Portbury Dock working
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 20:35:20 +0100
Around 1020 yesterday I saw a train of empty coal hoppers going into
Portbury Dock. Odd thing was, it was being pushed (I couldn't see what
was doing the pushing).
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but is it possible ...
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Saver Return, Break of Journey overnight??
(7 messages)
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:36:02 GMT
At my local station today, women approaches ticket office and says she
wants to go from Leeds-Liverpool one day, Liverpool-Manchester next day,
then finally Manchester - Leeds the next day. The ticket guy advised
her that ...
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Why can stations be closed without formal authority?
(16 messages)
Date: 3 Aug 2005 12:20:36 -0700
Earlier this year Norton Bridge station was closed by stealth after the
footbridge was condemned as unsafe, and has been subsequently removed.
The SRA West Midlands Route Utilisation Strategy says there is no case
on cost grounds ...
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MAKE MONEY FAST, EASY AND LEGALLY!
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:04:30 +0200
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Radios on tains???
(15 messages)
Date: 3 Aug 2005 11:03:33 -0700
I regually travel on the WCML and I was wondering if anyone knew if DAB
radios worked on the trains. I like to listen to MW channels such as
Five Live and Talk Sport and they never work on a standard personal
radio. Is it worth ...
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37 years ago today - Aug 03 1968/ current rail events ?
(19 messages)
Date: 3 Aug 2005 10:55:36 -0700
hi all,
(Gosh it's been so long since I posted I could barely remember my
password, or rather which one it was. My A3 name was spot on though.)
Anyone else in the group there at Preston/Blackpool/Liverpool Exchange
on ...
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Railway Movements Site
(3 messages)
Date: 3 Aug 2005 10:37:32 -0700
Does anyone know wat has happened to the Railway Movements web site?
Shme to see it go.
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FA: Station Photos, auction ends Saturday.
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:37:40 +0100
Hi all,
I have a number of photographs for auction on ebay. Take a look at
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZpdsteveo
Listings include :-
Barry Docks 1922
Bath Green Park 1962
Blaenau Ffestiniog 1954
Bramley ...
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News article re 60163 Tornado on railway magasine cover
(3 messages)
Date: 3 Aug 2005 10:05:37 -0700
Thought others may be interested in reading this article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1535382,00.html
No picture sadly, but the front of the Railway magasine will show all,
apparently!
Quote from ...
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Get Paid Up To $500 Per Day
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:58:49 +0200
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Duke of GLOUCESTER fails today
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:47:28 +0100
The Duke was supposed to be hauling the Steam Dreams special to
Weymouth and suffered a steam pipe failure to the left cylinder close
to Southampton. She was rescued by a rather grubby (in comparison)
diesel and pulled, nearly ...
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$$$$$ NEED EXTRA INCOME $$$$$
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:40:49 +0200
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Steamsounds Update
(1 messages)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 14:34:39 +0100
Time for another Steamsounds Update!
At www.steamsounds.org.uk you will find a new page of recordings made in a
couple of my favourite places. The Steamsounds Steam Jukebox project is
getting nearer to completion. There ...
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Peterborough electrification
(5 messages)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:10:15 +0100
I don't have an opportunity to visit Peterborough in the next few weeks,
so I was hoping that other newsgroup subscribers might be able to answer
some questions for me.
The four running lines from the south are electrified ...
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Revenue Inspectors' Power of Arrest
(25 messages)
Date: 3 Aug 2005 03:55:19 -0700
Do Revenue Inspectors have the same power of arrest as ordinary people
(as defined in Section 24A of Serious Organised Crime and Police Act
2005), or do they have a special power above that to arrest people for
failing to provide ...
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SWT RPI trying to cheat me
(26 messages)
Date: 3 Aug 2005 00:44:26 -0700
This morning I was going to Woking on a Gatwick to Woking Open Return
(valid for a month) and the RPI guy started saying that the ticket
wasn't valid because it wasn't the date on the ticket. He didn't seem
to understand that ...
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Northern Sighting
(9 messages)
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC)
Not to sure where it was going but heading out of Victoria heading towards
Salford Central at 19:20 this evening was a former Arriva Trains Northern
142 still in the old Blue and Big Green N livery, think this is the first
time ...
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Any slam door trains on SWT?
(7 messages)
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:13:48 +0100
Are there any slam door trains left on the SWT network?
I went on "holiday" for a couple of weeks in April and I haven't seen let
alone travelled on a slam door train yet. I have however managed to see a
*few* (and I mean ...
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Silverlink Poster; SET Train?
(12 messages)
Date: 2 Aug 2005 12:35:29 -0700
We are used to the BBC using a third-rail electric train to illustrate
just about any railway story.
But a Silverlink poster I've recently noticed, dated May 2005, shows an
ABB 465/0 or 465/1 in NSE colours.
See http://www ...
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North Mersey Branch
(12 messages)
Date: 2 Aug 2005 11:58:06 -0700
North Mersey Branch is to be reopened for ballast trains working at
Ormskirk.
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