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Doesn't that risk the French cherry-picking those who might be most economically productive and least socially disruptive, and diverting the others to the UK?

Perhaps if they put (Manchester) or (Bolton) on tickets, people would think they were valid to those places as well.

Does that mean taking up the entire platform, or are three trains timetabled to a platform on some occasions? If it's in the middle and occupying part of both A and B, what platform letter is shown on the screens?

According to May's Modern Railways, the Connect units are to be refurbished with the same seats as the 810s in 2+2 configuration.

For short distances such as this, a conventional wire supported by frequent glass fibre bars (and with insulated paint and surge arrestors if required) is probably a better solution than conductor bar. The overall height is similar and it avoids the complex transitions needed between conductor...

These were used in the Severn Tunnel, not entirely successfully, so I imagine the MML teams are aware of the benefits and risks.

Going by reasonably frequent reports of drownings including five more this week, that probability is greater than being sent to Rwanda. And it is claimed that those sent to Rwanda will have housing and tolerable conditions, so the severity of the consequence is less than that of drowning. So I...

A particularly irritiating Just Eat advert on YouTube featuring husband and wife furry animals - suggests that their customers are patronising, overweight and unfashionable.

Rapid transit, electric commuter railroads and the electric tram (streetcar or interurban) were to a large extent American innovations too, although now far more seem in Europe.

When the state railway in the UK was privatised in the 1990s, the parts that did track maintenance were sold off as separate companies and had contracts to continue maintaining the tracks on behalf of the owner (Railtrack). However, the contracts were badly drawn up and the maintenance...

She's one of the party's biggest assets. The Labour party's.

It's also flatter and easier to build on, flood plains permitting, and Doncaster is generally better connected by rail than Sheffield, with road links probably about equal. The airport site got a new road link, and if it gets turned into a new town it's just possible it could get a new station*...

That may be the stated intention, but it's hardly pro-immigrant to tell potential immigrants that they risk being sent into a country probably best known for a genocidal civil war*. Coming from the successors of the government that promoted a "hostile environment" it's unsurprising that many...

The oldest road in the US, the Baltimore and Ohio, started in 1830 so the UK would have been the "best" or "only" practice at the time. Certainly later in the century North America came up with many innovations and some spread back to Europe, but I think these would have been home-grown rather...

I'm not from the area, but I get the impression high speed service to London has been a big benefit to the Ashford area, which was previously rather deprived.