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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Looks like no-one is going to get this He was Gerald Bull, assassinated (probably by the Israelis) in Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull Project Babylon was the Iraqi supergun, Gloster was the first to ID this so I hand the target over to him
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    Paddington Elizabeth line escalator luggage shaming camera

    so whats the problem with suitcases on escalators?
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Yes it was the Iraqi supergun(s) But who was the designer ? (he was Canadian, and also behind the American Project HARP)
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    The designer of Project Babylon was assassinated in 1990. What was it, and what was his name?
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    exactly
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Joe
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    Did they know the class 40 was going to whistle?

    Presumably 10201/2/3 already made similar noises? 10203 especially given that it used the same diesel setup. That should have given a good idea
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    Euston overcrowding

    Today around 5pm there were several Avanti that were only announced eight minutes before departure..... With another announcement that the gate would shut two minutes before departure. So just six minutes between announcement and gates closed. Result was a series of stampede, along with another...
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    185s question

    Are you saying that standard class passengers are cattle class people? That's how it reads.
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    Are any oil fired steam locos currently opperational on British heritage railways?

    Pass it through a cyclone centrifuge, should remove the metals. Back in the 1970s BR made a big point in the press that they were already doing this to clean and reuse lubricating oil - as lubricating oil. Re-use, not re-cycling
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    Underground fare Euston - Old Street? just 10p?

    Yep, now rebilled as £2.70
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Nile Rogers
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    Underground fare Euston - Old Street? just 10p?

    that's how I paid surprised it takes over 24 hours to reconcile
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    Underground fare Euston - Old Street? just 10p?

    How much should this be? Travelled yesterday. Online banking today shows a payment of just £0.10 which seems wrong......
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    86259

    Heading north through Lancaster around 10.50 today. Hauling mk2 AC rake
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    Aeroplane Noise — Variations Between Jet and Turboprop Engines

    Which brings in an important point: modern "jets" are turbofans........if you were to go back to the early days of turbojets with the likes of the 707, Comet or especially the VC10 you'd be looking at completely different comparisons. The VC10 especially was an auditory overload
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    "And it came to pass".... an arcane phrase

    200? More like 727 and even then they used a different translation for the same phrase on many more occasions. see https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Question:_Why_does_"and_it_came_to_pass"_appear_so_often_in_the_Book_of_Mormon%3F and...
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    vegetation management

    As a kid in the 1960s I can remember embankment vegetation being kept under control with deliberate controlled burns, a bit like burning gorse and heather on moorland
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    vegetation management

    DDT is an insecticide, not a herbicide. Wouldn't have any effect on vegetation 1728047138 Problem with doing it in winter is wet ground conditions, making vehicle access more difficult and compacting the ground. Doing it in autumn destroys any wildlife food in the form of berries or nuts Can't...
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    Suspension on integral versus non-integral ADL buses

    FWIW some of the most rigid and least rickety of Stagecoach's buses in Morecambe/Lancaster are the MX13 plated E400H hybrids which came from Manchester (originally in green beachball) I was on 12207 yesterday and the superior body stiffness is very obvious, even over newer buses. Presumably...

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