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    Northern rolling stock changes post electrification

    319363 is heading south from Piccadilly towards MIA now. It's definitely slower than my 8:04 323 to Crewe ;-)
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    Northern/TPE Invitation to Tender published

    "Don't order 120 carriages of a 26m length because there's no way you'll get funding to extend the platforms on lines that won't immediately get them"
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    Jeremy Clarkson and the future of Top Gear

    Some say he threw a punch at a producer and that he had already has his final warning... all we know is that a Ripon School he was nicknamed The Stig. Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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    Jeremy Clarkson and the future of Top Gear

    Opening the format to a wider range of motor vehicles, I'd watch a pilot with a new lineup of May, Hammond, Ross Noble and Guy Martin. Both Noble and Martin are funnier and more Northern than Clarkson and would probably manage to maintain their customary levels of humour without resorting to...
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    Poster Of The Year

    I not there is no category for self-promotion or egotesticle, however self-nominating would be a key indication of eligibility.
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    My travel to Uni of Birmingham

    A fold-up bike should be easier to store at home, and will be easier to transport on Trains, which I assume the OP is keen to do...
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    My travel to Uni of Birmingham

    Canal paths are predominantly flat and vehicle-free. £140 will get you a single-speed folding bike from Decathlon: http://www.decathlon.co.uk/bfold-300-folding-bike-white-id_8328465.html Not as light or easy to fold/unfold as a Brompton, but 80% cheaper.
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    Locos with noses - why?

    Aerodynamics.
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    The Green party's rail policy & stance on Hs2 is a dishonest, dogmatic mess..

    The Green Party policy sheet is made up of proposals from members voted on my members. Where do the big three's clever and consistent policies come from? No wonder Bennett can't explain half her party's policies: she wasn't involved in crafting them!
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    smacking

    A smack doesn't hurt? You've probably got Stockholm Syndrome. I was beaten by my father. He became a pathetic feeble character once he was ejected from the family home and lost all authority over my siblings and I. We saw him for the bully he was. I now see my father as little as possible...
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    Sorry to bring up IEP design again but....

    Would there not be a performance advantage to having a tapering aerodynamically designed cowling filling that gap?
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    Northern/TPE Invitation to Tender published

    Using the infamous curve?
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    Northern rolling stock changes post electrification

    As an alternative, that completely misses the point of railways.
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    In Court Over Unpaid Fare

    I wonder whether the prosecutors found this thread, given the unlikelihood of any other similar cases being presented before the court on the same day with "Jordan" as a hint to the name...?
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    Creation of class 230 DEMUs from ex-LU D78s by Vivarail

    Physics says the average speed must be lower than the top speed if the start and end states are stationary, unless the top speed is 0.
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    Is electrification needed to avoid a DMU order by 2020?

    Hahahaha no. PPM have to be segregated from real trains because of crash safety. If they were a realistic option beyond isolated branches, there would have been at least a rumour since the Stourbridge pair were deployed years ago.
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    Creation of class 230 DEMUs from ex-LU D78s by Vivarail

    Per passenger mile? :roll:
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    Travelling with a bike box

    You could book it in as a bike reservation, although the variation in facilities between different rolling stock preclude any prediction of practicality.
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    Railways To Go Metric

    Base 16.

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