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    "Interesting" reasons for non-operation of transport services

    Had a train once that was rather late into Basingstoke due the police attending a firearms incident on-board another train somewhere around Eastleigh/ Winchester. :o and one day last year all the buses had to be diverted out the rear of the bus station and miss the first stop outside as the...
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    My live departure boards site

    Oi, just because you got promoted, and in any case your still a league bellow us unlike that awful blue lot down the road who will be closer to Eastleigh/ Havant next season than us.... :lol: Anyway the LDB site, although I haven't actually tried it on a mobile device it looks Ike it would be...
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    Switch off email notifications?

    For anyone else finding this thread who doesn't want to decipher the instructions above you can follow this link, and it's under "Messaging & Notification ". :)
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    London to Calais fares?

    Yes, this is what I have been trying to convey to people intending to use HS1 in my opening post and more recently here. In line with S. 13 (d) of the NRCOC any restriction to the permuted routes must be shown on the ticket itself, as up until now the only restriction ha been "Stena P&O" you...
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    New Zealand votes in favour of same sex marrage

    How many countries is that now that have legalised some form of same sex marriage? Anyway I do wish our parliament was like this instead of shouting insults at each other all the time. :) DW4DXOAXF8U The results of the vote are announced NZ parliament TV
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    London to Calais fares?

    Just to note that there are now instructions for staff on how to issue the control tickets on their respective TIS - just send you friendly booking clerk in that direction if they shrug their shoulders and say don't know guv. So there's no excuses now for people to upset the French by not...
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    London to Calais fares?

    Just bear in mind that you may have issues using HS1 as the manual now explicitly say HS1 is not included, though I doubt the tickets have been updated to reflect this, so in reality it should be permitted still assuming Dover Priory via HS1 is still a permitted route and if it's not someone's...
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    Baroness Thatcher has died

    Polly Toynbee calling Ken clarke Brutus on Question Time was rather amusing I thought.
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    Use of Microwave on trains

    If that's what you use for personnel grooming. :lol: I don't really understand why people want to use every kind of electric appliance on board, you wouldn't bring a microwave to a public house would you? But you Mobile communication devices on the other hand are just that and meant to usable...
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    Baroness Thatcher has died

    If the DM is to be believed in December 2011 she was having a state funeral so presumably something has changed since then. and in 2008
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    Baroness Thatcher has died

    More to do with shouting down the dissenters and making sure the history books give a true reflection of the love and sadness that the nation feels for Kim il Sung who just happens to have a Birthday today. Oh wait that can't be right he was male juche communist and she was a Female...
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    Use of Microwave on trains

    Time to start it of in the KFC thread as well then. Anyone for a Burger King thread?:twisted:
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    Commuter seating

    How would you get in and out with out the 2 people on the outside standing up and moving out first? I know we kind of do that with 2+2 but that's only 1 person and I expect its far quicker than waiting for 2 people to repack their handbags. Fine on a plane when you are stuck there but not on a...
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    Commuter seating

    I know, how about creating some units with mixed 2+2 & 3+2 seating in standard so people can choose where to sit or stand, we could even put up a few window stickers at one end of a coach and call it first class. Oh wait in minute....
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    How to excess on NR website?

    But if a single was to actually cost half of a return.... But that's a topic that's been gone into quite enough already. :wink:

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