Unintended fare doding
(3 messages)
Date: 27 Aug 2005 17:26:00 -0700
Last Saturday, me and my partner travelled on the last service from
Kings Cross Thameslink to St. Albans (01.08). We needed two extensions
from Zone 6 to St Albans, but the ticket desk was obviously closed and
the automatic ...
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20 227 in Red
(7 messages)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:07:43 GMT
Help please.
I'm intending to paint a miniature class 20 into the Metropolitain
"Red" livery carried by this loco on the last Steam on the Met event.
Could / would anyone point me to any pix detailing said paint scheme?
TIA, David C. ...
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Tilt Retrofit
(6 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:43:23 +0100
Following from the various "rumours" about 9 car Meridians ending up in
North Wales, how easy/feasible is it for tilt packs to be fitted to enable
them to use fast paths on the WCML? After all, they are derivative of the ...
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West Somerset Express - Issue 38 - September 2005
(1 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:51:48 +0100
West Somerset Express
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The unofficial on line newsletter of the West Somerset Railway
Issue 38 - September 2005
West Somerset Express homepage -
http://trainsferriesbuses.co.uk/westsomersetexpress ...
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GNER Mallard - the verdict
(42 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:34:12 GMT
Well, a most pleasant trip to Edinburgh and back, care of First
Scotrail's nice little offer, rather enhanced by the Edinburgh Fringe
being in full swing (I hadn't realised). Most of it on time, as well,
give or take 10 minutes ...
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Savage rails cuts urged for North (more
(74 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:54:29 +0000 (UTC)
If anyone can remember my original post of the 6th August about this.
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.railway/browse_thread/thread/3503ec3cde57411b/a06d579fe6f7093f?q=Savage&rnum=1&hl=en#a06d579fe6f7093f
I now have a ...
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Gerrards Cross - the trains run again.
(8 messages)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 09:54:27 +0100
I have added a final page to the 'collapse' series which celebrates
the return of trains through Gerrards Cross. It is at
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/finale.html
Guy Gorton ...
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40145 to Kyle
(1 messages)
Date: 27 Aug 2005 09:24:36 -0700
40145 finally arrived at Kyle at 17:00. Fine storming run in the rain
My Lords
40138 & 40183
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St Pancras - Nottingham
(19 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:57:29 +0100
A question for the seasoned travellers who frequent the group.
I'm set to undertake the aforementioned journey mid-September, and quite
simply I was wondering if there's anything of particular interest along the
route that ...
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Odd stock on GWML yesterday
(4 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:29:29 GMT
Hi all,
I saw some very odd stock pass by while I was on the GWML yesterday (Friday
26th August).
1. While I was on the 1326 Twyford to Paddington, on the up reserve
between Twyford and Maidenhead, I saw something in ...
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New journey check service
(6 messages)
Date: 27 Aug 2005 06:34:27 -0700
I spotted the new journey check service on Wagn's website today, and
you can find out more about it at;
http://www.nexusalpha.co.uk/journeycheck/
The downside is that it doesn't currently work via the WAP or PDA
service ...
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London -> Worthing, Brighton -> London
(4 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:22:18 +0100
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me what the most appropriate/cheapest
ticket(s) are for this journey? London to Worthing this afternoon, Brrighton
to London on the 0400 service tomorrow morning.
I hope it's ...
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BBC NEWS | England | Cornwall | Two die after car plunges 30 feet
(11 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:15:11 +0100
Two people have died after the car they were travelling in plunged 30 feet
onto a railway line.
The tragedy happened at the Looe branch line in South East Cornwall.
Two other passengers are in hospital with serious injuries ...
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Steam through Stourbridge Friday
(12 messages)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:32:09 GMT
My friend says there was a steam loco through Old Hill on Friday morning,
probably a light engine, I did not hear it, does anybody know what it was?
Peter
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Platform Rebuilding at Carpenders Pk Watford dc Lines
(2 messages)
Date: 26 Aug 2005 15:58:47 -0700
k...@mwfree.net wrote:
>I don't think that anybody only going to Euston would be happy about
the additional expense of the Chalk Farm-Euston(Northern)bit apart from
the increased journey time.
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How many actually want ...
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Overtaking Implied in Timetable When Not Possible
(13 messages)
Date: 26 Aug 2005 14:56:12 -0700
In having to advise someone tonight which train to jump on for
Colchester out of the 2248 and 2300 from Liverpool Street, my opinion
was that a train in the platform is worth two in the timetable. In
this case, get on the ...
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Cambrian Steam
(54 messages)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 21:28:20 GMT
Popped down to Porthmadog this week to see one of the steam tours that
Arriva are running this Summer.
Loco was a BR Standard 2-6-0. I was looking at the Westinghouse brake
pump mounted under the cab and it got me wondering:
Did ...
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National Rail website imprvements
(3 messages)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:11:48 GMT
From http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
"New National Rail Enquiries website
National Rail Enquiries has been working to improve the website
accessibility, usability and navigation. In order to implement these
changes, it ...
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posting 20050826
(1 messages)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:43:38 PDT
"I wasn't trying to kill it when I was surrounding it, you know," Joshua sai
d. "I was just trying to check something. I was seeing if I could control it
like we control the frogs back home."
Van Doren stared at me for a few ...
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Southampton to Cambridge fares question
(9 messages)
Date: 26 Aug 2005 07:03:05 -0700
Possibly (not definite) travelling to Cambridge on Tuesday 6th
September, need to get there by 10.30am. Is there any way - e.g. an
advance ticket, or using the Clapham to Watford link then somehow
cutting across the northern ...
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