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    Lumo - new Open Access operator on the East Coast Main Line

    "Contrary to popular belief, our passengers are not prisoners" (from the 'Reimagining rail' page) Seems a bit of an own goal!
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    Ugliest Bus Liveries

    Promoting Merseytravel's multi-operator ticket https://www.flickr.com/photos/mals_uk_buses/38449010030
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    Buses that change number or say its connection guaranteed but same vehicle.

    Arriva's Chester to Holywell/Rhyl is like this https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/wales/services/11-11a---holywell-to-chester/?direction=outbound There's a service 12 which starts at Rhyl and ends in Llandudo, though no through service
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    Trivia - signals that never change.

    Unsure if it's still lit Rock Ferry station has a signal on the disused platform at danger
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    Weirdest Oddities Still on the UK Network?

    Llandudno did until a few years ago The 'road' down the platform is still there, albeit inaccessible now since the station building was refurbished in its path
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    TPE Mark 5A coaching stock progress

    Somebody has posted a video of the train on Twitter https://twitter.com/mr_w_snapper/status/1043071413899485184 Certainly sounds like wheel flats near the 68 end
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    What is your controversial railway opinion/idea?

    Renationalisation isn't the brilliant idea people think it is. Provided it would be done with enough thought, planning and organisation; sure, but I doubt that'd happen
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    Merseyrail launch new on-board entertainment carriage

    This chap has a large speaker, a mic and some DJ equipment
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    Weird Things You See People Do on the Railway

    Wonder where they er... got off o_O
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    Arsenal vs Liverpool potentially to be moved to Christmas Eve (Update: plans now abandoned)

    The buses do start to wind down early, usually about 6
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    RMT dispute on Merseyrail

    Like anything 99.9% of the time, there's no problem Obviously there will always be idiots, more of them on the last services of Saturday evenings for example During daytime services I would say I've never felt unsafe, and I've used the network all my life
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    how do fare dodgers get away with it?

    Seen the barriers doing that at Lime St a few weeks ago, the one member of staff on gateline waving people through Judging by the volume of passengers and the one open gate, I can't imagine it was the most thorough ticket check
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    16 Coach EMU?

    And on the Wirral, 18 cars travelled from Chester a couple of years back, in icy conditions qSNzGt1-0b8
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    Hornby Forum

    I wasn't a fan of the old forum to be honest, I think it had turned into a question and answer box between new members and a couple of regulars. There wasn't much available for people to show off their layouts or their plans, and the forum itself was slow and basic without any image embedding or...
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    Have doors ever been opened on the wrong side...

    I've been on a Class 507/508 before and the guard has opened the wrong side, dangerous in case anybody fell onto the live 3rd rail within touching distance, especially since a lot of people would have been queueing at the doors ready to get off as it was the terminus.

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