Blast at Liverpool Street station
(73 messages)
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:20:16 GMT
Sky News flash - Blast reported at Liverpool Street. St Pancras evacuated
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old signaks for the chop
(7 messages)
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 01:17:09 +0100
I live right next to the Medway/ Muddy Valley line and have a very quaint
oil powered semaphore signal just outside my window, still in use.
New colour light signals are now being built, so I assume my semaphore is
for ...
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CrossRail
(6 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:03:49 +0100
Anyone know if the CrossRail east-west project will now be completed before
the commencent of the 2012 Olympics?
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St Albans Abbey Community Rail Route
(18 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:33:29 +0000 (UTC)
The Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey line was launched as one of the
first Community rail routes today.
http://www.sra.gov.uk/news/2005/7/Comm_rail_first_lines
It celebrated by being closed all morning, because of a vehicle ...
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Update: London to Sheffield
(7 messages)
Date: 6 Jul 2005 13:01:56 -0700
Hi,
Well to update on my journey earlier this week, I'd have loved to go
from Kings Cross via Doncaster to Sheffield and get a great GNER
breakfast but my Standard ticket was route Chesterfield, for my sins.
Anyway, our ...
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Chiltern further revise emergency timetable
(4 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:47:46 +0100
Chiltern have further revised the emergency timetable, which can be
downloaded from their website as a PDF.
It starts tomorrow (thurs), and is only showing m-f services at
present.
Summary...
The "Sudburys" have ...
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Why is it so difficult to buy a ticket? - long
(14 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 20:40:07 +0100
I wish to travel between Sittingbourne (Kent) and Girvan (Ayrshire -
Scotland). The national rail journey planner shows a train leaving
Sittingbourne (for Victoria) at 8:31, using the 10:15 from Euston to
Carlisle, where ...
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New Signs for Marylebone
(91 messages)
Date: 6 Jul 2005 09:18:39 -0700
Today, at London Marylebone, I saw a load of signs layed out along the
platform in the Chiltern Railways style with 'London Marylebone'
written on them. The workmen were installing the signs and removing the
old ones that were ...
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Crewe - Nottingham
(32 messages)
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:52:30 GMT
Haven't had a CT rant for a couple of days, so here's a passing example.
Crewe - Nottingham suffered badly with bustitution through the winter.
Although train service is supposedly restored, it remains something of a
lottery ...
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Appleford Pagodas
(5 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:28:51 +0100
Does anyone know when the GWR pagoda shelters were removed from Appleford?
ISTR they had been cordoned off for some time due to rotten floors or
something. I'm surprised they weren't listed like the ones at Denham Golf
are ...
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connecting lines between the different underground lines
(18 messages)
Date: 6 Jul 2005 06:22:21 -0700
this is bound to be a subject that has cropped up on uk.r in the
past but is there anywhere that lists the various connections
between the different underground lines?
my copy of the fourth edition of the quail london track ...
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2016 London railways map - Crossrail to Twickenham?
(7 messages)
Date: 6 Jul 2005 05:30:30 -0700
http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/transport/docs/transportmap2016.pdf
As you can see, Crossrail has a new branch to Twickenham. I think that
a new station at Westbourne Park is overlooked, it would provide a new
fast link ...
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Olympic Games in London 2012 - implications for rail developments
(15 messages)
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:16:26 +0100
The Olympic Games will be held in London in 2012, as the British bid
has beaten those from Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow.
This presumably means that Crossrail (in whatever incarnation) will be
given the "green light"; ...
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London Olympics
(37 messages)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 12:59:46 +0100
Now that the IOC have announced that the 2012 Olympic will be held in
London, are there any rail upgrade schemes whose future was in the balance
and which will now get the go-ahead?
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Essex World Travel
(2 messages)
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:34:34 +0100
Does anyone know what happened to Essex World Travel who were on the
campus at Essex University in Colchester as correspondence has been
returned 'Gone away'?
Have they gone elsewhere or could it be that they have been taken ...
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Gerrards Cross update 6/7/05
(72 messages)
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 09:20:04 +0100
Most tunnel segments now removed from the hole, although a few remain
in tidy heaps. Being taken off-site on low-loaders but I do not know
where to. Large crane present for heavy lifts. The hole has tidy
layer of 5 or 6 ...
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Teignmouth(Devon) railway guard/driver assault
(2 messages)
Date: 5 Jul 2005 22:18:32 -0700
Been on holiday down in Devon.
Just managed to get this info from local telly,
that the train crew had been assaulted at the station.
Any local Devon lads and lasses
know any further details
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Rugby Staion Re-modeling
(7 messages)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 23:52:55 +0100
Does anyone have any info on the proposed plans to remodel Rugby station? I
would be interested to hear about exactly what is planned if anyone has
access to the details?
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Pics/Sounds of a Double-Headed 20, Anyone?
(10 messages)
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 21:28:56 +0000 (UTC)
Helloooo :-) Just found this group.
I used to work on the railway, as did my old man, but he joined later than I
and never saw/heard the delights of a double-headed 20 (as I think they
are/were called). Does anyone have ...
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Ticket question regarding break of journey
(9 messages)
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:02:20 +0100
I am going to Cornwall for 2 weeks in August, spending one week near
Truro and the second week near Looe. I am going to buy a return saver
ticket for myself and family from London to Truro. I understand that a
break of journey ...
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