The 16:05 Waterloo to Poole last night.
(12 messages)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:20:58 +0100
First time I have seen this happen, the guard decided that due to
overcrowding, seemed odd as I have seen a 5 car Wessie a hell of a lot more
packed 1st is declassified and all first class ticket holders are entilted
to ...
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Collapse of Gerrards Cross tunnel
(158 messages)
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:26:49 +0100
Photos taken early this morning are at
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.gorton/collapse.html
Travel chaos here with the station and all its approaches completely
cordoned off by BTP. Not even the replacement bus service is ...
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Metrolink News
(15 messages)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:07:07 +0100
Some progress at last - existing routes to be upgraded and a few new sets
purchased. Here's the press release:-
TM
AGMA / GMPTA PRESS RELEASE
30 June 2005
Transport chiefs welcome funding for major Metrolink upgrade
Metrolink ...
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Tickets to non-rail destinations
(5 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:56:59 +0100
I was always under the impression that it was possible to buy through
tickets to all of the bus and tram destinations listed at the back of
the NRT. However, enquiries about a ticket from York to Gateshead
elicited the response ...
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Fares query, Bath to Bristol
(4 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:17:19 +0100
Looking to online ticketing, the only fares available for a return
journey between Bath and Bristol that's not out and back the same day
are singles at 5 each way or for some reason a saver first return at
11.10 ... this ...
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Tunnel Collapse at Gerrards Cross
(215 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:14:04 GMT
I gather that a car has crashed into the new Tesco tunnel, causing a
collapse across the Chiltern Line at Gerrards X.
From Nationalrail....
Services are being disrupted in the Gerrards Cross area due to a tunnel
collapsing ...
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PRIV and Tax
(30 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:06:52 +0000 (UTC)
Following on from other posts about staff Privs.
Are they taxed?
The reason I ask is this.
Sitting in the pub today there was me, working for a TOC and unsafe guarded,
a fellow colleague and safe guarded and two other ...
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Level Crossing Incident
(2 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:58:10 GMT
BBC news24 reporting 1 fatality at level crossing in Hull area
Service was Doncaster to Scarborough. Incident between Thorne and Goole.
KW
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One dead in level crossing crash
(1 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:56:14 GMT
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4639545.stm>
A car driver has been killed and five train passengers injured in an
accident on a level crossing in East Yorkshire.
British Transport Police said the Doncaster to Scarborough ...
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Upper Tyndrum & Tyndrum Lower
(4 messages)
Date: 30 Jun 2005 12:12:13 -0700
I'm planning a trip up to the Tyndrum area and would need to walk
between the two stations there Upper Tyndrum & Tyndrum Lower, how long
would this normally take to walk?
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Train cuts Telewest Cable?
(12 messages)
Date: 30 Jun 2005 11:46:57 -0700
Posting through Google, so apologies if this has already been covered,
but we couldn't get internet at work today, first thing we we're told
IT didn't know what was happening (no change there then!)
Update at 11.50 "The fault ...
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Bradford-on-avon/Trowbridge(Wiltshire) assault
(2 messages)
Date: 30 Jun 2005 10:53:42 -0700
Only managed to pick up a portion of this.
Not sure which of the two stations it was, but a 70 year old man was
thrown onto railway tracks.
Incident happened 1030am or 1030pm tuesday just gone.
Two men have been interviwed ...
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Freedom of Information: WCRM moving block report now online
(7 messages)
Date: 30 Jun 2005 10:18:19 -0700
Now available to view at the Railways Archive is the infamous 1994
consultant's report which recommended moving block signalling for the
West Coast Route Modernisation (WCRM) - despite the system not existing
except on paper ...
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Fort William Sleeper
(4 messages)
Date: 30 Jun 2005 08:55:41 -0700
As I shall be giving it some ZZZZZZ's, does anyone know the booked
route around Glasgow for this train ???
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Steam and other specials
(4 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:45:43 +0100
Sorry if this is off topic: where can I find information about steam
and other specials before they run? We've had a few on the
Cambridge-Ely line that I've missed, and would like to photograph
them. TVMIA.
David
Cambridge ...
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Bridge Bash
(3 messages)
Date: 30 Jun 2005 08:22:07 -0700
Local radio (Rutland Radio) just announced there are delays on the
roads because a lorry has gotten itself wedged under Fosters Brdge. In
the same travel report they said trains were running OK.
Doesn't the railway get closed ...
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Road death toll hits record low - BBC
(19 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:08:38 +0100
From BBC News:
The number of people dying on UK roads fell to 3,221 last year - the
lowest since records began in 1926.
The figures are 8% lower than 2003, when the number of highway deaths
rose slightly compared to the ...
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Wanted: NRT Map
(13 messages)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:34:07 GMT
Hi there folks
I wonder if there's anyone out there who regularly buys the National
Rail Timetable and has one of the enclosed fold-out maps going spare?
Doesn't have to be this years map but as long as its fairly recent ...
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Trains stopping in wrong order?
(1 messages)
Date: 29 Jun 2005 15:18:30 -0700
The train below seems to have stopped at Stevenage on time, then
reversed to Peterboorugh to stop their late.
http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/term.aspx?T=KNGX++++&J=2794717&R=0
2146 arrival at London Kings ...
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Validity of FIP card on Central Trains
(23 messages)
Date: 29 Jun 2005 14:49:47 -0700
Hello! My Czech friend is a Czech Rail staff and she has a FIP card.
Can she use FIP card for travelling on Central Trains lines in July
2005? I called to Central Trains but they didn't know. They are a
member of ATOC so I ...
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