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    Flights you have been on

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    End of the station's word!

    Doncaster
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    Flights you have been on

    My daughter’s relatively new father in law (and he and I now share a granddaughter) was a captain for Monarch for 27 years and he said FNC was definitely a challenge!
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    End of the station's word!

    Not sure how I made that mistake sorry.
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    End of the station's word!

    Grantham
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    Flights you have been on

    Westerly approach then banked around to south and landed on normal runway. I thought the landing was excellent. Not too windy and not a rough landing. I suggest it was manual and not autopilot.
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    Flights you have been on

    Great flight today but interesting. First time I have flown Jet2. Manchester to Madeira. It was scheduled to be an A321 and I documented as such in flightmemory.com but captain told us the plane was stuck in Italy and to avoid incurring a very heavy delay used an available 737. This to me...
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    Electrifying Mainlines for Battery Train operation (using Class 897 as an example

    Pathing and capacity are certainly ( or should be) big considerations.
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    Fife Rail Electrification/Decarbonisation

    When I see notices of this sort go up, it really excites and encourages me. Great news.
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    Memories of diesels in the Highlands

    Now in my opinion, that really is seriously impressive.
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    British electrification OHL dates (mainly 25kV plus the most significant 1.5KV DC)

    I totally understand. Keeping stuff up to date used to be a labour of love but as I have got older has become more tedious sadly.
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    Memories of diesels in the Highlands

    Me neither. Class 37s in my era Yes and have photos which I must post.
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    End of the station's word!

    Needs a station starting with K in this game.
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    End of the station's word!

    Elverson Road (DLR) Ormskirk
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    Electrifying Mainlines for Battery Train operation (using Class 897 as an example

    At an absolute minimum it would need Marshall Meadows to be SFC / AT to be installed and commissioned.
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    Trivia. Stations which are busier at the weekends than in the week.

    During the illuminations, I am almost certain Blackpool (both north and south) are busier at weekends than weekdays.
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    Electrifying Mainlines for Battery Train operation (using Class 897 as an example

    You would think so -I am an electrification enthusiast. However, I will never on this forum use the dreaded phrase ---- en oh br ayn err !
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    End of the station's word!

    Yonkers (NY, USA, Amtrak)
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    Electrifying Mainlines for Battery Train operation (using Class 897 as an example

    Power consumed is directly proportional to velocity cubed iirc? (Please trust me, I do know the difference between energy and power) - also related to resistance/friction/drag etc.
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    End of the station's word!

    East India (DLR)

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