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Can and will train seats become comfortable again?
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Because they are so cheap?
Today at 09:32
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Tree on the line between Woking & Brookwood
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More than forty years ago I was on a late-running German InterCity train when Control - not the signallers - made announcements to the...
Wednesday at 07:45
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Tree on the line between Woking & Brookwood
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I'm in Bonn at the moment and yesterday (Monday) at least one tree came down across the DB's left bank line along the Rhein between...
Tuesday at 17:00
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What is the point of Old Oak Common?
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Referring to earlier posts in this thread I should like to make some general points about the Old Oak Common (OOC) station as there...
12 Apr 2024
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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Very little can be made of such an argument. The railways were not 'flush with cash', by 1955 the total income did not even cover the...
7 Apr 2024
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XC Voyager Refurbishment
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And how do you ensure that the uncoupled and parked unit does not block a platform at Reading and upset the other trains using the station?
28 Mar 2024
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What other possibilities are there to improve capacity around Reading?
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Many years ago it was sometimes called Blazingsmoke due to the Lord Nelsons and the Bulleid pacifics... (And the basin of the...
25 Mar 2024
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Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway
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A couple of points to this position: 1. The leasing payments are not covered entirely by government subsidies. Pre-Covid some three...
17 Mar 2024
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Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway
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For the avoidance of doubt, I should like to point out that the capital (some £895 million) has been provided by the leasing company...
16 Mar 2024
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What could be done to improve the Elizabeth Line’s performance?
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If a 27 minute gap is so stressful, then why not take the next train to Paddington and take a Heathrow Express from there? There's one...
9 Mar 2024
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"I'm a Signalman, not a Signaller!"
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In principle you are correct, but there are a range of common uses and one can go down this rabbit hole a long way. I would just point...
26 Feb 2024
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"I'm a Signalman, not a Signaller!"
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A minor correction, in German a teacher is a Lehrer or Lehrerin, the being being taught is the Schuler or Schulerin. There is also the...
26 Feb 2024
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Train Leasing Profits Treble, £400,000,000 dividends
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OK, so the chief mechanical engineer's department did all this product support work for free? That they were only paid for their design...
22 Feb 2024
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Train Leasing Profits Treble, £400,000,000 dividends
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Even if the government bought the trains - then the money still comes from the government, so what is your problem? Is it just that you...
22 Feb 2024
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Train Leasing Profits Treble, £400,000,000 dividends
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You have still not understood. If the government supplies you with the cash to buy the assets it can do so in one of two ways: it can...
22 Feb 2024
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