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    London Overground line names announced

    What a shame they used them to make political points. They should have been references to locations and areas.
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    Incident at Dalston Junction.

    I've been reading on other forums etc that this was a stunt by a campaigner. Perhaps the staff laughed because they were joining in the spirit of it, or perhaps they were right to mock it. Unless we were there we cannot tell, but I'm reserving judgement. Stunts to make a point (justified or not)...
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    What exactly did Thatcher do?

    A bit OT, but I have been down the Big Pit tour and was surprised that we did not see any coal, and went nowhere near a coal face, just around some service passages near the hoist shaft. Slight correction - we did pass a hopper that happened to be parked with some dusty rubble in it that might...
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    What exactly did Thatcher do?

    The reason why she won three elections despite so many people hating her was that opinions about her were (and are still) very polarised. You idolised her or hated her, a bit like figures such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump today. She started a new cultural outlook that was not what she...
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    Google Consent Statements…

    As I said above, I'm fine with cookies if I log on to a site with which I have an account, like this one. In that situation they serve a purpose for the user. However there is no reason for a site that does not require logging in to give you cookies, other than for its own statistics (which I...
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    Google Consent Statements…

    It is not new that Google collect data about you from most (~80%?) websites you visit, but this pop-up seems to be the latest thing that Google have implemented as part of their never-ending legal dance with regulators. Those websites are linked with Google by including some software called...
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    Scotrail HST serious tree strike avoidable- ASLEF.

    My emphasis. No comment.
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    Elon Musk - the world's "greatest" spiv?

    There are all sorts of reasons to take notice of what Musk is up to. For a start, as one of the richest men in the world it is as well to know what he is doing, or intends to do, with his money : for example, relevant to this forum, he uses it to finance his personal and obsessive vendetta...
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    You know you’re getting older when……

    You must be a youngster. Before that, in the London area at least, it was three letters followed by four figures, and the old dials had both letters and numbers on them. The letters may or may not have corresponded to the area but they were always part of a memorable word, so Mitcham had MIT...
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    Electric Buses - are they safe?

    I am amazed that the motor control system of an electric bus does not limit the acceleration to a sensible value, and also limit the rate of increase of the acceleration which is known in dynamics as the "jerk". I believe it is done on electric trains.
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    Trivia: Odd or Bizarre moments in the rail industry

    On Kings Weston Lane in Avonmouth I seem to recall crossing gates on an industrial branch still having lit red lights glowing on them long after it was disused. Someone could have been sent to switch them off, or at least taken the bulbs out to save electricity if no-one could find the switch.
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    Choosing a DSLR Camera for Bus Photography

    Don't worry about it. The Wex website for example says of the Canon D2000 :- Create effortlessly gorgeous background blur but I assure you that is hype, nothing special to Canon or this model - it comes out of the Laws of Physics. Any lens can only focus exactly at one distance at a time (the...
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    Trivia: Odd or Bizarre moments in the rail industry

    I heard that when the Southern was naming the Schools Class express 4-4-0s , they approached a number of public schools and other famous schools for permission to use their names. One school refused because they thought it would be demeaning, so as a result they never joined the ranks of Eton...
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    Trivia: Odd or Bizarre moments in the rail industry

    Adopting the bizarre value of 4' 8.5'' as the national track gauge because it suited the wagons used at certain coal mines.
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    Choosing a DSLR Camera for Bus Photography

    Without being familiar with Canon cameras, although I am experienced with cameras generally, that sounds like a good entry-level choice. I have had a look at the specs and while the 2000D is not leading edge tech for 2024, it would have been not very long ago and I'm sure it will do what you...

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