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    New Platform At Barry

    Well the new platform is up and running. I find it very strange that trains can no longer access the Barry Island branch from the old down platform though. Asking for trouble if there's a points failure.
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    Video of long US train: "Are We Going To War....?"

    ......asks a man in this video.Please discuss.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trAHpeIDL18&feature=player_embedded trAHpeIDL18
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    Strange Destinations

    Back in the Wales & West days we used to work a train that left Treherbert at 0900 and terminated at Gunnislake.We all used to carry a list of stations served for PA annoucements.Never really worked out how to say St Budeaux.That's the trouble with the English,they haven't got easy to pronounce...
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    Avantix-Chip And Pin Woe

    We've had chip and pin handsets on ATW for about 18 months now.The are a nightmare on valley routes (station every 3 minutes,90-100 stops per diagram).After the morning peak I would estimate that only about 60% of cards go through without being declined.It then takes a ridiculous amount of time...
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    BTTC,Panorama and Eros

    Any older staff or children of rail staff remember the above outfits? They used to arrange holidays for staff and their families utilising their European travel concessions. I remember visiting Spain,France,Italy,Germany and Yugoslavia.We would never been able to afford to go abroad...
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    Interesting Film

    Found this on youtube earlier.The soundtrack is a bit irritating but what sets the film apart is the superb photography.Apologies if it has been posted before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXtK_h9rygk
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    Tension Between Staff And Enthusiasts On This Forum

    As a fairly new and admittedly sporadic poster I note with dismay the evident animosity between staff and enthusiasts on this forum.Much of this ill feeling is on display in answers to 150222's posts.I agree his posts could have have been worded better but despair at the hostility shown to him...
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    Arriva Trains Wales Strike

    www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11752786
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    Do You Think This Would Work?

    A few weeks ago I had the sad duty of attending the funeral of an old hand driver who was working at my depot when I started on the railway. Treherbert is now the terminus of the Rhondda Valley line but until the 60s the line continued through a tunnel at the end of the valley to emerge in...

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