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    Looking For A Documentary About East African Railways

    I have looked everywhere for a British documentary from around 1980 (could have been + or - a couple of years) which featured an EAR class 59 locomotive - I think Mount Kilimanjaro - taking a 1200 ton freight train from Mombasa to Nairobi. It was driven by a Sheikh driver and passed through...
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    Magistrates Court for sitting in First Class with Standard Ticket.

    I could. Yes.
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    Magistrates Court for sitting in First Class with Standard Ticket.

    I have given a couple of avenues to explore by the originator's solicitor.
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    Magistrates Court for sitting in First Class with Standard Ticket.

    It's called irony.
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    Magistrates Court for sitting in First Class with Standard Ticket.

    A couple of points here. Maybe three :) I travel weekly on the Thursday 18:43 ex Euston to Crewe - first port of call Milton Keynes. The train is always full to bursting point even in first which is where I am sitting. Now out the corner of a bleary eye I notice when the tickets are checked...
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    Looking For The Title Of An Old Magazine Series

    Thanks both. I have a feeling Great Trains may be the one. But more answers are welcome of course! Partworks. I've never heard that term but I knew there would be name for those publications.
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    Looking For The Title Of An Old Magazine Series

    I am looking for the title of a magazine series which had an article written by Lord Garnock about the operations of the Union Pacific over Sherman Hill during the Second World War. I was given this by a friend secondhand in 1990. I am fairly certain the cover featured the UP Big Boy. It was a...
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