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    Aberystwyth station former layout

    This might help. https://www.s-r-s.org.uk/html/gwu/S3163.htm looks like 1 for the south 2 and 3 for the north
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    excellent piece of citizen reporting there Matilda and Mum .... a future at BBC Cumbria awaits.. who needs the RAIB....
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    What is the longest bus/coach journey you have been on?

    San Antonio TX to Milwaukee WI - 19hours+ 1300+miles - 12 bunk sleeper bus on a Country Tour - single driver - we took turns to keep him awake for the last few hours...
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    Derailment near Carlisle - 19/10/2022 - 1715 Clitheroe Castle Cement Gb to Carlisle N.Y. (6C00)

    How do HABD detectors work with inside bearing wheelsets,
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    Historical Sleeper Routes

    I can remember late 70s early 80s working in the West End (London) and travelling after the show on the Barrow sleeper as far as Lancaster and then catching a DMU ( with the mail) to Windermere to be met by Parents ....
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    Signal boxes at triangular junctions

    Severn Tunnel Junction at Salop?
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    Should the NRM give the Lynton and Barnstaple railway Brake/Observation coach to the L&B trust?

    WIBN if No2 could be displayed undercover at the Old Railways Station Inn at Blackmoor as part of exanding the facilities as the railway expands....sort of Museum with catering facilities much like york.... Ian
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    Caledonian Sleeper: How should it be run and what changes would you like to see?

    Add a Bristol and Cardiff portion....:lol:
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    HS2 construction updates

    This apeared yesterday. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19639793.hundreds-jobs-created-hartlepool-build-hs2-tunnels/
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Sub contract the FW haulage to a Riley class5 (black) and drag the 73 round as a ETHEL.... now that would bring in the punters...
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    Major expansion at Botanic Gardens Depot Hull

    my first cab ride 03073 and match truck pulling a Mk2 rake back from paragon through the wash plant
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    Any first person anecdotes of the APT

    https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/JGF
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    Any first person anecdotes of the APT

    Overnight before the Sept 1981 81A OOC openday a APT arrived from Willsden for display - after being left by its diesel pilot it was found it had to be moved again slightly..... I think i can say i am one of a very small number of people who have hauled or shunted the APT by STEAM ..... 92220...
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    Extended bridges which have seen very few trains

    New bridge built over the A465 Heads of the Valleys rd nr Cefn Coed Station - Old Brecon and Merthyr route.
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    progress with Test Car 2 restoration

    Dw 150192 is (was) preserved as a test car - it was Test Car 4 - it had many runs on the mainline in preservation behind 71000 Duke of Gloucester and was owned by Ron Mitchell who was Chair of 71000 group at that time. I believe it is now in open storage at 10A - shame as it was rather tidy and...
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