train ticket

    There isn't quite simply. You can buy a ticket when you arrive - either by the VR app (recommended) or at a kiosk at the station. While VR uses demand based pricing, the difference for this route won't be that much. As for routes -- basically there would only be one valid route. Take the...
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    Finland "plans to" change to standard gauge

    Lulu Ranne is a member of the "True Finns" (Perus Suomalaiset) party - basically our version of Reform. They have been doing very badly in the polls recently, mainly due to lying about policies, cutting services which they said they wouldn't etc - usual stuff. Then, of course this idea that...
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    Trivia: Platforms you cannot freely 'roam'

    Hadley Wood's central platforms? Wikipedia states these are closed to public, but does anything stop there at all?
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    Calling all photographers!

    The trackside unit looks like a base station (GSM-R, LTE-R,5G ?). Don't recognise the model nor manufacturer though, so might be wrong.
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    South Wales Electrified Infrastructure "Pretty Ugly" - Local Residents Say.

    YES! Build a few large ultra-high power microwave towers and beam all that energy towards the train. Of course radio dispersion might be a problem, but it'll solve the NIMBY problem *and* reduce heating bills in houses near the track. The great thing about this is that we could modify the...
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    How does data get to small railway stations for departure boards?

    Bandwidth is pretty good....do you know how many SD cards you store in a coconut?
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    Return of the Allegro Train (Finland)

    VR have started marketing the return of the Sm7 Allegro (Pendolino) trains that used to run between Helsinki and St.Petersburg. They have been purchased back from Karelia Trains Oy (basically 50% VR, 50% Russian Railways), been refurbished and will start in traffic during the summer between...
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    Passenger rail miles - country by country table

    Wikipedia relies upon user contributions - it isn't really "publishing" anything itself. If you notice data, information, whatever, that is incorrect, out-of-date etc, please create yourself a Wikipedia account and update it - even adding links to the original sources like the Eurostat data is...
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    Day Trips from Milan recommendations

    Trip up to Como to the Como Lago station, have a wander through the old town and then back via Como San Giovanni (or even from there into Switzerland)

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