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    Any members attending the TSTW meeting on Friday?

    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-a-public-transport-network-better-for-users-tickets-868166919627?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Making+a+Public+Transport+Network+Better+for+Users&aff=ebemoffollowpublishe...
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    Mick Lynch interview on BBC

    news,Hard talk early Wednesday morning at 04:30am
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    Bath Bristol Keynsham busses effected

    Due to first not being able to get busses out of the depot due to an accident on the main road
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    help london to Ipswich via Cambridge please

    Turned up at London Terminal for trip to Ipswich, I forgot to check for engineering work. So train to Stansted then bus to Witham then train to Ipswich. I could have gone London to Ipswich via Cambridge if I had checked. Could the Liverpool Street station help desk not have suggested to...
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    BBC breakfast News reporting LIVE from London Kings Cross station on Monday(2 January

    in connection with the fare increases.
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    Snowdonia railway feature on BBC

    Christmas day between 05:30 and 05:55 weather man Mick Miller sharing track work on the mountain during the close season.
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    Boxing day trains (WESTERN REGION) when did they stop?

    Question as in the header,thanks in advance.
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    Parliament to debate great western electrification 14 December 2016

    http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/inquiries/parliament-2015/great-western-railway-16-17/
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    HS1 to be sold?

    https://www.ft.com/content/5ed4e89e-bd36-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080
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    Rail fare increase: BBC breakfast News reporting from London Waterloo

    asking passengers about the planned increase's in train fares. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38180049
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    Plans announced about Royal Mail building at Bristol T.M.

    Plans for digital Inovation center at the former Royal Mail Building. Anything to make BTM a prettier place when visitors arrive by train. The above story is being reported on BBC Radio Bristol. May be further info on BBC Points west local News.
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    Brighton and Hove Albion's executive director has written a letter to Chris Grayling

    http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/martin-perry-southern-3433099.aspx Not my neck of the woods,so may I ask if there is an easy turn back facilities or loops for trains to turn back to Falmer? If extra (dare I say football specials) trains COULD be provided would they have to run...
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    BBC breakfast News reporting LIVE from Birmingham New street station Thursday 24 Nov

    Interviewing passengers on their views and thoughts of rail infrastructure projects in the light of the budget statement.
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    BBC reporting LIVE from Kidderminster

    Not sure of the location of the level crossing,as its not my area.
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    Stoke and Crewe tickets gates installed,Stafford still waiting?

    FOR INFO ONLY, Sorry if a few rail users are already aware. Don't normally make too many trips to the North West,noticed that Stoke on trent and Crewe now have tickets gates. Preston still having Manual ticket checks on the over bridge.
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    Sheffield station why no ticket gates?

    I know the trams have a big bearing on the situation, but even if it was Manual checks for the peak periods.
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    Barbara Windsor to be heard over the rail Network

    http://www.networkrail.co.uk/News/2016/Nov/Dame-Barbara-Windsor-and-Network-Rail-unite-to-support-Poppy-Day-Appeal/
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    Bordesley station is it closed?

    Trying to locate traiins from the above station,with no luck. Any help most wellcome,thanks in advance.
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    cost of upgrading track to passenger line

    The distance from Parson Street(Bristol) to Ashton stadium approx one mile. In my perfect World, have a "temporay" slope type platorm spilling out onto the grass verge before the Ashton Vale Road level crossing. I seem to remember a few years ago Over near Gloucester had a temporary...
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    directive for clearing snow

    Is their one? I have noticed over the years that platform staff will not brush/shovel snow onto the tracks. It may have been okay in years gone by, when the underneaths of trains didn't have so much electrics. Nowadays cleared snow onto the tracks could toss the flakes of snow into the...

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