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    High Speed 2

    But what good is an electrified GWML to anyone who does not live on the line?
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    The National Railway Museum

    I think the point may be that of the surviving APT vehicles, all are at Crewe except the power car at Shildon.
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    How can we improve the level of efficiency of our railways?

    There's an inconsistency there...
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    Band of Brothers

    And half the cast is British. Even the kid from Queen's Miracle video is in it.
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    Royal Train

    There's also the official Court Circular website here http://www.royal.gov.uk/LatestNewsandDiary/CourtCircular/Todaysevents.aspx Not particularly up to date, nothing later than 25th March.
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    What is this train and why does it take 7.5 hours to get from York to Kings Cross?

    Surely easier to show --:-- instead?
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    Newspaper Trains

    I don't know the distances but would the Penzance Aberdeen service be as far or further? That's if it ran in the 80s. I remember our school railway society going from Poole to Dundee and back inside of 24 hrs but as I joined the school after that (1983) I don't know if there was a change...
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    Long Distance Bus Routes

    That's why I said generally.
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    Long Distance Bus Routes

    They're generally "Express" services which don't stop at every bus stop.
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    Another reason why frieght should be on the railways

    Not necessarily. The only time I've ever seen it happen was when a car overtaking a truck pulled back into lane 1 before it had passed the truck and clipped its corner. Cue a cloud of tyre smoke from the car as it span to the left and became planted across the front of the truck. Incidentally...
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    Another reason why frieght should be on the railways

    Both points are valid but don't take into account the huge amount of money that fuel duty takes from the haulage industry.
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    Another reason why frieght should be on the railways

    It's not a waste of time. Been there, done that and it resulted in the offender getting pulled over for a talking to.
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    Long Distance Bus Routes

    First Group again, X53. Four and a half hour trip, four buses go the whole distance each way. The first two westward start at Weymouth, the third one at Osmington. Eastward the first and third start at Weymouth, the second starts at Lyme Regis. Last bus each way stops at Weymouth, penultimate...
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    What if the Beeching Axe never happened?

    Well, you've answered your own question there. He had a doctorate therefore he was entitled to be referred to as Dr Beeching.
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    Mallard to leave National Rail Museum

    Look at the last line of the quoted text in the very first post on this thread... :wink:
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    Mallard to leave National Rail Museum

    Sing for me Jeremy!
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    Mallard to leave National Rail Museum

    Repetition!
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    Class 220/1 mystery

    There was, it never made it to the point where it would have received a TOPS classification though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_BEMU
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    Band names

    You might have something there...
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    Classes not diagrammed to work in to/out of LONDON

    Well, the 421s are older.

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