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    Gatebeck Tramway

    This 212+ page pdf file will tell you all you need to know about the site https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1893-1/dissemination/pdf/englishh2-67295.pdf relevant extract Note: "Crooklands Wharf" is a canal wharf on the Lancaster canal
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    Are fine consequences too overkill?

    There's a simple answer to Railcard offences. Get rid of railcards altogether. Then reduce the price of ALL tickets by ~20% (exact figure to be determined) There could be a case of offering discounts where you have multiple people traveling together on one ticket But if it was done, you'd...
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    that's because you've got possible confusion with Kirkby (Liverpool), West Kirkby, and (closed) Kirkby Lonsdale. There's nowhere close named Barrow to be confused 1714005391 Geographically Cark-in-Cartmel is correct. The station is closest to Cark, and Cark is in the Cartmel peninsula. Cartmel...
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    Differences in the adoption of 'bogie' coaches between the UK and USA

    generally replacing rotted out wooden underframes with iron/steel the replacement had to be done anyway, and building the longer underframe was more cost effective
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    trivia oldest and newest together

    This page (Page is a pictorial record of the closed Durston-Yeovil line) http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/taunton-to-yeovil.html has two photos of 30585 at Yeovil Town in August 1962, around the same time as a class 22 was outbased at Yeovil Town shed for pilot/banking duties on...
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    70000 on The Lakelander 13/4/2024

    what caused it to fail?
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    [Trivia] Largest UK railway station to have a subway and/or footbridge but no lifts?

    I thought the subway covered all seven platforms, without a lift. If there is a lift then that's something else
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    PF/UKRT Western Champion 'One Way Wizzo' Railtour 14/4/24

    So who's running the sweepstake on how far it gets before breaking down? :D :D :D
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    Pre-nationalization diesel (or petrol!) railcars/sets

    Is that the same as the Donegal narrow gauge network or something different?
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    [Trivia] Largest UK railway station to have a subway and/or footbridge but no lifts?

    But are you still allowed to use the barrow crossing? Or has that been restricted? 1713023181 But if you go back the the original question: "What is the largest UK railway station to have a subway and/or footbridge connecting one or more platforms but no lifts?" it could be Preston? That has a...
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    Trivial - The stone signal box like structure in Carnforth

    That attribution was stated on wiki so just maybe it's in error - or maybe they had a hand in more of the boxes. That's something that may never be known as it seems all the records were destroyed when the last partner retired. But in national terms it is an oddball with the tapering walls and...
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    Trivial - The stone signal box like structure in Carnforth

    Just been reading more about Austin & Paley and it seems they had a hand in many of the Furness Railways' buildings. They built these stations, maybe others Kents Bank Grange over Sands Ulverston Bootle (Cumbria) Millom Cark Kirkby-in-Furness Sandside Askham Seascale Foxfield Ramsden Dock...
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Wild guess Green Hornet?
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    Grange-over-Sands Derailment - Response of local MP including idea to run a shuttle service

    That bit of track next to the birding hides has always been a problem, I wonder if the recent spring tides covered it?
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    Trivial - The stone signal box like structure in Carnforth

    Austin & Paley If you want Gothic, they were the local go-to team. A lot of their work in Lancaster
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    OK I will keep quiet as I had to look it up
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    Grange-over-Sands Derailment - Response of local MP including idea to run a shuttle service

    That's really soft ground.... I wonder what they have found there.
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Should the fourth one actually be J.S.?
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    General Knowledge Quiz

    Presumably the AC/DC song is "It's a long way to the top 'if you wanna rock 'n' roll'" But I still don't see a connection
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    Railway General Knowledge.

    Mr Block? :D

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