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    Swanage - Wareham diesel service delayed until Sept 2018

    The waiting rooms have heaters, just need to be turned on. Many normal people were using it more than once, not just enthusiasts, It could be relied on unlike the bus.
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    Swanage - Wareham diesel service delayed until Sept 2018

    Is it a form of transport? Does take people from A to B (Yes), Can the public use it (Yes). So there fore it is Public Transport and people use it as such. There is very limited public parking (18spaces) in Corfe Castle so people park at Norden and take the train to get to the castle. The local...
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    Swanage - Wareham diesel service delayed until Sept 2018

    1)The speed limit on that road had for many years has been 40mph. Apart from that travel above 40mph on bus is most unpleasant even more so if you have to stand while underway. http://product.itoworld.com/map/124?lon=-1.77637&lat=50.76235&zoom=10 Speed limits are not a target, Clearly you think...
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    Swanage - Wareham diesel service delayed until Sept 2018

    1)The speed limit on that road had for many years has been 40mph. Apart from that travel above 40mph on bus is most unpleasant even more so if you have to stand while underway. 2) £8.20 is the fare that I and most likely many others have been charged, being told that the day ticket was the...
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    Swanage - Wareham diesel service delayed until Sept 2018

    The number 50 Swanage-Bournemouth Bus goes over the Studland-Sandbanks ferry, not via Wareham. The speed limit on the road is only 40mph, so not twice the speed. As for Journey time it is about the same as the number 40 bus (Which does not serve Harmans Cross), The train is also not delayed by...
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    Swanage - Wareham diesel service delayed until Sept 2018

    Swanage Railway Press Release http://swanagerailway.co.uk/news/detail/challenging-restoration-upgrade-of-1960s-heritage-diesel-trains-delays-second-year-wareham-service-trial
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    TRIVIA: Hardest Rail lines to reinstate

    Spalding to Boston Line, Now the A15
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    Modal shift from cars to buses or trams and the difference in perception between these modes

    In 1986 the internet was aready 19 years old, I myself had access from 1981 while a undergrad at UMIST. You are clearly confused with the term 'World Wide Web'. The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for...
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    Modal shift from cars to buses or trams and the difference in perception between these modes

    If it was widely reported as you claim there would be a record, Yet there is none so where is your proof? However, Mrs Thatcher is unusual in that all her public utterances have been transcribed and recorded. Yet there is a record of Douglas Alexander, the Transport Secretary, who made the same...
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    Catering now on Glasgow to Carlisle via GSW

    When I came back that way in 87, there was MK1 RMB in the rake.
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    Modal shift from cars to buses or trams and the difference in perception between these modes

    Only problem is that she never actually said that or anything like that, it's a persistant urban myth. It was Loelia Ponsonby, one of the wives of 2nd Duke of Westminster who said "Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life"
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    Trivia: Longest time to travel between stations less than 2 miles apart

    Dorchester West to Dorchester South via Upwey 43 minuites or 6 minuites walk
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    Trivia: Most ridiculously named station in UK

    Better to have a return ticket than a single. There is a retirement home (in case a retirement in Hell suits you) But then 'Hell' is Norwegian for 'Luck'
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    Fantasy: Using your imagination, what companies could you imagine running a franchise?

    Has to be at least 90 minuites travel to the city centre by bus from the Ryantrain station which will cost more then the base train fare. As was the case with the flight I took from Stanstead to Stockholm a few years back, landed more than 100 miles from Stockolm had to pay £30 for a two hour...

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