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    South Devon Railway, Totnes, 1988

    I am looking for the exact last date that the South Devon Railway (as it is now) ran into Totnes main line station. There's plenty online to confirm it was 1988, but when? Such moves definitely happened through mid-August; I suspect the last was 1 September. In 1988, that was a Thursday - is...
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    Ealing Broadway to St Albans

    I will travel to St Albans tomorrow (8 July), crossing London en route. Are tickets to City valid via Abbey station, please? My local station could not get the system to issue a fare to Abbey, only City. Journey planners consistently give routes to Abbey as City-then-walk. I would thus...
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    Historical 'headcode'

    Short Q: What was 8K23? Longer version: a contact asks "I have a photograph of D817 Foxhound with the headcode 8K23 – I believe the photo to have been taken in the early 60s and the locomotive does look new and shiny [...] It stands alone, outside possibly a cleaning shed, with several people...
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    London cable car

    According to https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2022/september/new-sponsor-for-the-london-cable-car-announced the 'Emirates Airline' cable car has a new sponsor and will become known as 'IFS Cloud Cable Car'. I suppose cloud is a mildly appropriate name, at least as much as...
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    Bernard Cribbins

    In case not already seen, Bernard Cribbins, star of 1970's 'Railway Children', passed away today. Here is the BBC's obit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13099773 (edit: typo corrected)
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    Irish trackside sign

    Trundling around Ireland I have seen many examples of a trackside sign that I would be grateful if someone could ‘interpret’. It is a white circle about the size of a speed restriction sign, bordered black and with a black letter V. I have not seen any clear pattern with where they appear.
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    Scotrail, Abellio and April

    It has oft been said that Abellio stops running Scotrail from April with the Scottish operator of last resort taking over. Things have been quiet recently. An article published 23 March at...
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    Station owners

    This is my take on stations not owned by Network Rail. The greater number are Transport for Wales property, part of the Core Valley Lines, but there are lots of others, too. Abbey Wood Transport for London Aber Transport for Wales Abercynon Transport for Wales Aberdare Transport for...
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    Christmas special in RTT

    I note that a) the usual 'Santa' run has now appeared https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:S73184/2021-12-24/detailed and b) there's no official link from Santa's team (yet) to allow RTT to show service formation :)
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    Vertical integration? or separation?

    With much talk in the UK about 'bringing together track and train', it's interesting that in Japan they have taken the first move to separate track and train. This article explains...
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    Long station announcements - possible solution (not perfect!)

    Further to this (now closed) thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/station-announcements-too-long.218507/ The Swedes have come up with a solution, their method to be not to have announcements at all unless there is some change. Article text:
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    Anyone any good at Javascript?

    I know nothing about Java. What I have on my website is what I have searched for online! I have two functions that appear to conflict with each other. Individually, they work exactly as required. Together, only one works (which one depending on the order they appear on the page). The...
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    Recreating lost train types

    In this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/class-210-driving-motor.212311/ there is some discussion about recreating a class 210 for preservation out of bits from other classes. In a similar, though more extreme, vein there is a class 23 under construction from a class 37 body and...
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    Derwent Valley Light Railway operations 'off the end'

    This concerns the historical railway (which, incidentally, was never grouped or nationalised), not the current preservation scheme. As far as I can tell, the Derwent Valley Light Railway (DVLR) owned and operated its line from Layerthorpe (near York) to Cliff Common (near Selby). There were...
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    Prees and Yorton stations

    In one of the Covid-related threads (https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/cambrian-stations-temporarily-closing.205644/), someone posted that a load of TfW-run stations had to close (temporarily) for social distancing reasons (i.e. short platforms so the guard can't keep clear of passengers)...
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    Weather resilience

    Here is a new thread about weather resilience in response to the Stonehaven derailment thread. brad465 wrote: Network Rail is effectively doing that anyway now around the country. Obviously, there are many constraints limiting how quickly it can be done. Also, certain places might have land...
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    Reading: which loos?

    This NR press release: https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/toilets-at-reading-station-reopened-following-major-refurbishment starts What it apparently doesn't say is to which toilets this refers. Is it a bunch on the platforms? Larger ones just behind platform 1-3 buffers underneath...
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    HS2 and fork lift trucks

    A press release went out recently, copied on various industry news outlets (one example at http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com//HS2/hs2-trials-uks-first-electric-forklift-/257400), that opens with: This appears to claim that electric fork lift trucks never previously existed in the UK until...
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    Railnet (dates required)

    Around the year 2000 saw the start of what was supposed to be a super-efficient rail-based Royal Mail distribution system known as Railnet. It served terminals at: Bristol Parkway Dallam (Warrington) Doncaster Low Fell (Newcastle) Princess Royal Distribution Centre (PRDC) (Willesden)...
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    Scotrail to Leeds? (Network Rail press release image choice)

    According to the image on this press release (https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/network-rail-invites-residents-and-passengers-in-leeds-to-find-out-more-about-platform-zero), Scotrail will run class 170s to Leeds platform 0! Presumably reinstating much of the former Midland Railway's...

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