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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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The GWR did make a start withdrawing goods facilities from small stations in parts of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset in the 30s. Large new...
Monday at 21:21
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[DK] Best way of getting to Aarhus
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There is a half-hourly bus service from Billund Airport to Vejle - Route 43 operated by Sydtrafik. Vejle is on the Copenhagen - Aarhus...
8 Apr 2024
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Countries where rail traffic drives on a different side to road traffic
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Alsace-Lorraine in France has right-hand running, unlike the rest of the country, due to German control from 1870 to 1918. It was never...
7 Apr 2024
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Wigan-Bolton electrification. Construction updates only please
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A further complication is that the street level station building is Grade II listed. I guess the front canopy can be removed for safe...
5 Apr 2024
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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The SE & CR closed the SER Chatham Central branch in 1911 as an obvious duplication of the LCDR main line services. In 1927 the SR moved...
3 Apr 2024
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Network Rail CP7 Plans
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An awful lot of verbiage in the reports - is it really necessary to say 'we will..' in every other sentence? Actually it should be 'we...
3 Apr 2024
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Disused railway line and bridge in Adare, Ireland being removed
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Sadly the train shed at Foynes, long derelict, finally collapsed in the recent gales. I believe there is talk of running passenger...
1 Apr 2024
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Rail replacement aeroplane?
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The Big Four of course had their own airline (in consortium with Imperial Airways) - Railway Air Services - from 1934-47. The principal...
30 Mar 2024
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21C113 but where?
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Yes, Dawlish Warren. It'll be one of the regular SR loco workings via Newton Abbot for crew familiarisation - the GW had similiar via...
25 Mar 2024
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Century old LNER wagon unearthed in field near Antwerp
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LNER would be WW2 - maybe it got stranded in Belgium after the 1940 German invasion.
22 Mar 2024
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Rail services to be included as part of Bee Network: how should this be achieved?
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I am all in favour in principle, but I can see some major rows developing due to the vagaries of the GM boundary, with stations outwith...
21 Mar 2024
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Proposed tunnel between Waverley and Princes Street station?
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An early 'crayonista' perhaps? A mapmaker error I think - it doesn't show the Lothian Road terminus which in fact opened in 1848, and...
21 Mar 2024
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Waiting Areas on Footbridges?
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Manchester Piccadilly has the 'lounge' on the footbridge leading to Platforms 13/14. It gets very congested, with folk standing and...
20 Mar 2024
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Query what year? Hornby Dublo Duchess of Montrose EDP12
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I guess they were trying to fend off the Triang competion with something inexpensive and sufficiently 'cute' for the younger market, but...
18 Mar 2024
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HS2 Old Oak Common
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Devon and Cornwall to Manchester is already pretty competitive via London, despite the change of termini. Plymouth to Manchester by XC...
17 Mar 2024
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