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    Season Ticket Advice

    Hi, I am planning to be commuting to Manchester regularly soon and I wanted to clarify a season ticket point. If I buy a season ticket to Manchester Stns and this means I can arrive/depart from Piccadilly, Oxford Road, Deansgate and Victoria as I like? Just trying to maximise...
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    Observation Cars

    Do such things still exist in the UK? (Not sure if this should be here or in the Special Workings section). I only ask because i was recently re-watching Michael Palins Great Railway Journey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railway_Journeys S1x04), on one railtour the rear coach was an...
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    What is/was the not-platform used for at Lime St?

    Passed through Lime St again yesterday, as i do every wednesday and while i was waiting i started wondering what the platform between 6 and 7 is for. There is track there, but i think it has been isolated and nothing can actually run onto it now. On the ground the faded paint still says...
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    X Car Stop signs not at stations

    On my way home today i noticed that after Rock Ferry station (toward Birkenhead) there was a 3Car Stop sign and a 6 car stop sign in between Rock Ferry and Green Lane station. Since i've never noticed them before i wouldn't have thought they exist from the old Tranmere station (that and they...
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    Got issued a handwritten ticket today

    The ticket machine was down at my local station (again) and normally they just ask us to pay at the destination (which is what they said to most people this morning). They do normally have a pile of pre-printed tickets to the main destinations though and seemed to have a pile of pre-written...
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    Merseyrail 507/508 EMUs in the rain

    Twice in the last few days when i've been on a 508 on the wirral line the driver has been unable to get the power up - every time the power was applied hard it seemed to cut out. As a result we were crawling out of stations, anyone know if they just don't like heavy rain or is it probably a...

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