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    Prettiest Stations in the UK

    On the main line, Another vote for Lewes. Especially considering that some stations either side of Brighton look like they are from Eastern Europe, and the first thing that greets you at Seaford is a vending machine with no insides... The only thing that mars it is an irrational feeling you...
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    Which type of train still in service today will you miss most when they've all been withdrawn from use on the national network?

    I liked the original livery. I never had to travel on them back then though. The current shade of green is a little too dark in my opinion.
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    Which type of train still in service today will you miss most when they've all been withdrawn from use on the national network?

    Just move them inboard a bit, it might help with the station dwell times. Otherwise there's not much to chose between them and the mk3s they replaced. Just need longer sets...
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    Which type of train still in service today will you miss most when they've all been withdrawn from use on the national network?

    Look to the Javelin sets for any early warnings I guess. The only things I would criticise the IET sets for is having the doors at the ends, and cramped entrance vestibules. A bit of a liability when the things fill up, which they do on FGW.
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    Southern Class 313 withdrawal/storage/scrapping updates

    Yesterday 205 was working between Bognor and Littlehampton, and 220 was doing Brighton to Seahaven, which is similarly dogeared. This will probably de the same the next couple of weekend. I wonder if a train meets the ferry at Dieppe? That sort of interconnectedness is going out of fashion.
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    Which type of train still in service today will you miss most when they've all been withdrawn from use on the national network?

    Umm, the few remaining HST sets, and the class 455. Which unlike the 313s are quite civilised as long as you don't sit above the air compressor, and nowhere near as tatty.
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    Bus links fully integrated with rail

    Well ideally, the TOC would get hold of a bunch of buses/coaches from wherever, the drivers likewise, install a bunch of thoses large bulky bus shelters you see on railway platforms with a 'next bus' display and a ticketing machine nearby in every settlement left high and dry by...
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    Woking - Basingstoke (near Hook) landslip (15/01/23)

    That is true, I've only solved the leaf drop, overshadowing, signals obscured by undergrowth, and trees falling over because they're too heavy for their roots problems. At the expense of tree lovers going 'Jesus, you've killed them!' .
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    Woking - Basingstoke (near Hook) landslip (15/01/23)

    You don't need to fell them, just cut them right back. They'l recover.
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    Collision and derailment near Salisbury (Fisherton Tunnel) 31/10/21

    I rode a 159 from Salisbury to Yeovil, backwards to Pen Mill, down to Weymouth, Dorchester and thence to Corfe on the swanage Railway a few years ago on a summer saturday service. Incidentally, does anyone know if one of those RHT or sandite trains had been through that area recently? Also...
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    SWR Repaints and Refurbishments

    I think some of the 159s had new seating a while back, 159 007 springs to mind. Is anyone rattling a can to keep one of the 442s for preservation?
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    Climb through the windows to get onto the platform

    Anyone passing through Romsey might notice that most of the doors on the platform are either shorter than usual or have a step down from the platform owing to the platforms being a lot lower in the past. I wonder if there are any other stations in the UK like this? Also, that's an inwards...
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