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Even Bath Spa!

The ones I remember seeing somewhere definitely were.

As I descend the stairs at Bristol Parkway, I currently often see an advert thanking the London Marathon for “showing up people with autism”. My understanding of the expression was that to “show someone up” was to highlight their failings or inadequacies (etc) with the intention of belittling...

Though platform height is a significant factor. Central European “low platforms” have no impact on the width of stock as they barely reach above rail height.

With a “circular”station like Waverley there is always going to be a “logic gap” somewhere - unless you number the separate ends completely separately. The “oddity” with the Waverley I grew up with was starting the numbering where it did - though that meant that the main London platform was “1”...

Never confuse what is said with what is done. The vital things that you’ve listed are, once gets into the detail, way above most people’s heads (including mine, I hasten to add). We have a party that is feeding off the notion that the “establishment” isn’t interested in their problems and a...

Shouldn’t that be “children under 5 travelling free”….?

The battery needs to be able to cope with the distance plus (maybe) supplying hotel power for a couple of hours on a winter night while a blockage is cleared and still be able to get to its destination. Ideally, it should be able to cope with at least one opportunity for recharging not being...

I’ve definitely seen something similar (though more official looking - with a red “sleeve” round the seats.) have a feeling that was Italy.

Given that the chance of someone actually having used the seat between cleans was pretty low, is that surprising. That said, I only remember seeing all the other surfaces being “cleaned” (pretty thoroughly by EMR; very perfunctorily at another TOC); not the seats.

… as a long-term quantity. I’d also. E tempted to exclude prototypes and “concept provers”.

Or sensible provision for the unexpected and a way of slowing the accumulation of mileage of all units….

Funding has not been the main reason for the sclerotic progress of the Bremen / Hamburg / Hannover “Ausbau” over the last 60 (yes, really!) years. No doubt that that lack of progress has pleased those who didn’t want to spend money, even though more will be spent in the long run.

Now the school holidays are presumably over, how are you getting on?

There can be few examples in Western Europe where a country has suddenly had to turn its long-term infrastructure on its head almost overnight as Germany had to in 1990. Western projects that weren’t already committed or critical to avoid immediate collapse had to be put on the back-burner for...

Have sympathy for those who have been holding their breath awaiting a capacity uplift between Hamburg and Hannover!

A lot will come down to who was talking to whom when names started being codified - just down the road from Tipton St J is Ottery St Mary (no ‘s at all) - I suspect that at one point both names were a bit like the modern day Tesco / Tesco’s and each has settled down by happenstance on different...

There were quite a few examples of that. Whether any /all of them actually got as far as formal closure procedures is another matter.

“Dear [TOC], I have set myself the task of using every British railway station by train. As [Stanlow & Thornton / IBM / Wedgwood etc] station is currently not served by train but still officially open, please arrange for two successive trains to stop so that I can complete my project”. Any harm...

Subsequent to the Summer only Dalesrail service, the currently open intermediates were reopened on a full time basis in (?) 1986, despite the ongoing closure proposals.