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    At what point does waiting to buy a ticket stop being reasonable?

    Indeed it is not possible to detect the intentions of those in the queue but the actions at the head are obvious and it is the transaction taking place that matters in the first instance. As for office staff, I have come across both types of response where some have concentrated on immediate...
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    At what point does waiting to buy a ticket stop being reasonable?

    A point was raised at a recent user group meeting meeting with regard to immediate travel and advance/complex journeys being sorted at the head of a queue, where the railway's stakeholder relations representative said without qualification that a passenger needing to purchase tickets for...
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    December 2014 TT changes

    Sadly I have to agree. It would be unwise to attempt any major improvement in the absence of resources and whilst I think that a drastically improved service could be established over the joint line using the same number of trains as at present I would not contemplate any such changes without...
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    Leaf Fall

    Or even pull up the saplings before they morph into trees.
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    Scunthorpe bay platform

    This is quite correct although the main building of the second station survived in use as offices and the guard's signing on point until shortly before demolition in 1971 (despite the earlier removal of the platforms and up side building to accommodate reallignments and what became known as the...
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    Scunthorpe bay platform

    The paint scheme used to seem strange at first to a point, as if London was to the east rather than south. I don't know whether you are aware but some years ago Irwell Press published "An Illustrated History of Scunthorpe's Railways" which may now be out of print but worth looking out for if you...
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    Rerailing a HST power car. Luxulyan, Cornwall 1991.

    A jacking and traversing operation by the look of it and quite a common and well rehearsed function executed by re-railing gangs up and down the country carried out with no fuss at the time. Further disruption from this derailment followed with the ban imposed on the type from using the line...
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    Scunthorpe bay platform

    The West Bay, sometimes referred to as the Fish Dock, was lifted and filled in sometime in the 1990s. Its former use during my youth was the stabling of vans detached from the Manchester-Cleethorpes newspaper train prior to their return in the evening although the Gunhouse Banking Engine had...
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    Settle and Carlisle service question

    I recall that, when operated in the OP's suggested form, the stopping service became a closure victim.
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    Would an independent Scotland change the railway?

    Would a yes vote and the ultimate transfer of powers from one side of a line on a map to another diminish the need for travel between the two nations so much or would a force field, a modern day Hadrian's Wall if you like, suddenly appear to frustrate communications after the event?
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    Hope Valley Services In The 1970's

    Indeed, the Hope Valley Line is very useful for leisure travel to the Peak District but then, with stations at Rowsley, Bakewell, Monsal Dale and Millers Dale so was the Peak Forest Route. The withdrawal of passenger services from Matlock Northwards rendered a significant patch of the area out...
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    December 2014 TT changes

    An improved GN/GE Joint Line timetable, better connections, much reduced journey times, increased potential taking advantage of at least two shift operation throughout but using the same crew and, in particular, rolling stock as available now? If I was at EMT. I wouldn't dare even think it!
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    City AM: Full privatisation

    Don't forget that the first step into yield management probably was the abandonment of scale fares and the use of selective pricing adopted, if memory serves me well, in 1967; the thinking then being to charge the highest price considered that which the user would tolerate. It goes back much...
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    Kilometre - Kick it into Touch

    It hadn't changed much by 1961 although our weights and measures were supplemented by common sense behaviour when on or around the Queen's Highway. For all that I do get the impression that there are some people around who are of the opinion that the 1835 Weights and Measures Act destroyed the...
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    Northern and TPE Short List Announced

    Of course a lot of boxes can be ticked given an opportunistic flow of DMUs from Trans Pennine to Chiltern; if only Leeds was closer to Aylesbury.
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    Northern and TPE Consultation Document

    At least they have grasped the issue and are taking up a position of advocacy, unlike some council transport officials who thought all the consultation proposed was an exchange of through services between Trans Pennine and Northern but, other than that, with everything else remaining as now, and...
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    Kilometre - Kick it into Touch

    I don't know about Olive but we certainly had both Stan Butler and Blakey doubles at our local bus depot in Scunthorpe at the time. However, on the metrication front, in the garage we all purchased our own tools, with large amounts of both Whitworth and A/F spanners included, but when the...
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    North Holderness Light Railway...never constructed.

    And a further few pages of information is to be found in "A History of the Hull and Scarborough Railway" published by said association. I feel certain that at some time in the past an EM Gauge model was built and exhibited giving an impression of what the terminus may have looked like albeit...
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    North Holderness Light Railway...never constructed.

    The bus service actually operated a further one and a half miles beyond North Frodingham to terminate at Beeford and although various additions were tried including short lived services to both Driffield and Hornsea the route's principal terminus was Beverley, but in 1916 the service was cut...
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    Barnetby 12-08-14

    And 185134 at Barnetby working the 08.26 Cleethorpes to Manchester on a very wet and dismal 16th. August 2013.

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