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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    Banksy. His latest effort and everyone is falling over themselves to say how wonderful it is: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68596824 The other view is that this is vandalism and encourages others to do the same. I bet there wouldn’t be the same fawning response if someone else had created it.
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    Class 43 disposals

    The Nigerian vehicles were unloaded some time ago in Lagos.
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    GBRF confirms conversion of Class 56s to Class 69s

    Yes, they are.
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    Interesting journeys in Belgium and the Netherlands

    You mean thankfully. Those old units were utterly rancid.
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    They are being re-geared back to what they were when new (i.e. as 4-car 458/0s), when they worked Reading line stopping services. It wasn't a problem then. As they were intended to be used as 12-car formations on the Portsmouth line presumably the traction software reflects that and limits...
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    Trivia: When did the last loco hauled services operate on normal passenger services from each London termini?

    There is nothing preventing a Class 43 power car from hauling any LHCS Mark 1, 2 or 3 vehicle provided a) it is air braked and b) has a buckeye coupler.
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    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    But are significantly better riding than an IET. That is not to play up the Mark 4 ride, but to illustrate just how utterly dire the IET is. It will be intresting to see how the sets for EMR ride given the significant differences in bodyshell from the 80x fleets.
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    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    So legendary, that I've never heard anyone mention it, ever, until now. And that is after both travelling many tens of thousands of miles in the leading vehicle of an HST and it has never come up in any conversation I have had with people who have travelled on them far more than I have. No...
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    Worst examples of BR era "vandalism"?

    I think the reference is to Snow Hill tunnel in London, between City Thameslink and Farringdon. That was everything to do with NSE. So maybe you also need to brush up? ;)
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    The 003 number is the set number, so of course it is the same each end, like it is the same both ends on a 450 or a 444 (for example), or any other fixed formation multiple unit.
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    GBRf Class 73/9 Locomotive Questions.

    Yes. They regularly work on third rail power.
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    'The Master Cutler' - Friday 15 March

    There was a pathing stop in the schedule, not a stop for staff purposes, so if people have made assumptions it would stop, more fool them.
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    Russia invades Ukraine

    The Telegraph’s Matt cartoon for the Russian election today rather sums up the situation. (Cartoon of Russian Election result as a pie chart with “Voted for Putin”, “Voted for Putin twice” and “Fell out of window” as the three categories)
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    'The Master Cutler' - Friday 15 March

    43468/480 and six Mark 3s are stabled at Chaddesden tonight, ready to go for the tour in the morning.
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    NYMR news and updates.

    Well quite clearly they have done something about it, because if they had had negative cashflow of £2.6M in the last twelve months they wouldn't still be running!
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    But they are as much use as the proverbial "chocolate fireguard". They do nothing to address the chronic situation that SWR is in - it's capacity added at times when it is isn't needed. If they ran (say) on the Reading route in the slot of the old 1735 or 1805 from Waterloo they would actually...
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    Horrendous Hull Trains East Coast ride

    So not “only”, then! And the bodyshells are different: length is around 2m shorter for a start. To borrow a phrase, other than the bodyshells, engines and aesthetics, what have the Romans ever done for us? Oh, and the seats…
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    South Western Railway Train Cleanliness Survey

    They might also see the graffiti tags on the trains that don’t get removed in a hurry, or the crisis in the fleet that is of their own making. Such a change from Stagecoach days, when you would regularly see senior people out and about.
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    It will likely be dependent on WCRC submitting a credible, detailed, time bound plan for CDL fitment to the ORR. That’s the same basis as other operators. Anything less than that and you’d suspect there is no chance.
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    RailAdventure Power Cars

    Ex-Virgin CrossCountry, Grand Central and East Mids.

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