Re: Voyager Diversion
(9 messages)
Date: 25 Jul 2005 00:30:42 GMT
I'm interested in the reference to the Sheffield - Pontefract (Baghill)
- York line as the Dearne Valley Line. This is presumably mainly the
former Midland and North Eastern Joint route.
The Dearne Valley Line name is ...
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Why are class 321's so nasty?
(10 messages)
Date: 24 Jul 2005 17:01:42 -0700
Once you've been on another operators train and returned to a class
321, you feel like you've stepped from a limousine into a skoda. God
they're awful...
I had my first experience of a class 350 on friday evening working ...
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Glasgow - Stranraer, which units?
(2 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:01:20 +0000 (UTC)
Hi
As I may be travelling this line in a couple of weeks, I'm interested to
know whether class 156 are still rostered or whether it has gone over to
class 170.
Also, is Glasgow - Oban still class 156?
Thanks in advance
Chris
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Glasgow Central low level line
(7 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:49:51 GMT
For those who consider the right to roam more compelling that the
wording of notices, there is at the moment an opportunity to inspect
the trackbed and tunnel entrance of the former Caledonian Railway at
Partick (near Safeway ...
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Collectors Corner
(8 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:47:01 +0100
Interesting photo I scanned in for my dad - remember going up to CC with my
dad in the 1980s - I wonder how much those totems are worth now? Anybody
know when it closed down?
Paul
http://ukrailways.fotopic.net/p17914989.html
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Voyager Diversion
(6 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 19:52:44 GMT
Was going from Sheffield to Leeds on the 16.21 (Bournemouth - Glasgow)
voyager, scheduled to arrive in Leeds at 17.01.
Train stopped at Moorthorpe for about 10 minutes. Train Manager came on
to say that there was a points ...
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Allerton
(7 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:08:34 +0100
Local notices state that Allerton station will close on 1 August 2005,
whilst it is to be rebuilt as South Liverpool Parkway. It is due to reopen
in June 2006.
TEN months to rebuild a fairly minor station ?? Is that progress ...
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Duty Free Fags and Backy
(5 messages)
Date: 24 Jul 2005 10:08:13 -0700
Come to tttp://www.bestsmokez.com for the Top Brand 100% Cigaretts and
tobacco products.
200 B&H Inc P&P 脗拢24
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And Many More.
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Saver ticket validity
(20 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:53:27 +0100
Saver tickets are supposed to be available on off-peak trains only. In
which case, why can I not buy a Saver ticket (single or return) from
Canterbury to Tamworth for departure before 15:58 tomorrow? Has the
morning peak ...
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Last [?] Mk.1 stock overnight trains tonight
(7 messages)
Date: 24 Jul 2005 09:33:08 -0700
Tonight, that is overnight Sunday night to Monday morning, I am pretty
sure what are the last diagrammed UK trains with Mk.1 stock will take
place.
4Cig 1866 is presently (Sunday afternoon) on diagram that should lead
it ...
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"The Tube" TV Show
(1 messages)
Date: 24 Jul 2005 09:04:42 -0700
I know that filming was taking place a few months ago, and the last I
heard of it was that The Tube would be starting again on ITV1 London in
August. Anyone know when It's due to start?
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Request for those with "Red For Danger"
(33 messages)
Date: 24 Jul 2005 05:58:14 -0700
I am re-reading the classic "Red for Danger" by L T C Rolt as part of
my railways archive project, and on page 17 it refers to a letter
written by George Stephenson to the president of the Board of Trade. It
says that "this ...
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Central Trains Cycle reservation
(5 messages)
Date: 24 Jul 2005 05:41:38 -0700
I decided it might be a good idea to take my bike to Cambridge from
Stamford so called Central Trains to ask about it. The hope was that I
could take my bike today but if not I would travel without my bike
hence I wanted to ...
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Forth Bridge closes.
(46 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:35:47 GMT
Train services face eight days of disruption as the Forth Rail Bridge
closes for the longest period in its 115-year history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4704527.stm
--
DB.
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'The Five People You Meet In Heaven'
(20 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:22:54 +0100
I'm currently reading 'The Five People You Meet In Heaven' by Mitch
Albom, where the lead character is a maintenance man on a seaside
amusement park in the United States.
The book says that many amusement parks were built ...
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Hambleton - Horseshoe or Horsedoo?
(7 messages)
Date: 24 Jul 2005 02:42:49 -0700
I wonder whether GNER will at some stage be issuing a press release
along similar lines to the following?
Hambleton Horseshoe - A Correction
Some of our customers appear to have gained the impression that our
strategy ...
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Cambrian Railways Trust
(3 messages)
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:39:25 +0100
Hi,
Does anyone know fi they started their services yesterday? I was hoping
to take the kids today to experience a 101, seeing as it's chucking it
down and there's nothing else to do, and the wife's Jetlagged from her
biz ...
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First Pendolino Ride
(122 messages)
Date: 23 Jul 2005 14:35:23 -0700
I had my first Pendolino ride today. Couldn't believe it.
Cramped and claustrophobic. Three inches of window view and no room
for even a small person's shoulder. Why not take two inches off the
thick hollow wall to make ...
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Duke of Gloucester -London to Exeter
(4 messages)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:26:17 +0100
Anyone got any ideas to view this loco on its run tomorrow in the
yeovil area.
On the way back to London (from Yeovil Junction) it has a good climb
east of Sherborne in the early evening, but I was wondering about a
good vantage ...
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350113 as '55007 PINZA' & 350123 as '40012 AUREOL'
(4 messages)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 20:25:16 +0100
Nice to see the Desiro drivers having fun at Crewe today with the electronic
desination boards.350113 had 55007 on the front complete with PINZA
'nameplate' and 350123 had 40012 on the front complete with AUREOL
'nameplate'
Have ...
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