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    Drugs test sent away for further tests

    Codeine metabalises to morphine in your body. A neurological condition necessitates my taking 8 x 30/500 co-codamol daily. Family used to take occassionally for pain relief until both son and daughter changed jobs. My daughter works in nuclear related defence industry And was told they could...
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    If you could reopen fifteen UK railway lines, which would they be?

    Oh come on! Does no one want Foxfield to Coniston, Haverthwaite to Plumpton or Otley to Arthington, Clapham to WCML, Arnside to Hincaster Jn, Harrogate to Lofthouse in Nidderdale, Wennington to Green Eyre. I keep banging on about these but they have merit, two touristy and one commutor the rest...
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    Frustration!

    err... well yes and no! Agree with much of what you've said but there's the matter of vacancies being posted late (very late) Fridays and shut Monday mornings. Or there again there's vacancies advertised " must be able to start....(two weeks time). These happen fairly often with driver (even...
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    Britain's Boring Preservation Movement

    Surely our unpredictable weather has a lot to do with this? Also, the mindset of most heritage operators is firmly locked (moderately successfully to date) in 'nostalgia', Heartbeat, Second World War weekends etc. The cost of manufacturing/converting coaching stock must deter many of them too...
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    Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway and Windermere cruise.

    Declaring interest here, the owners and staff at L&HR being good friends and I have worked on most of the Loco stock over 4 decades. The "demics" are generally given short shrift because storage is limited (and mostly of a linear nature beyond both tunnels) and also because it is a scenic...
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    Tornado tested at 100 mph overnight

    Grammar is important too. That would be 'on a par with'.
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    Northern Trainee Driver Job

    But then you are in the dubious business of giving a poste restente mail address in the area on your application. Doable but ......
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    Northern Trainee Driver Job

    Usual lockout if you answer no to living within 45 minutes. No option to offer to relocate.
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    Railway Stations Without Tracks!

    Also this place just outside Cowan Bridge on the former Ingleton line. (Kirby Lonsdale Station)
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    Railway Stations Without Tracks!

    Ahh but ... my suggestion isn't on that website:) edit: Either as Bardsea or Bardsea(Priory) Station
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    Railway Stations Without Tracks!

    The long, thin building in the centre of this view is (I believe) the short-lived Bardsea station formerly accessed over ulverston canal from Plumpton junction.
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    Platelayers Huts

    There's one on the disused bit of the Lakeside branch, just short of Ladysyke viaduct. It is brick built and in fair condition except that the concrete slab foundation has tilted in the bog at about 10 degrees. Also one near to the site that the Furness loco went down the mineshaft in Lindale...
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    The mystery of the man on the moor - with a railway connection

    Fascinating Guardian article. Reminds me of Ian Brady's comment that the landscape had "owned" him and "driven" him. Certainly not a place you can dismiss casually.
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    Least used double track line?

    Especially when someone then builds a by-pass over the single with a single span bridge, thus making doubling an almost certain no-no. The Barrow-Park South block being a prime example!:mad:
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    Leeds Station concourse and platform improvements

    Saw this image on Skyscraper City (usual disclaimer re copyright) Some change but I do somehow prefer the then as oppossed to the now.:sad::sad:
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    Accessing Rail Forums on Mobile

    Different I know but I have had to give up using Internet Explorer to access this site unless I use private browsing. Script errors flash up faster than I can close the window! This is the latest incarnation of Windows 10 and associated IE. Firefox isn't perfect unless in private. (WNXX forum...
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    DFT agrees to 30% revenue budget savings over next 4 years

    Actually isn't this good news for SOME people if some CP5 work is pushed ever more onto the CP6 back burner?
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    Any clues what this is ?

    We Serve motto has been that of the Internetional Lions since 1917 as you've no doubt found. Unfortunately this is so widespread it swamps google results:roll: Maybe it is a Scottish chapter of the Lions.
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    Is your life any less important than the Royals and other VIPs?

    As always with this topic of debate the anti-monarchists ignore the equal cost of protecting a president and his/her extended family. I live a few hundred yards from the child (elderly) of a former (now deceased) prime minister. I can assure you that protection was continued 30 years past this...
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    Viaduct question

    This one? You can see it from the Great Yorkshire Showground.https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.9772254,-1.505761,240m/data=!3m1!1e3 Also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/194060 Can't be more than a few miles from where they film at Harewood.

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