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    Can computer modelling be used in the testing and designing of timetables on a large scale?

    When it gets to the stage of the argument where claims are made that progression is impossible because the people who are currently undertaking the task are completely overwhelmed by their workload, then it's time to admit the current method is no longer fit for purpose.
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    Can computer modelling be used in the testing and designing of timetables on a large scale?

    There are many, many subjective calls. Dying people are usually very complex cases with multi-morbidity. That's why we are data led. But with subjective consideration - Even when the data says "yes we can", some people just don't want any more procedures and to die at home. But are you...
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    Can computer modelling be used in the testing and designing of timetables on a large scale?

    That's fine, for the MRI data that I look at daily, there is always a subjective call. I can assure you there are millions of variables to consider when looking at a 4d flow of blood through major organs and the software is more than capable of handling it. That's exactly what the humans do...
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    Can computer modelling be used in the testing and designing of timetables on a large scale?

    Lots of negative feedback to your comment, but it's absolutely accurate. There is masses of computer power at our disposal. The average reader looking at this on their SmartDevice probably has more processing power under their domestic roof than every single machine that BR had put together...
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    Glasgow St Enoch - Plans to transform Glasgow car park into huge multi-storey hotel, flats and pub development

    Is it still owned by the Church of England? It doesn't seem that long ago that they were fighting the original planning covenant for the "leisure facility" and successfully obtained permission to close down the ice rink.
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    Glasgow St Enoch - Plans to transform Glasgow car park into huge multi-storey hotel, flats and pub development

    I don't hear any campaigning to bring back Strathclyde Council, although we were lumbered with too many Councils back in the 1990s changes. What's the point of Clackmannanshire? But back to Scotland's West Coast HS2 terminal... Who knows what the retail map of Central Glasgow will be in in...
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    New Smartphone contract advice

    It's all down to Coverage. Don't forget if you work for a major company, they probably do a discount. Both Vodafone and EE do 20% off SIM Only and with Phone for NHS workers and other big companies. I'm paying £18 a month on a 24 month contract for a Motorola G8 Power (Enhanced battery) with...
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    Safety razors

    Where are we talking about? Had my neckline lasered a few years back. My ears are usually waxed by a Turkish barber when needed. Below the neck is either waxed or clippered depending on time of year. There's no way a cutthroat is going near by baw sack. For face it's a Philips one blade -the...
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    Send with a Cheque...

    A listed company in which I invest is undertaking a capital raising exercise, so the forms arrived with a crash through the letter box this morning. All fine, it's a relatively small amount, albeit with a short turn around time to consider. But to invest, I need to send a cheque... So, having...
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    Was the InterCity Express Programme (IEP) a success or not?

    That really doesn't matter. If you have to deny the existence of a batch of trains that ran up and down the West Coast mainline between 1980 and 1986 in order that the story fits your agenda, then that tells us all you need to know about the quality of research and journalism at your preferred...
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    Why is the UK completely incapable of treating public transport as a whole?

    I can see the benefits. All the bus and coach services that run in competition with the railways could be swiftly ended, helping to push passengers back onto the railways with their generally higher fares. Just think of the wasted duplication that could go. The intensive M8 services between...
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    Was the InterCity Express Programme (IEP) a success or not?

    This was the statement:- I've identified a train that blows that statement out of the water. There was no statement to say "Every train manufactured worldwide since the 19th century, except the APT"
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    Was the InterCity Express Programme (IEP) a success or not?

    Lots of buts... The statements was:- "It has been confirmed through its complex procurement and running agreement (Agility) to be the most expensive train in the WORLD." There were no detailed exceptions or exclusions to this statement. The claim is that Modern Railways examined in detail...
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    Was the InterCity Express Programme (IEP) a success or not?

    If you use something that you don't own, you can brand it any way you like, but it's a lease. There's little difference between an Agility lease and the MFD in the corridor at work. All I do is go outside and press print - Ricoh record the number of prints and the toner level and send a new...
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    Was the InterCity Express Programme (IEP) a success or not?

    They were Inter-City trains that entered passenger service.
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    Was the InterCity Express Programme (IEP) a success or not?

    Well, that's just silly. *Nowhere else* in the world are trains procured or run via Agility. It's exclusively a British Rosco and they only lease 80X series trains. When people choose to use capitals to repeat content, instead of delivering some clear numerical evidence, it just makes me more...
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    Department of Transport Categories

    Aww, Baltimore is lovely! Have you been? If you go down to the stadium, there's a "slow train" to DC - considerably cheaper than taking the Acela and not much slower. The B&O Railroad museum is well worth a visit too. Only the county town since the 70s! It is famous though... Isn't that...
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    Nova1, Azuma, AT300, IEP, 800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 807, 810. Is there not a common name we can use?

    It's tradition for the same style of units to have different names around the regions. In the North they had Pacers, and in the West they had Skippers. A wee look around a Cornish and Welsh dictionary comes up with the following:- Cornish for West - Gorlewin Welsh for West -Gorllewin Just...
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    Department of Transport Categories

    Reading - London Commuter Town York - Delightful City.
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    Trivia: Most sparse platform at a major station

    Doesn't the early/late LNER service often end up in there? Are the Perth end bays (at Stirling) now signalled for passenger use?

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