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Recent content by vinnym70

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    Avanti West Coast Cancellations

    Whilst it may make financial sense for Avanti, I do worry that employees of other TOCs will see this award and wonder why they aren't getting the same. I'll assume this is a significant settlement otherwise BBC news wouldn't be covering it.
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    Help Chiltern court summuns

    There's some basic carrot and stick logic at play here, surely? There's three bases you can claim ... not guilty / might be guilty / guilty of (potentially) repeated evasion Asking someone to attend an interview under caution is likely to scare most into being honest. Now that it's clear that...
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    Shortest UK car number plate you've seen

    Fairly sure (not certain) F 1 and 1 F used to be on Essex County Council cars. I remember stories of them being sold for tidy sums but it's not something I have a great interest in.
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    Byelaws (UK) or Bylaws (US)? (trivia)

    Byelaw is appropriate English as far as I can see. Remember, when our American friends talk about routing, they are usually saying ROW-T-ING and not ROO-T-ING. Same, but different. It's all still apparently 'English'
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    Service seemingly doesn't exist

    Apologies. Epic brain fail on my part. I managed to look at 'next' week but I was busy trying to work out where I'd been last week at the time. On the plus-side, this has stopped me making any further silly mistakes planning 'this' week and explained quite quickly why I was having problems...
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    Service seemingly doesn't exist

    Manchester Piccadilly departing 0036
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    Service seemingly doesn't exist

    I found it in realtime trains no bother. Leaves Liverpool Lime Street at 2330, Manchester Piccadilly 0036, arrives airport 0057.
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    Beaulieu Park Station Construction

    Looks like a typical lazy Reach effort. The pics look like stills from the Network Rail timelapse. But, I'm sure the 'trainee multimedia journalist' is yet to hone his craft to the point where we think he made an effort beyond a bit of copy/paste.
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    Beaulieu Park Station Construction

    I see a few main groups who will benefit: People who currently drive into Chelmsford who can get to BP more easily People who currently use other stations nearby with infrequent services (Braintree branch- hourly, Hatfield Peverel- roughly half hourly) - some of whom may use Witham and...
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    Beaulieu Park Station Construction

    Brutal Happy New Year from GA - no trains due to signalling fault between Ingatestone and Chelmsford and buses being summoned. Good job I'm not one of those conspiracy theorists.
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    Beaulieu Park Station Construction

    My suspicion is that the new station will attract a lot of people from other stations, especially those using the Braintree branch and Hatfield Peverel currently seeking a more frequent service. Once the new north-east bypass opens (if it does) the proposition is quite attractive, with only a...
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    Disruption on HS1 due to signalling problems caused by flooding in the Thames Tunnel.

    That really puts being turfed off the Jubilee line at North Greenwich when you want to be north of the river into perspective. I really don't see how Eurostar can do much else. Like everyone has commented, each train carries a significant number of passengers so any other mode of transport...
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    'Bumping' - is it becoming a serious problem?

    Interesting to see the views here. My mainly used gateline is Canary Wharf and I've noticed the issue for many years now (before Covid too) but it seems worse now. Canary Wharf is a wide gateline and the new side gates to the south of the station are generally well away from staff attention...
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    Beaulieu Park Station Construction

    I'm quite surprised the station is finally a reality. We went to look at the first parts of the housing development around 2000. The plans at that stage clearly showed a station in the overall master-plan but no-one had a date to offer. Who knew it would be 25 years in the making? The new...
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    Enfield Town to Pitsea

    Thank you both. Seems perfectly reasonable now. Can I assume that RHTT will be class 69's in GEML land this year then? Traditionally I seem to remember them being 37's but that was probably pre-covid.

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