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    Class 455 on Reading Waterloo Services

    Nice find! I don't have access to Google Earth right now but I now see that there's no SW orange/red swoosh on the east end of the train, only on the west end. Fits perfectly that it'd be some AI insanity.
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    LMS typeface

    Hi Mary, I'm using this image and this one as references. Most simply, you could contact Fox Transfers, who do model railway transfers of the lettering you want, and see if you could get their designs reproduced to life-size. I always think fonts never look as good as custom lettering designed...
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    Trivia: which railway station is furthest from the town it serves?

    Wondering now about the most inaccurately named 'Town' or 'Central' stations...I believe the Great Central was notorious for branding every station they could as 'Central' but I don't know how honest they were about it. Special prize for Acton Central which looks pretty well-placed on a map, but...
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    Class 455 on Reading Waterloo Services

    This may be a bit of a dumb question, but the current Google Maps image of Reading station (it's post-rebuilding) clearly shows a 3-car train in SWT livery occupying the southernmost SWT Reading platform. Anyone know what that could be? Have class 158/9s recently worked Reading-Brighton? The...
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    Discussion on electrification and the Marlow branch

    FGW have now said it's likely that Marlow will not be electrified. It appears that the idea of electrifying Greenford have also gone, but Henley and Windsor are still going forward. Does anyone know why? This won't please commuters down in Leafy Buckinghamshire (or Theresa May), though given...

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