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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    That would be nice, except that lots of big jobs have always been contracted out! (Was the GWR electrification fiasco designed and built primarily in-house? I ask because - ISTR - the "civils" calculations for the masts got things so wrong that they used far more steel (and money) than was...
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    Comments being made this morning that the bridge itself was sound, just that ships have got very much bigger and the precautions against one being damaged by them haven't kept up. Which begs the question: "is it actually practicable to build a defence against that much mass impacting the base?"...
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    Night buses outside of London

    in which case it is strange that the (Stagecoach) timetable makes no mention of an N12. And I suppose that running at midnight, 1 and 2 am then a gap until 0528 does make it a sort of a night bus. Similar gap the other way from Paignton, worse from Brixham, but I guess it is to serve the...
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    Night buses outside of London

    The 12 is not a dedicated night service (it runs through the day, doesn't have "N" in its number) and doesn't run between 2 and 5 am. So it's neither a 24-hour service nor a dedicated night service.
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    DfT press release on Northern Powerhouse Rail

    "delivery will be subject to securing consent and the approval of future business cases" is absolute tosh. Either the need is established or it has been promised and they want it built (in which case JFDI) or they are putting in excuses to not do it just in case they find themselves back in...
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    Night buses outside of London

    Try reading the OP again then. I would have thought that "a 'proper' 24 hour service" implied regular services through the night. No?
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    Night buses outside of London

    Really? the current timetable https://tiscon-maps-stagecoachbus.s3.amazonaws.com/Timetables/South%20West/September23/12%20030923.pdf says there is nothing southbound between 0202 (or 0302 half-way to Torquay only) and 0528. Not really an all night service, to my mind. Meanwhile, in most...
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    Avanti West Coast Cancellations

    But can the employer be made to honour the agreement (other than by the DfT?) If ASLEF find that the agreement is being ignored, what sanction have they got? They can withdraw from it, which will be reported as them not acting in good faith - and their members will lose money too.
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    "HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester

    No they shouldn't. (Or the only bypass should be additional platforms on the HS2 lines.) This is about improving the UK connectivity outside London. It's not just about faster or more trains direct from a few places to London, shoudn't be at all, in my opinion. Salop and Stoke (and all the...
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    "HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester

    I was afraid of that. I don't see how the additional trains coming off HS2 can be handled - unless they use the through lines, which doesn't do much for the connectivity of the N Midlands. We need an extra additional hourly Brum to Preston service as it is.
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    "HS2 Back on Track" - front page of Sunday Express - private sector plan to build Birmingham to Manchester

    I am very surprised at the assertion that there is no need to upgrade the southern approaches to Crewe. Even if most of the freight diverts through Basford Hall there are still times when trains wait at both the north and south ends of the station to get in. Traksy shows the missing link in...
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    Oslo - Trondheim Line Flood Damage

    I was wondering whether that was for bringing in rail etc as soon as the bridge spans are in? Anyway, time to re-post the webcam link https://kunde.byggekamera.no/?p=821&c=1068
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    Princess of Wales has cancer

    we all have to die of something, and the longer we live the more likely it is that the big C will have appeared. I believe that loads of people die with (not "of") it, luckily unaware of its development. I guess the medical treatment for that stratum of society will keep them functioning and...
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    Princess of Wales has cancer

    yes, but the older you get the more likely it is to reveal itself. However it is very bad luck for a middle-aged person to be hit, sadly not uncommon though. Awful for the young family.
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    Isle of Man Steam Packet Co

    but can you see an (ex-) hole in the side where they took the broken engine out and replaced it? Or is it running on 3 engines only this year?

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