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  1. backontrack

    What if, immediately post-privatisation, the TOCs had been divided differently?

    Recently, I've got a kick out of using the Internet Wayback Machine to go and view past operators' old websites. For those that I just barely remember, there's a wrinkle of nostalgia; for others, it's more social anthropology. There's something almost childlike and naïve in the way those past...
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    2023 Israel - Hamas / Hezbollah war

    Given what has already come to light about Israel's offensive, that's a horror-freezing thought.
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    2023 Israel - Hamas / Hezbollah war

    From The Grauniad: "We must call this what it is" and then he proceeds to not actually call it what it is... genocide.
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    Greater Anglia nationalisation updates

    It does make me wish that they'd begin by taking the failing TOCs in-hand. I mean, GA one of the first and XC dead last to be nationalised?
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    Defibrillator: lie detector
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    Travel ban for Altnabreac man who 'tortured' women

    Good that it's a criminal rather than a civic case this time.
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    People should avoid domestic flights (comparison with Caledonian Sleeper)

    The climate emergency is truly dire and doesn't bear thinking about it! Transport emissions are the UK's most stubborn emissions, so rail becomes very important. All the same, though, as much as collective action can shift the dial, we really need action from our politicians and from businesses...
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    Travel ban for Altnabreac man who 'tortured' women

    Yeah, he really did — said he genuinely thought the man was going to kill him and that he took a video once he'd left the house to try and record his emotional state. It's toe-curling reading.
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    Travel ban for Altnabreac man who 'tortured' women

    content warning — gender-based violence, domestic abuse, human trafficking, child abuse https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9dld3jgx8o Not the most important part of this story, but I'm sure people here will have read Dixe Wills' book Tiny Stations, an exploration of request stops that led to...
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    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    ...and they're not going to be getting any either.
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    Far North & Kyle lines get new passing loop

    Rare post from me. Here's some news from the north: Services from Inverness to Dingwall, Tain, Thurso, Wick, Plockton and Kyle of Lochalsh will be made more reliable when a passing loop is installed to the west of Inverness. The Delmore Loop will be opened in 2024...
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    Do branch lines contribute much financially to the greater network?

    Oh, we're not doing this again, are we? There's a lot of nuance in this particular case that gets ignored: the afterburn of a period of systematic unreliability circa 2014-17 caused by excessive single-line stretches and then-continuous crewing issues at Wick; the fact that the train actually...
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    End of the station's word!

    Maryport
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    I will give you that - you've got the majority of the answers correct. Kirkwall, Lewick, Stromness Hugh Town, St Just, Penzance Chepstow, Monmouth, Caldicot Kilkeel, Warrenpoint, Newtownhamilton Your floor :)
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    Football

    FT: Nottingham Forest 1 - 0 Arsenal (Grabban 83')
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    Cricket

    Ah no, you've earned the positive feeling :) A bowling masterclass from your lads, great captaincy from new leader Cummins and some excellent innings from your lesser batting lights. Honestly please don't let the English drama cloud it, there's going to be such a Western narrative of "England...
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    Cricket

    These batsmen - this shocking shower of batsmen - they don't even deserve to be ridiculed. They haven't earned that yet. None of this is funny. (Unless you're @Pakenhamtrain, that is.) And I've genuinely switched off the live text because I am being a bit kinder to myself this year, and trying...
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    Donald Trump and the aftermath of his presidency

    Truth Social won't gain him worldwide attention. Fox will be interested, but I'd imagine Trump is so desperate for finances that he'd probably paywall it, which would end up cutting off its attention. Otherwise, only GB News would really give a toss.

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