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  1. High Dyke

    How many manual gated level crossings are still in use today?

    About twelve across Lincolnshire. These are locations where the signaller/crossing keeper has to physically open and close the gates.
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    Station association

    Horsham is also the location of an art-deco signal box.
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    The Transport Game (UK)

    We next board the 05:53 Southern service (2A04) to Tonbridge arriving at 06:23 on Wednesday.
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    The Transport Game (UK)

    We enter the station and board the 23:20 South Western Railway service. We alight at Wokingham at 00:28 on Wednesday.
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    End of the station's word!

    Rotterdam Alexander (Netherlands)
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    Station association

    Wool railway station was also opened by the Southampton and Dorchester Railway.
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    Settlement Association

    We seemed to have made a quick return to the city of dreaming spires. Colin Dexter (1930–2017), wrote and set his Inspector Morse detective novels in Oxford. Dexter was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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    What made you happy today?

    Sitting watching proper cricket. Image: Trent Bridge cricket ground, Nottingham.
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    How do trackworkers communicate with radios?

    If it's separate work groups, then usually by normal mobile phone, no special equipment. On major projects some staff may be supplied with normal two-way radios.
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    The Transport Game (UK)

    We board the 19:45 Woolwich Ferry service and travel across the River Thames arriving at the Woolwich Ferry South Pier at 19:50 on Sunday
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    The Transport Game (UK)

    We exit the station and board the 15:51 Stagecoach London service 145 from Stop T and travel the length of the service, alighting at Dagenham Asda (Stop D) arriving at 17:08 on Sunday.
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    Rolling stock game

    Class 376 to Albany Park
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    Settlement Association

    Winchester appears in early Welsh literature and is commonly identified as the city of Cair Guinntguic listed among the 28 cities of Britain in the History of the Britons (commonly attributed to Nennius). In modern Welsh orthography, caer (or Cair) is usually written as a prefix, although it...
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    What does this sign mean?

    It was Nuneaton. Accident occurred 6th June 1975. The train approached a 20mph restriction at four times that speed, according to the report. In mitigation the lights on the warning board had failed, the driver assumed the restriction had been lifted. Three other trains had previously passed the...
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    Budget hotels discussion

    I agree. A few years ago myself and a number of work colleagues all met up in Birmingham for a night out. Most of them had booked the Brittania Hotel (New Street), so we all decided to meet there first. I was staying elsewhere, but found vagrants asleep in the hotel foyer and bar area when I...
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    Settlement Association

    A hoard of Iron Age items was also found buried in a field near the village of Melsonby, North Yorkshire.
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    Settlement Association

    Whilst the River Thames (or Isis) is an important watercourse in Oxford, so was the Oxford Canal. It runs to Hawkesbury in Warwickshire, where it joins the Coventry Canal.
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    AI-generated (not entirely realistic) railway images

    What if... London Underground became part of British Rail? Obviously some BR lines passed into LUL operation, and former LUL stock has / is run on the national rail network.
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    Station association

    Downham Market is another DfT Category E station that has services calling at Cambridge.
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    Rolling stock game

    Class 153 to Crianlarich.

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