(Closed) Bishopgate station - Google and Live maps
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:24:44 +1000
Just having a look at the site of the closed Bishopgate station
Reference :
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=533655&y=182145&z=0&sv=TQ33658214&st=5&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
using maps.google.com (NOT the Google maps program) and Microsoft's
maps.live.com.
Using the closest zoom possible (i ...
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Fare Advice Dundee - Edinburgh Park
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
Had to go to a course yesterday so travelled Dundee to Edinburgh Park.
I didn't buy the tickets so I asked if the person who bought them made
sure they were purchased for Edinburgh Park as the tickets were only
marked Dundee to Edinburgh. The person who bought the tickets told me
that the ticket office person had ...
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RAIB report into Barrow on Soar lorry/bridge/train collision online
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:43:40 -0700 (PDT)
Report online at
http://www.raib.gov.uk/publications/investigation_reports/reports_2008/report182008.cfm
While the photos of the damaged cab of the 158 are no laughing matter,
I couldn't help having a wry smile at paragraph 9, page 6.
If the link don't work for you, ROT13:
"Gur pnhfny snpgbe jnf gung gur yb ...
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Electricity blackouts this winter? National Grid report shows nothing in reserve.
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:21:33 +0100
Homes could be plunged into darkness this winter as the nation faces
the shocking prospect of power cuts.
The warning, following the release of grim industry figures yesterday,
will dredge up memories of the last electricity crisis in 1974.
Then, households had to manage with candles, factories were put on
sh ...
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Re: St Pancras is the new Terminal Six
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:11:36 -0700 (PDT)
On 26 Sep, 00:24, Tony Polson <docnews2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> v.meld...@i.do.not.believe.it wrote:
>
> >Why not elevated runways ? ?The terminal buildings and surface transport could
> >be underneath.
>
> If you elevate the runways high enough, the aircraft would not need to
> descend to land.
>
> P ...
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Re: What he thinks of us
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:54:14 +0100
"simon" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>"Tony Polson" <docnews2011@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>news:r5mld4566nac3v4662b7rkpqijcdqcft69@4ax.com...
>> "simon" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Stimpy" <stimpy1997uk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>news:0001HW.C50061AF0230B951F0407648@news.eclipse.co.uk. ...
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Re: What he thinks of us
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:53:35 +0100
"simon" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>"Tom Barry" <illia@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:CUICk.101619$O51.66097@newsfe23.ams2...
>> As an aside, sometimes the mark of a leader is not in what talents they
>> have but who they appoint. In British politics (and management generally)
>> leadership is ov ...
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East West Rail
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:36:53 -0700 (PDT)
I raised a point with the MKP transport people today re progress and
costings. Now that the proposed number of trains per hour through the
single track Wolvercote tunnel has increased so dramatically and with
the proposal for freight how could they cope? The response was that it
is believed that by dropping the tr ...
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Stanier Princess Royal Class (photos)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:30:37 +0100
Hi All
I have added a further LMS collection to my Steam Loco website this time the
Princess Royal class, with photos by myself, Keith Till & Adrian Bradshaw
Full collection at
http://www.steamlocomotives.photos.gb.net/c1584687.html
Individual locos
46200 The Princess Royal at Crewe Works C1960 (Keith Till) ...
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Re: St Pancras is the new Terminal Six
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:21:35 -0700 (PDT)
On Sep 25, 9:18 pm, "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk>
wrote:
> Have you tried overlaying a map of Heathrow over a map of Docklands? I
> think that you would find such a process instructive.
You could leave out LHR's air freight area - and perhaps much of the
maintenance as well.
Tim ...
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