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    Route avoiding replacement buses

    I am going from London to Kings Lynn next weekend and the trains are replaced by buses between Royston (or Audley End) and Cambridge. Going by train via Peterborough is quicker but it is unclear whether I can use a normal ticket that way during the replacement or would have buy a ticket or...
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    Avanti West Coast in late July

    We’re travelling on a weekday (26 July).
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    Avanti West Coast in late July

    I’m trying to buy tickets from Glasgow to London at the end of July. The National Rail journey planner is currently telling me “No fares available for this journey” and “Train times from Saturday 17 July onwards may not be available and current timetables are subject to change”. Is there another...
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    Swiss Train Derailment at Lucerne/Luzern

    Is it the most serious Pendolino accident anywhere since Grayrigg?
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    Trivia: Good Designs

    When the compartments were ripped out of the middle carriages of the 501s they were left with no handhelds apart from one luggage rack at each end.
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    Alstom trains for USA

    Alstom are building faster trains than that for Africa, but never mind.
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    Trivia: Platform to TOC ratio

    Depending on what you count as being different operators, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express at Hassocks, Burgess Hill and Wivelsfield (2 each).
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    Class 222 and MML

    Could they do that if they got lighter replacement engines?
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    The Douro meter gauge lines in Portugal

    Are these the very wide carriages I rode up the Douro valley a few years ago? I was quite sure at the time that the 2+2 seating was first class and not particularly mean with it.
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    GEML franchise 2016

    The bimode version has a power pod that is mounted on two bogies.
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    Favourite European Metro Stock?

    The metro in Lyon with its distinctive rounded trains. They were still orange when I rode them (not my picture though).
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    What level of compatibility will TPX Mk6(?) coaches have with existing stock?

    From Flickr: Gresley buffet car W9135E at Exeter St Davids, 7-8-76.
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    Class 43 HST cascade fate

    Bombardier and Alstom are willing to make joint bids for Belgium. What is the difference here?
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    Irish Loading Gauge

    Like the Great Western then?
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    Cross Paris RER

    Take care with the signposting though. Some years ago my party got split up and some people went through the wrong barriers to the Metro.
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    Ordsall Chord

    It might be an excuse along with the previous Bishopsgate Goodsyard case to push through changes to the Transport and Works Act that allow the authorities to rid roughshod over opposition.
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    Trams proposed for Isle of Wight

    I meant full-size flanges.
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    Trams proposed for Isle of Wight

    Could you resolve the track twist problems by fitting railway tyres with deep flanges to trams for off-street use? Alternatively, how much red tape would there be importing second hand metro trains from abroad?
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    Ordsall Chord

    The line through Shoreditch High Street was the target of extensive litigation that was a lot like this case.

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