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    Urgent TOPS Requests

    Many thanks, it eventually went to Hessle, Scarborough and York as 2Z03 arriving 29L didn't get to see it due it being late.
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    Urgent TOPS Requests

    Any idea what 2Z02 0925 ex York for Halifax via Harrogate today 23/10/2023 was? Tia
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    New sign at Sleights

    The main line was originally Pickering, then to York, the Esk Valley from Picton was much later so there are a few changes of milage along the current Esk Valley.
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    Railways in the Shetland Isles?

    There is a short length of standard gauge at Lyness on the Island of Hoy which was used for the vertical boilered steam cranes used to lift out and maintain the anti-torpedo nets for Scapa Flow. A few wagons rusting also.
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    Diesel Coasting

    1st Generation DMU's will coast and the vacuum exhausters will be driven through the final drive so in theory could go some distance. I was told a tale of Croft to Darlington after the fuel ran out.
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    Driver pay 1979/1980?

    As it says can anyone remember what drivers pay was in 1979/1980? TIA
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    Items you think should be BANNED which are aren't currently

    Perhaps we should have banned all flavoured vapes
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    Preserved DMU updates

    Oh yes.
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    Eurostar driver's french fluency

    Well some time ago a deer was reported as ' horse with pantographs raised' ;)
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    Level crossing accident at Pickering (21/05)

    That may not be a picture from today. The POGO is just south of that and is user operated.
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    British Rail Class 153 Cost

    I believe that pacers were pretty much sold for the cost of postage.
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    Are station heating costs significant?

    There is plenty of water in the Liverpool tunnels which will carry away the heat as it is pumped out.
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    How low on fuel do you let your car get before refuelling?

    Only once did I run out, on the garage forecourt within coasting range of the pump. Trouble is if there is a panic everyone fills up from a 1/4 and the country uses a fortnight's fuel in a couple of days.
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    Traksy Website

    Leeds platform 0 seems to be missing in what is otherwise an impressive resource.
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    Mk1 coach lighting query

    On a MK1 TSO (Tourist Second Open) there were 7x60 watts in the main saloon, 4 in the Non smoking end and 3 in the smoking end due to the additional partition. Above each main window there were 2x15w. At the lavatory end there were 1x15w in each lavatory, and 3x15w in the vestibule at that end...
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    Black Bull Level Crossing On The Old Pickering To Malton Line.

    I believe the NYMR started off with the ambition of Grosmont- Summit, North Riding assisted with a lease to get to Pickering, whose Urban District Council had other plans for the Station site which involved a public enquiry to resolve. I don't think there was really any thought or money for...

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