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    Great British Railways - First Train in New Livery

    Any interior differences?
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    European Sleeper experience

    I can't say I've seen many dancing puppets on my commute.
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    European Sleeper experience

    No-one complains about unrealistic airline adverts though.
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    9th August 1976 - 50 years of production HSTs in passenger service.

    The 125 Group are doing a railtour on 3 October from London to Swansea and back, with a passenger-carrying one-way move from St Pancras to Manchester the following day on the Project Rio route. https://125group.railtourtickets.uk/
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    English Riviera Express 08/7/2026

    A hot axle box will result in the locomotive being failed. It happens fairly regularly in these trains.
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    GBR Anglia

    Wonder when we'll see a double-unit train made of up of GBR units.
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    GBR Anglia

    You mean the act. The bill is heading for the Lords committee stage in September.
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    Great British Railways - First Train in New Livery

    Possibly but both GA and c2c were good operators anyway.
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    Great British Railways - First Train in New Livery

    357201 was parked at East Ham depot this evening.
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    Great British Railways - First Train in New Livery

    I caught a glimpse of a GBR unit today. I didn’t see more because I was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on my tablet. There's a joke here somewhere.
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    Bridge Strike between Fenchurch Street and West Ham High Level No C2C on all lines. (24/07/26)

    The combined management structure already exists for GBR Anglia, though.
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    Bridge Strike between Fenchurch Street and West Ham High Level No C2C on all lines. (24/07/26)

    Even more pedantically, they're all GBR trains now. We're in the middle of a regeneration, with Peter Davison covered in white make-up.
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    Seaspeed hovercraft

    Were these hovercraft used for freight at all? Including, I must ask, eels?
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    Bridge Strike between Fenchurch Street and West Ham High Level No C2C on all lines. (24/07/26)

    C2C and Elizabeth line use the same platforms at Stratford though.
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    GBR Anglia

    Changed at Shenfield. They already had LCD boards there, they've just changed the software.
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    Great British Railways - First Train in New Livery

    When NSE started, they just slapped decals on the front.
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    Old London to Paris Timetable before Eurostar

    The old station building is now Cruise Terminal 1.
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    Old London to Paris Timetable before Eurostar

    In 1900, France wasn't an hour ahead of the UK. Time in France In the early 1970s, they didn't use summer time at all there. Or in most of Europe.
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    FIRE FIGHTING WAGONS

    Frankly, it's probably cheaper to just not use steam in those conditions.
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    Trivia: Did this platform device actually exist? (Was "Is this a false memory?")

    Marylebone had them; they appear in a 1970 Doctor Who story in close detail as someone collapses against one.

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