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    East-West Rail (EWR): Consultation updates [not speculation]

    The Cambridge Independent has an interview with Beth West, the East West Rail CEO She says: and It also covers the Northern and Southern routes into Cambridge.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    (edited - my first post had the quote attributed to Yew) In general, its best to attack ideas and not people. If anyone feels that a post crosses the line for what is acceptable, press the Report button and let one of the moderators take a look.
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    Ely North Junction upgrade alternatives

    The Queen Adelaide Traffic Report from 2018 says that in a during a typical weekday (12 hours 7am to 7pm), 5500 vehicles used one of the level crossings (5000 didn't).
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    Ely North Junction upgrade proposals

    "level crossing work" might mean a number of bridges over railways and rivers, rather than replacing a few barriers
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    British Railways Diagrammatic Railway Map

    Does it look like any of these maps? http://projectmapping.co.uk/Reviews/manchester_train_maps.html
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    Cricket

    In the series, there was one draw, Australia won tests by 2 wickets and 43 runs, England won tests by 3 wickets and 49 runs.
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    London To Basel & Zurich

    I've done that route a few times. It was nice to do it with one Sparpreis ticket from London to Basel, and would mean that I could meet up with colleagues in Cologne for a few hours. You now need to get a Eurostar ticket and then one from Brussels. The reliability for Deutsche Bahn in general...
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    Elon Musk - the world's "greatest" spiv?

    The blue twitter icon has returned for me
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    Snake on a train

    It has a rating of 2.2 out of 10 at IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0843873/
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    UK switching to electric vehicles discussion

    It doesn't say that they aim for all 6 of the chargers to work at high power at the same time.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Did you start by asking for one in a hardware shop?
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    I don't mind people who open their mouth to eat. Keeping it open while chewing though ...
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    Are Stadler products overrated?

    My father-in-law needs to use a rollator aid for walking. The 755s have been a leap forward for him, to be able to board at any door, without help, and without causing a delay. It makes travelling much less stressful.
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    Trip idea please! (Europe)

    There are some unofficial schematic maps of European rail networks at larstransportmaps.com. There are links to download them as PDF files. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/schematic-rail-maps-of-europe.251910 is a thread on them. Avignon TGV is easy to get to in a day. I stayed at the...
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    Schematic Rail Maps of Europe

    larstransportmaps.com has some unofficial schematic rail maps for various European countries. This is a new one of the weekday train services in Belgium
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    You can listen to those episodes from the WWW pages here (no Apple device or subscription is required): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-iraq-war/id1611374685?i=1000604227142 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/iraq-the-legacy/id1611374685?i=1000604422909
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    What’s in Ely MLF Papworth sidings?

    I went for a walk past Potters yesterday evening. From the path between Kingfisher Bridge and the bridge across the river, you can see some Networkers. From Queen Adelaide Way, there is a 180 nearest the river. From just beyond the bridge for lorries to enter the site, you can see Networkers...
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    What’s in Ely MLF Papworth sidings?

    The big footbridge bridge across the river has an encouraging sign that says that only 2 people should cross at once o_O
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    Alcohol on Romanian trains

    https://www.timisoara.esn.ro/what-not-do-romania says: https://www.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/8dp2uc/can_you_drink_on_trains_in_romania/ suggests that the enforcement is variable.
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    East-West Rail (EWR): Consultation updates [not speculation]

    This is from page 47 of the route-update-report.pdf

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