Metrolink & The Oldham Loop
(25 messages)
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:22:25 +0100
Evening All,
After recent comments about the capacity of the metrolink - 4 people per
square metre, I thought I might publish here for your delectation and
delight an article I wrote for RMT News.
Since the article was ...
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Kent Stock / VEPS / Networkers / Canterbury West (quite long)
(16 messages)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:56:58 +0100
I had a day out around Kent yesterday with the hope of taking in a few
of the final VEP workings and getting some photos in the sun.
Unfortunately, every diagram I went for which was likely to produce a
slammer failed to ...
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Railway Herald Out NOW
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:50:25 GMT
Railway Herald Issue 17 now out ( 11 pages - with an inbox size of 3372KB)
Subscribers will receive it within a short time in their email inbox.
Need to read more about the Herald or subscribe- Its FREE :-
http://www ...
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Discount DVD with October Issue of Railways Illustrated
(1 messages)
Date: 31 Aug 2005 11:55:08 -0700
Railways Illustrated's October 2005 issue (due out in the shops on
Friday 2nd September) carries two special offers for readers.
First is a specially produced DVD programme (running for 100 minutes)
featuring all new footage ...
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Windfarms and railways - blade hazard?
(206 messages)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:37:43 +0100
Hi, all,
There's a proposal to build a 12MW wind farm next to the WCML at Aston
Grange (near Weaver Junction, just north of Dutton Viaduct in Cheshire).
The four turbine towers would be 80m tall and the blades 45m radius ...
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Woman is killed by 100mph train
(73 messages)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:31:56 GMT
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4201632.stm>
A woman has been killed and a child critically injured when they were
hit by a train travelling at above 100mph.
The youngster, thought to be a two-year-old girl, ...
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My Lockerbie ticket saga ... Virgin replies!
(117 messages)
Date: 31 Aug 2005 04:05:48 -0700
Hi Folks,
Well, only a partial victory so far.
[To recap, I took the 16.45 Euston to Lockerbie train with a ticket to
Lockerbie, got off at Lockerbie, where the ticket office was closed,
reboarded and travelled to Edinburgh ...
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Wroxham - another bridge hit
(4 messages)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +0100
Bridge hit at Wroxham about 8.30 this morning. Sheringham line service
suspended. 153 306 out of service at North Walsham. Waiting for bridge
inspector coming up from Diss after yesterday's hit.
Not One's fault this time.
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Tangmere at Battersea
(2 messages)
Date: 31 Aug 2005 00:26:59 -0700
Going home from Clapham Junc yesterday I saw Tangmere heading south
just as we approached the Thames bridge on the West London line.
Tangmere was on a special on Monday and isn't due out again until 7
Sept (3 Sep trip shows ...
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New NRES Website
(47 messages)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:25:16 +0100
Well, it looks different...
The National Conditions of Carriage seem to be missing and the LDB,
especially the combined arrivals and depature board, seem to be very
confusing. ...
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Nuclear flask crash
(7 messages)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:27:54 +0100
Does anyone know where I might view the 'crash' stunt some 20? years
ago that was,I think, organised to show safe the flasks were? I am not
sure where it was filmed- but someone is bound to know here
Cheers Robin ...
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Dungeness Nuclear Train
(28 messages)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:49:26 +0100
Today on a random journey out we found ourselves down at the designer
outlet centre in Ashford. Just as we reached the main front entrance
about 5:50pm (had started from car park within) I dragged my friend
outside to show ...
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Southend Pier - pictures of '49 stock in '82
(4 messages)
Date: 30 Aug 2005 14:55:39 -0700
Both my parent's familie come from Southend, so I have many fond
memories of trips on the old pier trains in the sixties. I do return
from time to time, and did so today, to take some photos of the recent
developmentas at both ...
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VXC patronage down
(23 messages)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:42:33 +0000 (UTC)
Also in "Transit" this week: it would appear that Virgin CrossCountry
lost 20 per cent of their patronage during 2004/5, compared with 2003/4.
This is apparently due to "continuing changes to the scope of the
company's operation" ...
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Gerrards Cross - the bill
(28 messages)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:38:59 +0000 (UTC)
The latest number of "Transit" -
<http://www.landor.co.uk/transit/this_issue.html> - informs me that
Chiltern "will receive compensation payments of GBP 8.5m from
supermarket chain Tesco". This is made up of GBP 7m that's gone ...
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Where Is VWC & VCC Spare Stock Sited
(7 messages)
Date: 30 Aug 2005 12:47:12 -0700
Where abouts across the country are the spares units sited
VWC -
There are 53 units and 46 diagrams, leaving 7 somewhere around the
country.
My guesses;
Wembley - 2
Oxley - 1
Manchester - 2
Liverpool - 1
Glasgow ...
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Heartland Railtour
(4 messages)
Date: 30 Aug 2005 12:34:32 -0700
Seen on www.sulzerpower.com Heartland railtour from Wolves to Edinburgh
cancelled due to lack of train crew. What is the railway comming to?
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Sort of OT, Thameslink Lost Property
(1 messages)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:37:50 GMT
Hi all, I know this is probably worse than hopeless but bear with me.
On 19th of Aug I left a flight bag on a Thameslink unit coming back home mid
afternoon, I've reported it to Thameslink, Southern and KX LP, the
authorities ...
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Victoria-Sheerness-Ramsgate
(4 messages)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:23:10 +0100
In a couple of weeks time I want to go from London Victoria to Sheerness to
do some genealogy investigation and then go on to Ramsgate the same day in
order to catch the Southern Belle excursion next morning. Will I be able ...
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GPB1bn drive to shape the future of travel
(51 messages)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:59:46 GMT
<http://news.scotsman.com/glasgow.cfm?id=1861872005>
JIM MCBETH
A 1 BILLION vision of the future was unveiled yesterday in the shape
of Britain's biggest ever scheme for an integrated transport system to
satisfy everyone ...
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