regional TOC's revenue protection-ticket gates
(27 messages)
Date: 9 Sep 2005 15:16:28 -0700
According to Ross, Lincoln is about to get ticket gates are any other
central trains stations getting them.Why has it taken CT so long?
Also I note the ATW state in their annual report they are to gate 14
stations. Finally ...
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actual footage of man being run over on GWML
(9 messages)
Date: 9 Sep 2005 14:44:34 -0700
In todays sun newspaper
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005410590,00.html
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Station Changes
(6 messages)
Date: 9 Sep 2005 13:22:06 -0700
>From Watford Observer Friday, September 9, 2005
Station Changes
TICKET offices at scores of London Tube stations will have their
opening hours dramatically slashed next year, as part of network-wide
plans by London Underground ...
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Current Service Alterations - Test Message
(1 messages)
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 20:02:33 +0000 (UTC)
From National Rail Enquiries:
Test Message Please Ignore
Time Reported: 14:28
Peter
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Class 37/4 to Blaenau 10 September
(19 messages)
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:00:29 GMT
'On Saturday 10 September, 2005, Arriva Trains Wales will operate a
Special Passenger Excursion along the full length of the Conwy Valley
Line from Llandudno to Blaenau Ffestiniog. 1Z39 Class 37/4 (drawn from
the Rhymney ...
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Retford railway group
(2 messages)
Date: 9 Sep 2005 10:40:53 -0700
Hello, I was wondering if anyone from the Retford railway group(or
anyone who knows) had any details of their website? It would also be of
interest to know if it is possible to rent a room for presentations and
discussion at ...
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Spain underground trains collide
(2 messages)
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:54:27 +0100
Last Updated: Friday, 9 September 2005, 12:56 GMT 13:56 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4229782.stm tells me
At least 29 people have been injured in a collision involving three
underground trains in the Spanish city ...
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Steamsounds web site updated
(1 messages)
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:14:43 +0100
It's Steamsounds Update time again!
At www.steamsounds.org.uk you will find some new recordings made in the last
few weeks including steam to Whitby and the return to the main line of one
of my favourite locos.
The Steamsounds ...
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71000 on MML?
(4 messages)
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:05:27 GMT
My local paper tells me that Duke of Gloucester will be hauling a
special from St Albans to Crewe via Nuneaton on Saturday, saying that
the train is operated by Kingfisher. Neither the Kingfisher web site
nor the Main Line ...
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Diesel loco noses - what's the deal?
(89 messages)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:37:06 +0100
Just been wondering why many of the early diesel locos in the UK had a nose,
(e.g. 37s, 44s, 45s, 46s, 55s) whereas any modern diesel or electric loco I
can think of doesn't. Having looked at a few photos of Deltics, the nose ...
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Compensation for cancelled journey
(62 messages)
Date: 8 Sep 2005 13:46:40 -0700
Hi,
I was on a Friday night sleeper from Euston to Inverness that brought
down power cables at Preston and got stuck. Given that this was also
the train I would be returning on on Sunday, and there was no guarentee
that ...
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Nobody would want to travel by train to the Sunday of the Oval Test
(16 messages)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:39:30 +0000 (UTC)
I've got a ticket for the fourth day of the Test Match. Researching how to
get there from Staffordshire reveals:
Birmingham-Euston diverted via Nuneaton, but no decent trains from Nuneaton
or anywhere else on the Trent Valley ...
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London 2012 Diagram
(1 messages)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:29:06 GMT
Fans of Mr Beck's diagram may, or may not, enjoy this vision of London
post 2012. It is big - some 900 kB.
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/2012legacymap.jpg>.
--
Goalie of the Century ...
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Dart Valley Railway plc - Share purchase offer - What Happened??
(38 messages)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 20:11:50 +0000 (UTC)
AS a shareholder in the DVR I received an offer to purchase shares at 13
each from Value Investments back in June.
About a week after a brief letter was received from the directors advising
shareholders not to sell.
I ...
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NSE Subsectors
(2 messages)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:10:25 +0100
I've come across something which is Network SouthEast related and it has
a small logo on it which looks like some mountains.
Anyone know what sub sector used a logo similar to this? Or can provide
me with a link to logos ...
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Amber Indicators at Dundee (again)
(1 messages)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:53:23 GMT
I saw these indicators in use (sort of) this morning. Monitor on P3
showing the 0800 to Edinburgh, but the train was the Royal Scotsman with
two Class 37s at the head. Both loco's were ahead of the signal, so I
immediately ...
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Re: on ebay station photographs
(1 messages)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:39:50 +0100
I've a selection of station photographs on ebay, all SECR ones.
If you are interested they are here
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZpdsteveo
Included are :-
Wye
West St Leonards
Kemsing
Snodland
Folkestone ...
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Southall - what happened in those six minutes
(7 messages)
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:22:37 +0100
Some very odd reporting of the Southall incident:
All three died from multiple injuries, the inquest heard, and
contrary to media reports, Mrs Sidhu was not expecting a third
child. She and her daughter ...
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Wimbledon Forecourt
(7 messages)
Date: 8 Sep 2005 09:56:06 -0700
Hi, just got this message through my site : -
"I am just about to go into my final year of the Diploma in
Architecture at
Nottingham University, and am currently researching my upcoming thesis
project. I am proposing to ...
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Birmingham to Stoke in 5 minutes!
(2 messages)
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:36:50 GMT
My usual train home tonight seems to have been retimed, has left Euston 1
hour early and will travel from New Street to Stoke in 5 minutes.
It usually leaves New Street at 18:43 but tonight it has changed to 18:28.
http://homepage ...
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