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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    I thought the S stock was quite problematic and units had to be sent back to Derby to have faults rectified.
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    Eurovision 2024 discussion.

    Lead vocals, at least, have to be live.
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    Trivia: Short Lived Bus Routes

    The number escapes me but First Wessex operated a service to Lanehouse/Wyke Village when South West Coaches withdrew the 206 as they couldn't make it pay, only ran as a trial for something like 6 months using a bus and driver from a school run (so infrequent and not suitable times for anyone who...
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Not surprised online used car sites are not doing well, why on earth would you buy a car sight unseen even if it has a money back guarantee.
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    Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

    Maybe a little chat to his team to tell them that if he does anything stupid then he better like a whole ton of trade tariffs imposed on America, or threaten them that they have an agreement with McDonalds to cut off his supply!
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    [Trivia] Unique Branch Lines

    Well the Looe branch goes from a station/track which is aligned 90º from the main part of the station, the guard has to operate points on part of the line to allow the train to continue, interestingly once this is done the train essentially travels in the same direction as it just left but on a...
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    Mobile Phone Coverage on Main Lines

    South west main line always seems poor to me which is interesting as bar the tunnels the Heart of the Wessex/Wessex Main Line Weymouth to Bristol gets good mobile reception even in areas where cows vastly outnumber humans,yet going through the BCP conurbation you'll be lucky if you can get a signal.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Quite, compain about immigrants when you are technically one yourself and you wish the natives weren't there is ludicrous.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    And given back to work quotas.
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    Do you think that the UK switching to electric vehicles is realistic?

    Our electric vans at work will still creep forward if the brake is not depressed if it's in drive, it's designed for when you are in traffic so that you only need to lift off the brake to creep forward. Bit of a strange feeling when I got one of the drivers to try it out and we were going slowly...
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    Double third rail query

    I suppose a simple way to isolate shoes on a unit would be to stick diodes on them, as they would prevent any DC current flowing back. Though whilst this would be simple there would be some voltage drop (so said diodes would probably need cooling, and efficiency would be further more reduced) on...
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    Electrical interference from railway - solutions?

    Also try to keep power cables away from audio cables, if the noise is being induced in the power cabling then keeping power and audio separate naturally keeps some of the noise away from where signals can be more vulnerable.
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    Michael Portillo's railway programme Geat British Railway journeys.

    Did find it midly amusing on a recent episode where he went to Axminster Station and preceded to immediately leave the town and go to Lyme Regis!
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    And given how well Derby was doing with Aventra production who would have wanted to order more?
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    South Pennine Community Transport

    At least all buses these days seem to have CCTV so unless you're covered from head to toe they should get good footage of the culprits.
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    Electrical interference from railway - solutions?

    Use of star quad cable and Neutrik EMC XLR's can also help.
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    Donald Trump and the aftermath of his presidency

    I don't want used bog roll!
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    Donald Trump and the aftermath of his presidency

    I assume Truss' book will be in the fiction section with all the fantasy novels. So Trump now has the endorsement of a failed leader, who next Prince Andrew?
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    Do you think that the UK switching to electric vehicles is realistic?

    They did, vibrates the seat when you crossed the white line.
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    Shortest UK car number plate you've seen

    There is a vehicle with the numberplate FK02YES, was on the Freelander Matt of Furious Driving acquired but he sold the plate.

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