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    Lumo (West Coast) - passenger experiences

    The "shop" is in the luggage area between the passenger seats and the driver's cab in coach G. The lady just served through the open door. The buffet bar remains closed.
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    Loconundrum

    It does like trying to make you walk, from St Pancras to Waterloo it says train to to Blackfriars then 15 minutes walk, Marylebone to St Pancras 30 minutes walk!
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    Geoff Marshall Class 37 YouTube Video

    Great video, really enjoyed this - very jealous!
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    RealTimeTrains website

    what route does it calculate to be eight and a half miles different then?
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    RealTimeTrains website

    Thanks have let them know.
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    RealTimeTrains website

    Any idea which mileage is correct? (Images shows screenshot from Railmiles showing discrepancy between Brighton to London Bridge and return) Both via Quarry.
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    Francis Bourgeois and Chris Harris: We Saved a Train

    Everyone has to make a living i suppose, but it’s a shame someone who’s made his reputation as a crank is now working on the dullest transportation topic there is. Cars are cool apparently and you get loads of chicks….
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    Scanning Photographs

    Ok thanks am tinkering with a few things before planning to do it all on Sunday. House is very dusty and need to get some gloves for my grubby fingerprints. Your updated info makes sense as the good scan I had was reversed with emulsion down.
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    Scanning Photographs

    Hadn’t removed the cover what an idiot :lol: Thank you very much for all your advice @BeeBus will crack on and report back. :)
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    Scanning Photographs

    Next we tried scanning some film transparencies as I was getting frustrated with the glass plates. I tried the image in a variety of places on the scanner but always end up something like the following. The transparency is a colour positive so the settings seem correct to me? (I wish this thing...
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    Scanning Photographs

    Thanks for responding, connectivity issues have prevented me from posting this reply sooner. I took on board your advice about potentially scratching the scanner so fashioned a mask out of some card my uncle found. Does the card have to be white as it didn’t seem to work with the grey/brown...
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    Scanning Photographs

    It turns out most of images are on glass plates. From a bit of googling it seems that I’m just meant to lay it directly on the glass scanner bed which is what I have done here with a quick low res scan. The scanned image is coming out as a negative (the image on the plate is a negative). Some...
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    GSW route CAR-GLC

    Never been bombarded with so many insects and leaves flying through the windows, none of them even shut fully on the 156. Need to keep my mouth closed.
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    Thursday - hottest June day ever forecast and I've chosen Manchester to Brighton by train!

    Valley Gardens? Maybe by the end of the year....
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    Thursday - hottest June day ever forecast and I've chosen Manchester to Brighton by train!

    It's really hot here (33 degrees C at Shoreham weather station), there is a bit of a breeze but it's like a hairdryer!
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    Introducing RailUK Tickets - support the forum when booking your rail tickets!

    I’m glad you pushed back on that :rolleyes:
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    NW/Baltic Interrail Trip

    Sorted TYVM kind sir :)
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    NW/Baltic Interrail Trip

    What sites are you using to book please? The Rail Planner app is say no reservations available.
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    NW/Baltic Interrail Trip

    I’m having trouble finding a Eurostar reservation to get me back to STP on Sunday 26th July :( Plan is to depart from Düsseldorf that morning. Rather it wasn’t at the crack of dawn. Any advice please? (edit: had to leave it this late as required new passport only arrived today)
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    Beautifully terse :) 1782330511 Moan, moan, moan :D

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