Robin Hood Line
(36 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:33:00 GMT
For the leaf fall season this year, CT is to reduce the off peak service on
Robin Hood Line by half. Yes, 50% of trains cancelled. What are many
passengers meant to do each autumn - hibernate?
CT can get away with this ...
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Main Line Steam Loco Headlights
(1 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 15:03:19 -0700
Hello
I seem to remember that someone once made a battery powered halogen
headlamp for main line steam locos that fitted into the traditional
lamp box.
Are these now standard for main line steam runs, or is there some other
method ...
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2 tickets for one journey 'illegal'?
(56 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:38:26 +0100
Apologies in advance if it's come up before, I've googled and checked in the
fares manual/conditions of carriage, but can't find it
Travelling to London today I did the usual buying two tickets for different
parts of the ...
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Train driver's children 'in cab'
(41 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:20:26 GMT
Train driver's children 'in cab'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4218494.stm
A train driver who allegedly let his two young children ride in his cab is
being investigated.
Dennis Barnes, 37, was reported to ...
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Getting a Euro-Domino in the south east
(48 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 13:42:55 -0700
What is the best place to get a Euro-Domino (specifically Germany) in
London and the South East?
I used to go to Gatwick travel centre a few years ago but it appears
that they no longer sell Euro-Dominos.
Of course there ...
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Hst 2+9 to Aberdeen
(5 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:27:44 +0100
I recently travelled on a GNER HST from London to Aberdeen. At
Inverkeithing I got off the train to unload a suitcase for an old lady and
was surprised to see that the train was too long for the platform. As a
2+9 HST ...
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OT : New Orleans bus+rail station now a jail (integrated transport!)
(12 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 19:54:16 +0200
I found this story today at the quoted URL:
http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=3811261&nav=0aWUeBI6
At the Train Station, New Orleans' New Jail is Open for Business
NEW ORLEANS (AP)
After being criticized over the ...
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Welsh Highland Railway reaches 1 million funding milestone
(36 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:49:01 +0100
I understand that the Welsh Highland Railway has reached its target of
raising 1 million in a very short time, and that the final phase of
extensions to Porthmadog via Beddgelert can now begin.
The completion of the fundraising ...
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Take your children to work day
(2 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:51:48 +0100
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4218494.stm
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Network Rail guilty over Hatfield
(67 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 05:56:53 -0700
>From BBC News Website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4219352.stm
"The Old Bailey trial got under way in January this year
Network Rail has been found guilty of breaching health and safety
legislation over the Hatfield crash ...
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Journey Planner improvement suggestions
(2 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:36:56 +0100
I sent the following using National Rail Enquiries Online's feedback form:
"""
I have a few questions on the journey planner. First, would it be
possible to use three-letter station codes when planning journeys just
like ...
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Saver validity questions
(21 messages)
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:42:06 GMT
Hi all,
Just a query about savers. If the "main" TOC sets a morning peak
restriction, how does this relate to a restriction on connecting services?
Some practical examples:
1. A SVR from Twyford to Leeds, routed via London ...
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Words of welcome for the benefit of new readers
(1 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 09:20:55 +0000 (UTC)
Time again, I think, for my occasional words of welcome to new readers.
If you've recently joined our merry band on uk.railway, Welcome!
I hope you will enjoy reading and posting here.
Just as on the real railway, we have ...
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Discount fares for Disabled People without railcard
(5 messages)
Date: 6 Sep 2005 00:40:04 -0700
According to:
http://www.atoc.org/traveltrade/newsrail/pdfs/ne291_25_06_05.pdf
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DISCOUNT FARES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE A DISABLED PERSONS
RAILCARD
Please remember the following discounts ...
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Northern Unit Shortages
(4 messages)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 07:36:46 +0000 (UTC)
Is there any particular reason why virtually every weekday morning Northern
Trains seem to have to either cancell or curtail services due to Unit
Shortages, is this just a problem Northern have or do other Train operators
have ...
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Cornbrook tram station now open (Manchester)
(2 messages)
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:46:18 +0100
Yes, 'tis true, they've finally opened up Cornbrook tram station
properly. Passengers are no longer limited to changing between lines
there, they can actually get to and from the street now.
For some reason this momentous ...
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More Tube lines now have live ETA boards
(26 messages)
Date: 5 Sep 2005 14:16:17 -0700
The Bakerloo line is now joined by the Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern
and Victoria lines in having 'live' ETA Boards (the Tube equivalent of
National Rail's Live Departure Boards).
There's web, WAP and PDA versions available ...
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National Fares Manual
(1 messages)
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:34:20 +0000 (UTC)
NFM 91 is due out this month, to take effect from 25 September.
Distribution is now being handled by The Stationery Office (/not/
Teamwork Handling as it says on my site at
<http://www.joyce.whitchurch.btinternet.co.uk/private ...
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Voyager thorugh Nuneaton
(5 messages)
Date: 5 Sep 2005 11:53:31 -0700
This morning at 07:45, a Virgin Voyager passed through platform 6 at
Nuneaton, travelling from the Leicester line towards Birmingham.
Does anyone know what a Voyager was doing in this neck of the woods?
Was it diverted from ...
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More cuts proposed in Northumberland.
(2 messages)
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 17:42:06 +0000 (UTC)
Not just content with wanting to close all stations on the ECML in
Northumberland (Morpeth, Alnmouth & Berwick excepted).
The SRA have come up with another parting shot. This time to replace stops
at stations west of Hexham ...
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