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  1. Elecman

    Used discounted ticket without Railcard

    whilst paying this had removed the risk of a criminal prosecution the train company could still check your travel history and start civil proceedings to recover the money previously lost due to your misdemeanours
  2. Elecman

    TfW potential future rolling stock procurements

    Best would be giving Alstom the Chester depot and buildings new depot for the 197s somewhere else
  3. Elecman

    Death rate at British Rail vs Coal Board in the 1980s

    Several PWay at Hellifield in one once sent and of course the entire S&T team at Edge Hill
  4. Elecman

    Birmingham New Street the worst UK station?

    Plenty of people use the bridge to change platforms
  5. Elecman

    Should the GBR Livery be Neutral Colours?

  6. Elecman

    Electrifying Mainlines for Battery Train operation (using Class 897 as an example

    I think you would need to drop that voltage level to around 19kV rather than 23kV as that voltage level is too often reached in normal service
  7. Elecman

    The mighty Class 74 (some questions!)

    Me too
  8. Elecman

    invalid railcard

    They will almost certainly will check your Trainline purchase history
  9. Elecman

    What can be done to improve the safety of user worked crossings?

    Higher Delacre UWG crossing is regularly misused. Closed the gates 4 times last week when Horse Boxes/cars/Lorrie’s crossed it and the only one who stopped only stopped because they saw me on my phone
  10. Elecman

    East-West Rail (EWR) countdown to entry into service

    DfT h eon ly themselves to blame for this mess by giving the operation to Chiltern, when EWR was developed the EWR company was supposed to design build and operate the line as a stand alone mini TOC . Had that happened the RMT would have had no leverage at all as it would have been a separate...
  11. Elecman

    Cambridge South : no parking (and local CCTV is dissuade anyone from stopping near by...)

    Correct
  12. Elecman

    All cross country services suspended 23/08/26

    Sadly the provisions of that act have proven illusory to the many members supposedly protected at companies formed out of BR at privatisation (Jarvis, Carillion and other companies as their pensions were found to be NOT protected at all.
  13. Elecman

    Marylebone Fire 28th Aug 26

    None
  14. Elecman

    All cross country services suspended 23/08/26

    Thier own office block at Lampblock by New Street Station
  15. Elecman

    Lewes derailment - Thursday 13th August

    Air Temperature
  16. Elecman

    Cambridge South new station opening

    Hollie bearer sleepers for taking cables through the track rather than digging an expensive Undertrack Crossing
  17. Elecman

    All cross country services suspended 23/08/26

    Lamp Block is the XC office at the side of New Street Station
  18. Elecman

    All cross country services suspended 23/08/26

    Why don’t XC just use Lamp Block ?
  19. Elecman

    Should GBR have a freight business? Is the sale of DB Cargo UK an opportunity to acquire one?

    DBs Doncaster Carolina Court is still open
  20. Elecman

    Should GBR have a freight business? Is the sale of DB Cargo UK an opportunity to acquire one?

    Network Rail aquiring all the DB yards and converting them to access to any freight company would be a good start

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