Incident Box tunnel(Bath area)
(1 messages)
Date: 24 Jun 2005 06:04:46 -0700
Both local news ITV West(1310pm) and BBC1 points west(1330pm) reporting
on a Paddington to Bristol late night service hitting something in the
tunnel.
For those who have Sky, both ITV West(6pm) and BBC1 points west(630pm ...
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WarringtonC - Hull - splitting tickets
(11 messages)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:52:21 GMT
Having just paid out the enormous sum of 16 for a VV14 ticket from Sandwich
to Liverpool for the middle of August, I was shocked to find that the
cheapest walk-on return fare from Warrington to Hull is going to cost me
almost ...
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ITV's The Last Train - derelict station?
(36 messages)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:12:47 +0100
ITV made a mini-series called The Last Train starring Nicola Walker,
James Halzeldine and Amita Dhiri, about a metor hitting the earth and
a group of punters on a train surviving because one of them was a
scientist who knew ...
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Effing It
(13 messages)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:13:10 +0100
Thanks to everyone who got back to me about my old pal John. He's been in
touch the last couple of days and we're going out for a couple tomorrow;
couple of beers, couple of slappers, you know the thing...
Anyway, I was just ...
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Midland Mainline delay
(2 messages)
Date: 23 Jun 2005 14:22:25 -0700
I'm awaiting a friend from the 7:30 St Pancras to Nottingham train
tonight (the first train where Savers are valid).
It's currently running 80 mins late. Does anyone know why?
...
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Heat Hell For Passengers
(4 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:06:46 +0100
According to:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13376537,00.html
"Train passengers trapped in carriages for two hours on a broken down
train were forced to break windows to escape as dozens fainted in the heat ...
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"Trapped train passengers smash windows"
(180 messages)
Date: 23 Jun 2005 14:06:36 -0700
http://www.itv.com/news/index_100459.html
Passengers trapped in carriages for two hours on a broken down train
have been forced to break windows to escape as dozens fainted in the
heat.
The 3.55pm GNER train from Newcastle ...
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Chaos today on ECML/WCML/MML
(4 messages)
Date: 23 Jun 2005 13:46:29 -0700
There has been chaos today on several mainlines:
- On the MML, power supply and track problems in the
Wellingborough/Market Harborough/Leicester areas mean that trains are
severely disrupted. One or two may be diverted via ...
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The "HST whistle" - what makes it
(32 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 21:10:01 +0100
As I was cycling past an HST setting off from Didcot, I was treated to the
full force of the "HST whistle" - the ear-splitting noise from each power
car as the train accelerates from rest.
This set me wondering: what part ...
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a nice distraction: is this anywhere?
(15 messages)
Date: 23 Jun 2005 11:28:10 -0700
EA games are making a new train simulator, and ive just looked at their
website and found this:
http://www.railsimulator.com/Images/wallp1_1280x960.jpg
Now, is this actually a place?
It looks like somewhere in the midlands ...
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WARNPASS: East Coast Farce
(92 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:50:51 +0000 (UTC)
Incoming phonecall from SWMBO on the 1703 departure from Kings Cross.
Currently stationery in the Sandy region. Overheads down on all four
tracks "somewhere upahead". WAGN terminating at Sandy and returning to
KX. GNER ...
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Class 150 Time Warp
(9 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:11:37 +0100
Last night I rode the 17:33 Manchester - Buxton aboard
150 272, presumably transferred from the eastern side of
'Northern' to the 'Western' and I felt a strange sense
of timewarp - Regional Railways livery! (which
seems ...
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Query re Rover Ticket Stock
(5 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:39:50 +0000 (UTC)
I've recently purchased a North East 7 Day Rover ticket and was expecting
to get the usual credit card size with the purple stripes and date boxes
on the reverse. Instead I got a normal credit card size (what I describe
as ...
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Scotrail Push Pull Formations
(47 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:14:41 +0100
I've managed to get together and make up a fair few Scotrail liveried
Mark 3s, about 6 of the all told, plus a Mk2 DBSO, as well as a Heljan
47/7.
Can anyone tell me if there was any set consist? The only thing I really
need ...
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Dart Valley Railway shares
(14 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:26:49 +0100
Anyone else here have these? If so, you should have just received an
offer to buy them at 13 each - a useful profit on the 1 they were
issued at in the 70s.
What is unclear to me is why this buyer is offering so much but ...
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Airedale line freight train failures 2 days running
(2 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:23:27 +0100
Yesterday, my usual 10 minute journey from Bradford to Saltaire took an
hour. A freight was 'broken down' between Keighley and Steeton&Silsden
apparently.
But the funny thing is that this happened the day before too, this ...
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Aintree Central
(15 messages)
Date: 23 Jun 2005 02:06:01 -0700
Has anybody got any pictures or history of this area?
...
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Sleeper Services debate in Parliament this week.
(51 messages)
Date: 23 Jun 2005 01:55:23 -0700
this morning, BBC R4's 'yesterday in parliament' slot had coverage of a
debate in westminster hall or such about the SRA's proposals for
sleeper services and so on. i think it was a lib-dem initated debate.
does anyone know ...
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Welsh (ex-)Kettle alert
(1 messages)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 05 02:15:37 GMT
S4C Digidol ($ky ch 151 or 104, depending on which side of Offa's Dyke
you are on, European viewers tune to 12131MHz 27500 V 2/3 on Astra 28.2deg)
Sunday 26 Jun 2005 15h00 (weekly series)
Cledrau Coll - Pontarddulais-Abertawe
"Another ...
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Excesses - just checking
(8 messages)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:34:19 GMT
Before I write to Virgin (again) advising them to better train their
staff, can someone just please confirm that I'm understanding excessing
correctly?
My sister had a Shrewsbury to Wilmslow return but we missed her intended ...
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