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Recessio's latest activity
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RRecessio replied to the thread Longest surviving redundant signal structures.There's a very rusty semaphore signal outside one of the Newhaven stations. Not sure on the age.
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RRecessio replied to the thread Controversial railway opinions (without a firm foundation in logic..).This is peak modern railway thinking. Much easier to make the railway less appealing to passengers than actually invest and run a decent...
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RRecessio replied to the thread Increasingly sad state of London Underground trains - graffiti and disrepair.Some of the most prolific artists are train buffs, or at least very familiar with the network and particularly the security arrangements.
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RRecessio replied to the thread Increasingly sad state of London Underground trains - graffiti and disrepair.Agreed. The graffiti is noticeably worse on the Bakerloo, Central and Picadilly lines that don't have CCTV, compared to newer stock with...
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RRecessio replied to the thread Increasingly sad state of London Underground trains - graffiti and disrepair.That might explain it then. Much harder to catch the culprits unless they are caught in the act.
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RRecessio replied to the thread Increasingly sad state of London Underground trains - graffiti and disrepair.Do Picadilly line carriages have CCTV? I notice at the moment it mostly targets lines without train CCTV. Pretty brazen if they're...
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RRecessio replied to the thread The future of the croxley green line after the cancellation of the croxley link project.I think this is also probably the most likely permanent option, that it'll be kept in reserve for HERT. Otherwise it might just be left...
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RRecessio replied to the thread Controversial railway opinions (without a firm foundation in logic..).We already have different station names within the same complex, such as at Bank-Monument, Liverpool Street & Moorgate, Farringdon &...
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RRecessio replied to the thread Locations of Permit To Travel Machines?.I wonder how money the "Not in use" light on all the PERTIS machines has cost the railway in electricity over the ~35 years they've been...
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RRecessio replied to the thread What happened to upgrading the Oyster system to support more zones?.You can, I can't imagine they sell many nowadays though with the ubiquity of contactless payments. I think it's also slightly more...
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RRecessio replied to the thread Controversial railway opinions (without a firm foundation in logic..).I reckon it might make more sense to just rename them as both of their stations, like how we already have King's Cross St Pancras...
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RRecessio replied to the thread Multiple fatalities Chislehurst 20 May 1971.If there were fatalities, would there have been a coroners report at the local authority/court records?
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RRecessio replied to the thread Cross Country Routes that never existed, but theoretically could have.Shame there's no good way to make Cross Country work on the Tonbridge-Redhill-Guildford-Reading lines, opening up Kent to other routes...
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RRecessio replied to the thread Stations rebranded to Great British Railways design / Rail Alphabet 2.Is Waterloo East managed by NR like Waterloo is, or is maintained by a TOC (presumably Southeastern?)
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RRecessio replied to the thread Trivia: Which UK stations have (or have historically) had stations using the same name but with a slight variation?.East Grinstead used to have High Level and Low Level, until the High Level station was closed after Beeching and the Low Level became...