Electrocuted on the tube, July 7?
(31 messages)
Date: 9 Aug 2005 06:11:44 -0700
The Australian press is reporting a senior transport official as saying
that two pax were electroocuted as they tried to walk to safety after
the 7/7 terror attacks. Did that get reported here in London?
eg, from http://tinyurl ...
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film:geordie
(4 messages)
Date: 9 Aug 2005 05:59:53 -0700
I pressed the wrong button on my telly when attempting to watch the
World Athletics, and caught a brief glimpse of a fim called Geordie on
Ch4. It showed what purported to be Tilbury Riverside station, with an
ex LMS 4F on ...
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Maglev - here we go again
(21 messages)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:56:19 +0100
A BBC report hints that the first Maglev main line in this country
could link Leeds with Manchester.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2005/08/05/travel_maglev_train_feature.shtml
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Regards
Mike
mikedotroebuckatgmxdotnet ...
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GNER Moving To VV Type Tickets?
(23 messages)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 12:40:26 +0100
An article in the current GNER 'Livewire' magazine:
"Finding a great-value fare shouldn't be taxing - that's why GNER is
changing to a simplified range of reduced-price fares that are as easy
to understand as they are to ...
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Gerrards Cross
(9 messages)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:04:33 GMT
Are there any updates as to progress recently after the tunnel collapse on
30 June ? Is Tesco's still online?
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Hambleton Junction
(17 messages)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:01:22 +0100
With nothing better to do on last night's 2330 KGX-Leeds, I was reading
an interview in GNER's 'Livewire' mag with their engineering manager
Tony Brown.
Towards the end of interview he says:
"GNER and Network Rail are ...
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Last Steam Train on the Watford DC Lines
(10 messages)
Date: 9 Aug 2005 01:06:23 -0700
One of those silly niggling questions as my 5 year old son said he saw
a steam train on the dc lines as we drove near Cardiff Road in Watford.
He was getting mixed up with the Met line but got me thinking. The dc
lines were ...
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Bristol Exhibition
(3 messages)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:38:51 +0000 (UTC)
For those interested in crafts and modelmaking, the Bristol Exhibition of
Model Engineering and Hobbies will be held at the Leisure Centre at
Thornbury, South Gloucestershire (just north of Bristol), on Friday,
Saturday ...
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Voyager performance with an engine down
(37 messages)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:30:59 +0100
The 14:52 Edinburgh to Birmingham had not a working engine in the lead
car. This made for a quieter than normal journey! It was a Super Voyager
- the sort that can tilt, but (IMO) usually don't!
It lost about 5 minutes ...
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Glasgow to London via Kilmarnock - Historic
(18 messages)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:16:44 +0100
Greetings
When I first travelled from Glasgow to London by train was in the very
late 1960s or very early 1970s. I clearly remember that the train
(Diesel) went through Kilmarnock and Dumfries, rather than taking the
present ...
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Carstairs Junction
(4 messages)
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:38:37 +0100
Greetings
It is well-known that Carstairs is evil, except for direct WCML trains.
However, I noticed that there is a very old formation that seemed to
provide a much better aligned link from the northbound WCML towards
Edinburgh ...
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Monster Moves
(12 messages)
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 22:30:58 GMT
Was anybody else completely gobsmacked at some of the haphazard
and seriously unsafe methods shown for moving some American locos
(and a station, to continue the railway link) in "Monster Moves"
on 5 tonight?
Chris
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Chris ...
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FA: Station Photos.
(2 messages)
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 22:50:52 +0100
Hi all,
I have some station photos for auction, if you are interested look at
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZpdsteveo
Berkeley Road 1956
Bovey Tracey
Cardiff 1922
Crumlin High Level 1960
Mountain Ash GWR 1922
Padstow ...
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Waterloo - Bristol TM
(9 messages)
Date: 8 Aug 2005 14:06:40 -0700
Hi,
Does anyone know the times of South West Trains' London
Waterloo-Bristol Temple Meads service, to go through the whole NRES
website listings will take ages!
Also, is this service cheaper, compared with FGW's fares?
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WiFi on trains
(5 messages)
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:28:16 +0100
Hi,
Which countries/companies are running onboard WiFi in Europe now, and which
system do they use? I know about GNER and SJ using the Icomera system and a
T-Mobile WiMAX trial on Southern in the UK, but those are the ...
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Ticket Gates & CCTV for West Coast Stations
(17 messages)
Date: 8 Aug 2005 09:52:29 -0700
Manned gates at Wolverhampton & Bham Intntnl, with more CCTV and Auto
gates at Coventry.
More at: http://www.railwaysonline.co.uk/news/news.asp?story=270
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Another 66 bites the dust
(4 messages)
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 15:47:26 GMT
UID 66 on the deck at Ashburys, Manchester.
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DAS,
All opinions are mine and mine alone
http://merseyjcn.fotopic.net/
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Overnight Break on Outward Journey
(11 messages)
Date: 8 Aug 2005 08:11:35 -0700
Using the NRE site for early moring trains to London frequently comes
up with a connection of, say, 5 hours overnight at a connecting
station. Many of these connection show that a SVR is valid although the
London connection ...
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The Times
(18 messages)
Date: 8 Aug 2005 06:09:23 -0700
Is there a reason that almost every TOC gives out complimentary copies
of The Times in First class, rather than any other paper?
(I'm not complaining, I like The Times)
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Slam-door trains still in use at Brighton
(1 messages)
Date: 8 Aug 2005 05:01:47 -0700
Went to Brighton over the weekend. There were quite a few old slam-door
type trains still being used for local services to/from Brighton. These
were all in the old white and yellow South Central livery. So there was
really ...
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