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ANNOUNCE: LT Museum Depot Open Weekend   (1 messages)   Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:30:20 +0100
London Transport's Museum will be holding an Open Weekend at the storage depot at Acton on 22-23 October, 11:00-17:00. Admission is 6.95 (concessions available). See http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/depot_open.html If ...

Reading to Waterloo (via Egham and Staines)   (8 messages)   Date: 14 Sep 2005 11:12:10 -0700
Hi all Up until four years ago, my grandparents lived outside the lovely town of Staines, and I used to travel with various combinations of family first by HST from Penzance to Reading, then on old mk1-based slam-door EMUs ...

Wagon type   (14 messages)   Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:01:23 GMT
Can some identify what type of wagon this is :- www.mjcook.co.uk/images/wagon.jpg ...

Carlisle to Gatwick   (15 messages)   Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:16:27 +0100
My daughter gets married this week-end and has decided where she wants to go on honeymoon, the problem is she can only fly from Gatwick. Anyone out there know the easiest way to Gatwick from Carlisle , times and prices? ...

VIA Rail train fire, Brighton, Ontario, 1994   (2 messages)   Date: 14 Sep 2005 14:34:54 GMT
One responder on the thread about today's incident at Goldthorpe asked what would have happened if the fuel from the tanks had ignited. In November 1994, a VIA Rail Toronto to Montreal express struck a piece of scrap ...

Read & deleted messages reappearing.   (42 messages)   Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:51:27 GMT
In this last few days I've experienced whole rafts of read, answered (if necessary) and deleted 'uk.railway' posts reappearing when I next log into the newsgroup In Box. I'm looking at them in Outlook Express v. 6.00.2900 ...

Trains via Chilterns to France?   (2 messages)   Date: 14 Sep 2005 04:29:27 -0700
There's a website here that i remember from years ago detailing plans to carry lorries on trains through the channel tunnel from places such as Liverpool and Manchester via Gerrards Cross! Could a service really work, and ...

Eurostar trains via Chilterns to Liverpool?   (13 messages)   Date: 14 Sep 2005 04:17:43 -0700
http://www.central-railway.co.uk/ Whatever happened to this planned project of through international eurostar-type trains travelling from Dover via Kensington Olympia to Manchester and Liverpool? The website is still there ...

re: Stations   (62 messages)   Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:32:12 +1200
Over the last 60 year, whenever I have been able to travel by train, I have gone to a Railway Station. Now, in some circles (media etc.) they are being called Train stations. Is this PC, evolution or what, Tony ...

Scrap Loco's   (20 messages)   Date: 13 Sep 2005 11:55:22 -0700
What happens to the bits, traction motors, engines etc, are they reused or just chopped up for scrap? ...

Voyager damaged at Goldthorpe   (16 messages)   Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:04:12 GMT
News coming through that a Voyager has been damaged by striking object(s) deliberately placed on line at Goldthorpe (S Yorks). When I returned from Leeds to Wakefield this afternoon at around 4pm they were already diverting ...

A couple of mileage questions...   (3 messages)   Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:42:10 +0100
Just been working out what I've 'done' this year, so wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of mileages for: 1)London Waterloo - Brussels (on the CTRL) and 2)Brussels - Oostende. I'm obviously putting the wrong ...

Fire at Victoria   (7 messages)   Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:23:18 GMT
Manchester Victoria, that is, anyway Man Vic is closed and evacuated due to fire in basement. Hope there are no Gas Bottles down there! KW ...

Parking at Finchley Central   (4 messages)   Date: 13 Sep 2005 03:38:23 -0700
I think there's usually room in the car park on a Saturday, failing that there are some areas nearby which have only weekday restrictions and if you get really stuck you can continue to East Finchley which has another big car park. ...

Southern Advertisment   (5 messages)   Date: 13 Sep 2005 02:30:43 -0700
I've just seen the Southern Railway advert on the Southern franchise of ITV. How many other companies are advertising on television now? I've seen Virgin's advert which is really clever. -- Nathan Whitington <>< ...

Southern Advertisment   (8 messages)   Date: 13 Sep 2005 02:30:43 -0700
I've just seen the Southern Railway advert on the Southern franchise of ITV. How many other companies are advertising on television now? I've seen Virgin's advert which is really clever. -- Nathan Whitington <>< ...

Haulage company buys bankrupt customer to maintain rail traffic   (2 messages)   Date: 13 Sep 2005 02:22:08 -0700
>From today's Glasgow Herald: Scottish transport group John G Russell has driven to the rescue of Norfrost, the Caithness freezer business....acquired the business from recievers KPMG for an undisclosed sum. He bought ...

To sand or not to sand?   (7 messages)   Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:18:09 GMT
Last week, I kept on noticing octagonal signs that either say "SAND" or have the word crossed out. Okay, even someone as dense as me can work out the meaning. What I can't figure out is the reason. What is it - why is sand ...

that class 87 trip to norwich.   (11 messages)   Date: 13 Sep 2005 02:05:09 -0700
so mike roebuck's advance gen was good. the plans for the acorp rail day in east anglia on september 25 and this monster tour [booked non-stop bothways from liverpool street to norwich] are in next months 'railway magazine' ...

BluePullman.co.uk   (2 messages)   Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:46:31 GMT
Just in case the relevant person lurks here.... Would the owner of www.bluepullman.co.uk please get in touch with me, johnk@pceffect.co.uk TIA, JohnK p.s. The registration details are via a holding company and we've tried that route! ...