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    Class 120 DMUs

    Thinking about it, it was probably a 120 I was on as a child in about 1976 which hit a cow somewhere near Caersws. My clear memory is that it only had two windows at the front, and we all took turns looking through until the driver put the blinds down.
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    The first ever WrestleMania took place in 1995 at Madison Square Garden. The main event was a tag-team match, and it had special guests as the timekeeper and the referee - who were they?
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Maryport?
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    I’ll keep guessing. Keswick
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Egremont?
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    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Every time you think we're reached the bottom, he finds a way to go lower
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    Class 120 DMUs

    I remember them having little mini buffet counters, although the only journey I recall on one would be late 1970s and between Nuneaton and Leicester. The buffet counter had a mirror on the side of it in what would nowadays be called the mid-century style
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    Reform UK discussion

    And in the whataboutery Labour example the protestor was removed by trained security. At the Reform conference the security were too slow to react - but that's what you get for £5 million these days ;)
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Digressing slightly, but my first holiday without my parents was in Scotland with my (female) then best friend in 1988. We stayed a night at the youth hostel at Garramore by Morar and we were stunned to be given a double room. It'd never crossed our minds they had anything but bunks in...
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Somewhere in Cumbria. Workington or Whitehaven?
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    Reform UK discussion

    Its interesting that Reform are now piling onto the demographics "issue" so beloved of racist grandad Lowe. https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/2099047519795736997?s=20 (Link is to a tweet by failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin highlighting the declining proportion of "white British kids" at...
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    Caledonian Sleeper Highlander – can I get off at Edinburgh?

    The Inverness and Aberdeen portions don’t allow passengers to join at Edinburgh, so if they’re ready to depart they often leave early. The Aberdeen looks to be 04:28 in the working timetable, and this morning it left at 04:25
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    Football

    It was hit firmly and right in the bottom corner - it was an exceptionally good save. Since the inception of the premier league 83% of penalties have been scored, so it’s hardly a rare event for a professional footballer not to score a penner And £19m is a bargain in the current (utterly...
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Yes it is, and yes it is (in parts at least) Over to you
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Sorry, only just seen this What is an Indusi system and where in the UK might you find one?
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    70% on time performance is of note, just not in the way you seem to think
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    Reform UK discussion

    It depends. If it was 52% the other way it’d be unacceptable
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Chester-le-Street
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    Reform UK discussion

    OK, so how do you actually achieve that?
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    Reform UK discussion

    I assume the reason you don't answer the question is because you don't have an answer for it?

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