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    Driving large vehicles over the white line

    Agreed, only time I've ever done 90 is from someone doing this.
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    Euro Rail Travel, where to Start!

    I'd love to have a go at travelling around Europe by train but not sure where to start with it, my apologies I'm a complete beginner, (coming from a family who only insisted on holidaying inside Britain). I'm Looking for websites that are the european equivalent of Trainline.com for good cheap...
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    Driving large vehicles over the white line

    Like all things on the road there is a bit of lee-way in the rules. (Despite my location saying other wise) I recently moved to Somerset where you have plenty of roads with hard white lines, however the roads are so twisty it's fairly frequent for buses and lorries to cross over the line...
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    London Paddington to Basingstoke direct service

    Agree, the only other benefits I can see is perhaps reducing overcrowding at Waterloo and if it's possible to make the service faster than the SWR Basingstoke service, which due to the LSWR mainline being far more direct, I doubt it's possible. I wonder if a Southampton - Oxford would have more...
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    45015 being scrapped finally.

    Steam locos tend to be of a simpler, heavier duty construction than diesels, if you have a set of frames and wheels in good nick you're off to a good start.
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    The future of unelectrified lines once the UK gets to net zero carbon?

    I'm aware Lithium isn't a consumable as such but elements still need to be dug out of the ground and manufactured. Are you the one on the council saying no?
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    The future of unelectrified lines once the UK gets to net zero carbon?

    Not efficient compared to more efficient mainlines but if you say compared that efficiency to the dominant mode of transportation, efficiency, can be measured in overall space consumed per person, for the journey, or the amount of carbon per person, or even the measure of energy it takes to move...
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    The future of unelectrified lines once the UK gets to net zero carbon?

    As opposed to the electric car with it's lithium batteries, road congestion, failure to implement self driving and micro plastic producing tires.
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    The future of unelectrified lines once the UK gets to net zero carbon?

    This forum really does love some rail closure fear mongering, railways are the most efficient form of land transport ever devised and I dare say the most sustainable. The case for rail closures on environmental grounds is absolutely ludicrous. Battery technology is likely to evolve to a point...
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    Shortest-lived rolling stock

    The C08 carriages had a very short life, being built in 2008 to replace damaged C69/77 stock cars from the London 7/7 bombings, being withdrawn around 2013/14 *edited to remove comments basically saying the same thing up-thread I believe there were some GWR Broad gauge locos with a 2 year...
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    Class 484 replacing class 483 on the island line: progress updates

    Just wondering if there's a brief summary of the electrical and mechanical gubbins that's original on the 484s and what's new. The impression I got from the wiki page was that only the bodyshells and bogies have been reused. But after watching the Geoff Marshall video, there was something...
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    Reading Green Park Station

    I'm alright Jack as long as house prices keep inflating forever. If overnight, road developments increased land values greater than the development of railways, priorities will quickly change, regardless of the social and ecological benefits of railways. Remember folks a house is a home...
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    Reading Green Park Station

    That's got far more amenities than I would've thought, I always imagined it to be a Winnersh Triangle type job. I'm from Whitley (South Reading) and there's been murmerings about this for years, at least since late NSE days when Madejski stadium was in the planning. My only concern is it'll give...
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    English language dubbing, instead of subtitles for foreign films and TV series. A case in point; I watched Wallander when it was first on the TV with subtitles and fully enjoyed it, revisited the Netflix English dubbed version and it was unwatchable, the dialogue just felt stilted. Ruining a...
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    Local Facebook Groups

    I thought it may have been exclusive to my area that the local FB page's completely both petty yet insane at the same time, but it's interesting to see it's the same everywhere. I'm not sure if the entire country's just completely bonkers or if the nutters are just the most vocal. The Wright...

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