Borders rail link from the air
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:11:05 +0100
http://maps.live.com/ now carries quality aerial coverage of the Borders
Rail Link route from Edinburgh through to Galashiels and on to its
proposed terminus at Tweedbank.
The coverage also covers the former Waverley Route for many more miles,
as far south as the site of a structure called Slitrig viaduct, ...
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Re: 3+2 (was What happened to "DMUs"?)
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:28:15 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 22, 11:43?am, D7666 <d7...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 12:46 pm, "David A Stocks" <dasto...@channel4.com> wrote:
>
> > The high-density Connex 377/1 variant (2 at the ends of vehicles, 3 in
> > the middle) don't appear on any of the Brighton or Coastway services that I
> > frequent, suggesting that th ...
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DfT Humiliated in Competition Commission report
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:12:23 +0100
Headlines in the latest edition of Rail MAgazine suggest that the
Competition Commission's investigation, initiated by the Department
for Transport into the train leasing market has come out firmly in
favour of the ROSCOs and is especially critical and damning of DfT
arrogance, hypocracy and mismanagement. It reck ...
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Re: How do we feel about these?
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:25:08 +0100
Charlie Hulme <info@davenportstation.org.uk> wrote:
>Tim Rogers wrote:
>
>>
>> Incidentally, I was there on July 21st taking pictures of the Western. There
>> were a number of Network Rail staff including one rather 'official' looking
>> one (he was in a suit!)
>
>They'd probably gone there to take pictu ...
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Forgot to relate this tale...
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:46:27 +0100
I think this might amuse/dismay some of you. Just couldn't/wouldn't have
happened in my day on the railways.
A driver and guard (One of whom is a friend of mine) were travelling
pass on a Virgin train the other week to pick up a return working. (I
think he said they were travelling to Stoke) Apparently it is ...
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Bridge Heights
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:32:22 +0100
As a truck driver I'm very aware of bridge heights and the heights of the
trailers that I'm pulling. I was once told that if a rail bridge is struck
then the TOCs charge the haulage company for the delay until the engineer
declares the bridge safe to use again. Any truth in this?
McKev
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Re: How do we feel about these?
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:28:21 +0100
In message <vi5ua4dffqqerb7876k5bcd1p1j9vobs1b@4ax.com>, at 21:16:48 on
Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Charles Ellson <charles@ellson.demon.co.uk> remarked:
>In this case the Metropolitan Police have presumably anticipated his
>presence at a place within their district (i.e. Heathrow Airport) and
>gone to the local beaks to g ...
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Re: How do we feel about these?
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:13:13 +0100
In message <eeCdnZ7UbZF5ujLVnZ2dnUVZ8tSdnZ2d@bt.com>, at 21:56:20 on
Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Peter Masson <peter.masson1@privacy.net> remarked:
>That doesn't address the question of what activities ancillary to waiting
>for the train are reasonable, and should not require express permission, and
>what aren't, but are n ...
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Re: How do we feel about these?
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:09:31 +0100
In message <k9aua4tdsf622s3p5icmalidi19bg7kjmc@4ax.com>, at 22:03:37 on
Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Charles Ellson <charles@ellson.demon.co.uk> remarked:
>Tieing your shoelaces is something that is incidental (it need not be
>inevitable) to your reasonable use of the premises.
And so is photography. I take pictures of t ...
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Finding traffic counts at named points?
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:07:04 +0100
Is there a way of finding out how many trains (of all types,
passenger, goods, regardless of TOC) pass along a particular section
of route or through a particular station without working it out from
the time-table?
For example, only a minority of trains passing through Grantham or
Newark stop at either stat ...
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