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    Toilet Retention Tanks. Why bother?

    It's also an issue for people who live next to railway lines.
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    Manchester Arena Incident (22/05/2017)

    No and I don't see how it's possible to draw that inference from my post. The IRA was a terrorist organisation which used violence in an ultimately futile attempt to achieve its aims of a united Ireland. Any of their acts of violence were abhorrent, whoever they were aimed at.
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    Manchester Arena Incident (22/05/2017)

    Which is the point I'm making, they really didn't care who the bombs killed and they had no 'code of conduct' in that respect.
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    Manchester Arena Incident (22/05/2017)

    No they didn't, they murdered children indiscriminately too, Enniskillen, Omagh, Warrington and many others. Their apologists may tend to re-write history by saying they were targeting the security forces but the truth of it is that they didn't care who they killed.
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    Manchester Arena Incident (22/05/2017)

    I'd take that with a pinch of salt. There's a lot of nonsense on FB etc about the casualties at the moment, but some eyewitness reports are of adults among the dead too and there were people waiting for children or who had gone to the concert with children. I suspect this is an extrapolation of...
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    Stadler Flirt 'IC'

    But the legroom may not be an issue anyway, especially if as has been stated, the LEAN seat is cheaper. You'd use them even if the intention was to keep the seat pitch the same with the benefit of increased legroom. As has been said the split floor layout of the trains means there are only a...
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    Stadler Flirt 'IC'

    I suspect that's just advertising blurb to show the art of the possible rather than what GA will actually do. What it also demonstrates is that it's possible to get more seats in with still acceptable leg room. I don't think any operator would seriously have them as close together as the...
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    Alstom reveals fuel-cell EMU concept

    It was a Honda who ran an experimental fleet both in the US and UK around Swindon, if I remember rightly. The programme quite liked the car, if I remember correctly, issues with fuel production/storage/supply not withstanding.
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    Speculating to the future: What next for the West Highland Line (WHL)?

    I wouldn't be so sure of that after June 8th... The Conservatives are the only party that the SNP are worried about, and with good reason. Not sure if they'll lose the 10-12 seats quoted but they will lose a few. Blue is running at about 30% in polling in Scotland currently.
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    Crossing Keeper Randomly Assaulted at Tal-Y-Cafn

    It's also a possibility that will be looked into by the police that the 'random' assault wasn't random at all. I've no idea whether it was or not, but the unusual nature of it will make them have a look at that aspect too. Whatever it turns out to be, I hope he makes a swift recovery,
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    Water trains

    One of my favourite jokes; How do you confuse a Daily Express/Mail reader? Tell him that the illegal immigrant is the natural predator of the paedophile. There was also the comment somewhere that if either of the aforementioned journals has a question as a headline (eg will eating Mars...
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    "Operational incident" between Barnham and Havant 03/04

    Drivers of road vehicles in accidents aren't named unless they've died in the incident or taken to court, and even then only when court proceedings are under way, and clearly it shouldn't be any different for drivers of trains.
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    Class 88 UKDual & EuroDual

    It's very apparent if you watch any of the UK motoring shows, Top Gear, Grand Tour etc, especially if they show a car in slo-mo that has LED lights, the flashing is obvious. In that setting it's an effect utilised intentionally.
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    A plea to train companies to SCRAP 'weekend first' upgrade deals

    If you hear him on the radio, he does Steve Wright on R2 reasonably regularly, it becomes apparent very rapidly that he's sending himself up and it isn't serious in the way that it's said. I think there is a more subtle point in that he genuinely wants people to be better mannered overall, but...
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    A plea to train companies to SCRAP 'weekend first' upgrade deals

    He's never being serious, he's basically a comedian and it's an act, designed to generate faux outrage in an amusing (if you like that kind of thing) style. It sends himself up as much as it does anything else. If you claim yourself to be Britain's leading etiquette expert and all your advice is...

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