Robin Sisson
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 00:32:20 -0700 (PDT)
I read with great regret the sad news of Robin Sisson's death.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/3191308.Tributes_to_rail_expert_Robin__50/
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Tributes to rail expert Robin, 50
7:11pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Tributes have been paid to a former teacher and railway campaigner who
died after being hit ...
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[PLUG]Steamsounds web site updated
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:18:15 +0100
Time for another update, this time with seven new recordings, made by me for
a change. These recordings are from last weekend at the Keighley & Worth
Valley Railway's 40th Anniversary Gala. You may already know that things
didn't quite go according to plan!
Follow the link to Latest Recordings at www.steamsound ...
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S E Route Codes: Randomised as Prelude to Withdrawal?
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:32:19 -0700 (PDT)
I have always been in favour of the use clear, simple route codes on
trains, corresponding to codes that also ought to appear on timetables
and PIS.
The purpose of these codes is not to inform people where the trains
go, but to enable people to identify a train when they already know
about where the trains go. ...
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Re: Beeching closure process
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:30:33 -0700 (PDT)
> The whole "parental choice" thing is a nonsense, of course.
Yes and no: when `specialist' schools have as their main admission
criteria distance, clearly it's not entirely sensible.
However, for those of us in metropolitan areas, rather than the vasty
wastes of rural desolation, it doesn't work badly eithe ...
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Re: Beeching closure process
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:11:40 -0700 (PDT)
> I have no authortative figures but there SEEM to be a lot more paranoid
> parents driving in their children now as the illegal stopping to drop-off
> has certainly increased, as has the frequency of letters home about bad
> parking and driving close to the school.
Lots of factors: there are many more two-car ...
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Quick Routing Question
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:36:56 -0700 (PDT)
Just a quick one is a standard cheap day return between Manchester and
Preston valid via Wigan??
Thanks in advance
Connaire ...
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Re: Cyclist crashes onto track
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:51:55 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 3, 9:47?pm, "Stephen" <newsmai...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> "MIG" <googles...@doreenbird.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Jul 3, 5:06 pm, "Stephen" <newsmai...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> > "Charlie Hulme" <i...@davenportstation.org.uk> w ...
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Re: Cyclist crashes onto track
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:46:29 -0700 (PDT)
On Jul 3, 9:41?pm, "Stephen" <newsmai...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> "MIG" <googles...@doreenbird.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Jul 3, 12:18 pm, "Stephen" <newsmai...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
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Re: Proposed use of the ELR as a Bury - Manchester Commuter Route
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:54:49 +0100
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:00:01 +0100, Charlie Hulme wrote in
<9dabk.182807$aE7.55301@newsfe16.ams2>, seen in uk.railway:
> Ross wrote:
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> > The cost of doing all that takes
> > it well out of the purview of anything a PTE could possibly afford to
> > subsidise, given that (realistically) the "subsidy" will have ...
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Theoretical Timings Perth-Oxford
Thu, 3 Jul 2008 14:37:34 -0700 (PDT)
Purely out of general interest, would a 170/3 travelling from Perth to
Oxford be capable of meeting or beating the following timings? The
x0.00 is only meant to indicate cumulative times rather than departure
times.
x0.00 Perth
x0.35 Stirling
x0.43 Larbert
x0.58 Cumbernauld
x1.20 Motherwell
x2.26 Carli ...
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