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    Metrolink Canopies - Whitefield

    Interesting question raised by a civil engineer friend - setting aside how ugly they are, does anyone here know why the canopies at Whitefield station on the Manchester Metrolink are effectively built upside down - ie the 'roof' part of the canopy is attached to the underside of the steel beans...
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    Orange Avanti Moquette

    Excuse my feet - on a pendolino today coming back from Manchester and the leatherette is starting to come off some of the arm rests in standard on the refurbed seats. Apologies if I should know this, but was this an experimental colour moquette that was never used? Looks very much like London...
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    Max speed...

    I have a question which I'm sure someone here will easily answer... Is it possible for a regular passenger train (pendolino in this case) to exceed the max line running speed? I ask because we were on a late running service yesterday which made up about 15 minutes of lost time. We seemed to...

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