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    Post World War 2 - peoples views of Germany?

    mods note - split from this thread I was preschool and primary school in the '50 and living in SW Essex, there were plenty of visual reminders of the war years, both in the destruction of urban properties, and the continuance of food rationing. My parents generation would repeatedly say,: "the...
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    Ticket Office at London Bridge.

    Simple question really, - I am attending an appointment at Guy's Hospital today and will be travelling from St Albans direct to LBG on Thameslink. I intend to get a super off-peak London Thameslink return ticket, but NHS appointments being as they are, it may mean that I am not able to catch the...
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    Can Kings Cross be used for Thameslink services during disruption through the core?

    Ccould probably minimise the impact by terminating at Kings Cross and for MML services use low level platform A or B*? The other line, if safe to operate with ongoing recovery operations in hand, could be used for short flights of through trains, (say 2xBML and one Sutton loop). It would...
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    How to retain a home landline number through the changes to 'digital' telephony that Openreach is introducing.

    I have a combined broadband/landline service from John Lewis that is effectively a tailored Plusnet package. John Lewis have informed me that it will not be possible to crete a new analogue contract after September this year and they will be discontinuing their product by the deadline. They have...
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    Demolition work at Carlton Road junction.

    In passing Carlton Road Junction north of Kentish Town on Tuesday, I noticed that the north to west chord of the triangle (Carlton Road jct. to Mortimer St.) is closed to traffic. That is because there is demolition work over the tunnel Tottennham north curve (visible from the MML slows) where...
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    Buy to Let, Right to Buy & the Housing Crisis

    Mod Note: Posts #1 - #30 originally in this thread. In many areas, it's worse than that. Whole rows of ex-council houses that the council was forced to sell at ridiculous prices to tenants by the Thatcher government, are now owned by landlords charging full market rates. So, houses built for...
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    Poor class 700 ride on MML yesterday.

    Travelled from St Pancras to St Albans yesterday evening on 9T50 Ex Brighton on unit 700133. In my experience all the 700s I've ever been on handle the worst bits of the MML fasts around Hendon to Mill Hill pretty well even at 100mph, but last night there were a couple of quite severe sideways...
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    Tube services today.

    TfL's status page is saying that on the Jubilee line today, there will be "Minor delays between Finchley Road and Stanmore due to train cancellations. GOOD SERVICE on the rest of the line." I need to travel from Stanmore to North Greenwich today, does this mean that there is a limited service as...
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    Installing ‘dummy’ 3rd rail on a preserved railway and the potential safety issues?

    mods note - split from here. Installing a dummy 3rd rail with warning notices would be a serious safety failure, - especially anywhere near operational 3rd rail territory. It would devalue the genuine warning signs once the word was out that the preserved track had warnings just for trivial...
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    Is this alternative route valid?

    I am planning to travel to York from St Albans on 17th September, the original (somewhat obvious to me) route was to use TL form St Albans (SAC) to St Pancras (STP), then LNER fro Kings Cross (KGX) to York (YRK). Both the LNER and TL journey planners include a RR bus journey from (SAC) to...
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    Passenger density of new Metro/Outer Suburban EMUs

    There have been a number of threads where discussion has concentrated on the capacity of the latest fleets of EMUs and the seating/standing arrangements adopted to achieve them. To get the relative effects of these arrangements I dashed up a spreadsheet to determine the passenger per metre train...
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    Claiming Delay Repay on both legs of a period return ticket

    We have just returned from a 2 week holiday in Cornwall, travelling on a super off-peak return from St Albans City to St Ives. On the outward journey, our eventual arrival at St Ives was 30 minutes late. Thus I can claim for a 30 minute delay from GWR, which is 25% of the cost of each ticket...
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    Using buses on holiday in cornwall.

    Can anybody please give a definitive answers to the following questions about bus ticketing in Cornwall: a) can non-Cornwall ENCTS passes be used for travel on named bus services such as the Lands End Coaster, Tin Coaster and Atlantic Coaster? b) do all of the day passes, (Ride Cornwall, £5...
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    Request for advice on travelling to Cornwall in June.

    We intend to travel to St Ives on a Friday in June and are concerned that as that is well into the shoulder season, the formation of the train isn't shown (yet) so could be a 9-car, a 2 x 5-car or worst of all a single 5-car. We are focusing on 1C80, the 12:04 to Penzance as so many of the...
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    Would missing a train owing to a lengthy queue at a booking office qualify for delay repay?

    I have been reading the recent thread 'Merseyrail Penalty Fare - no facility to purchase' in which @Watershed commented that "TOCs basically say that if the queue is long, it's tough luck and you're supposed to miss the train." On a frequent local or Metro service that might be inconvenient, but...
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    New class 309 video on You Tube.

    I stumbled over this video today: "Class 309 - the Clacton Express". I couldn't believe my eyes, it opens up with a 309 running through Ilford. For those that remember the 309s in any of their roles, this video is a good record of their lives, even a few seconds on one in it's original maroon...
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    Will the declared objectives of Insualte Britain soon be seen as relevant?

    This is a question not about activities such demonstrating, protest, obstruction or outright vandalism*, but concerning the central issue that the movement was setup the highlight. As the cost in both monetary and environmental terms of keeping the nation's homes at a healthy temperature gets...
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    Pacers on GWR.

    I was just wasting a bit of time looking at one of the live Dawlish webcams, as a consist pulled away from the station towards Teignmouth. It had a 2-car 150 leading and what looked like a 143 behind. Are Pacers still being moved around in the south-west?
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    Manufacturers of autonomous vehicles to be legally responsible for incidents caused by malfunction.

    The Law Commissioners have ruled that the manufacturers of autonomous vehicles will be legally responsible for the consequences of any malfunction. Provided the driver meets certain criteria, they will not be legally liable for failure of the autonomous controls to respond correctly to ensure...
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    The various news outlets and whether they are biased to the left or the right.

    mods note - split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/when-will-it-all-go-wrong-for-the-tories-johnson.219414/ If he didn't know then he's incompetent and shouldn't be in the job. Oh, this myth again. Among the mainstream press in the UK, the top ten UK newspapers by...

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