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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    is a comment by a man who really knows about shipping, with a suggestion as to why the ship actually veered accross the channel and hit the bridge. 1711533230 is an update on the above video.
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    "I'm a Signalman, not a Signaller!"

    Perhaps we should go to the daftest non-sexist invention. A person who is in charge of a meeting was formerly a 'chairman', but the loonies decided that that mentioned a MAN, and it would be bad to call someone a 'chairwoman' thus we now somehow call said person a 'chair' (just imagine being the...
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    Service charges added to bills

    Why should some industries, such as restraurants, hairdressers etc, expect people to give tips? Surely we should expect to be treated properly by people doing their jobs as normal. We don't tip bus drivers for getting us to our destination in one piece despite traffic problems or train drivers...
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    Loughton to Worthing Central seaside excursion ?

    I suggest Derek C looks in more detail at the at layout at what was originally known as Loughton Branch Jn, which from 1958 became Temple MillsEast Jn box. It might appear on a small scale map that trains could avoid reversing at Channelsea Jn but the layout at no time enabled trains from Leyton...
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    Loughton to Worthing Central seaside excursion ?

    Quite right, for some reason I wasn't thinking about reversing at Stratford. It would probably, as I know from an experience on an excursion for our school from Loughton to Norwich in the early 1960s have run to Channelsea Jn, where the loco to work to Norwich via Ipswich was attached (D84xx to...
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    Heritage railways open boxing day

    Tanfield Railway running Boxing Day.
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    Loughton to Worthing Central seaside excursion ?

    Interesting, I was not aware that N7s ran down the line following LT taking over the line. Obviously from the photo they did, or at least this one did! I wonder if this was one of those which had once been based at Finsbury Park and was tripcock fitted for trips to High Barnet etc and had...
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    Loughton to Worthing Central seaside excursion ?

    The DMUs, or at least the later trips on a Sunday morning, ran at the same time as normal underground trains were starting to run. When travelling on the Sunday morning trips from Liverpool St to Loughton (where they latterly terminated) one would pass the early underground services heading...
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    Loughton to Worthing Central seaside excursion ?

    I presume that the J69s had to be tripcock fitted. The D82xx & D84xx diesels which hauled the night time parcel trains over the East London Line had to be tripcock fitted, as were presumably the class 31s if they worked the excursion train via that route. The DMU's which formed the early morning...
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    Loughton to Worthing Central seaside excursion ?

    These excursions were always hauled by J15's from Stratford. J15's were, I believe, the only tender engines which could run down the central line, being trip-cock fitted. A tender engine was necessary as there was no water available at Loughton. The trains consisted of 6 coaches, the maximum...
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    GWML / Elizabeth line disruption due to OLE down near Paddington

    Possibly something seriously wrong with mrmartin who obviously knows how to run the railway far better than those who are having to try to run it in what must be the most trying of circumstances. Perhaps mrmartin knows how to run trains when there is no electricity in vital places and could...
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    Station rationalisation - those where a platform or two could easily be removed

    Both the east facing bays (platforms 1 & 2) are used by services starting or terminating to/from Grimsby or Peterborough so could not be easily removed.
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    Storm Ciarán: Weather related disruption 1/2 November

    Unfortunately trampolines are quite light and if only held down by a couple of tent pegs (particularly in wet ground) will very easily take off in a strong wind, let alone the conditions in the last few days. The need properly securing to trees or fences to make sure that they don't disappear.
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    East Midlands Railway - new customer information screens (CIS)

    Strangely, all these new screens, just like the previous ones, still show trains going to/from 'Lincoln Central', despite all timetables and the National Rail website refering to it as just 'Lincoln'. The large sign outside the station shows just 'Lincoln'. I presume it is just EMR that persist...
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    Disruption due to an issue at Dawlish (18/10)

    Does it not rather depend on what the 'user' Great Western (or whoever actually ordered them) specified when these units were ordered? Was there a specification to Hitachi that they must be completely 'waterproof' and guaranteed to operate in the conditions regularly experienced at Dawlish? If...

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