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    Why were the class 27 built?

    When the class 27 started production the class 33 were already being built as a class 26 development, and the class 25 were also being built. It's always struck me that it would have made more sense to have built the 27s as the higher powered 33 given that many of them initially went to freight...
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    ENCTS pass timing validity

    What counts for deciding if an ENCTS (English National Concessionary Travel Scheme) pass is within time limits? Actual time of the bus? Or the intended timetabled time? Had a case today where the bus home from my favourite pub arrived two minutes early at 22:59 instead of the timetabled 23:01...
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    Yeovil-Manchester football special route 1949?

    On Saturday, 12th February, 1949, six special trains took 3,000 Yeovil supporters to Manchester for a fifth round FA Cup tie against Man Utd at Maine Road (Old Trafford was still bomb damaged). Presumably they departed from Yeovil Town station or maybe were split between Town & Pen Mill, but...
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    Can anyone ID a freight train at Preston last night?

    Can anyone ID this train and what it was carrying? Freightliner set hauled by two orange class 90s passing south through Preston around 20:30 on 6th Feb Only freight carried was around six or so white isotanks with flammable liquid labels. Tanks were spaced out along the train - at least two...
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    Brutal honesty from Avanti

    Heard at Lancaster today. "The xx.xx to xxxx has been cancelled because..... Someone was hit by a train." I've never heard it so clearly stated before. Usually the message is more ambiguous. Policy change?
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    Ukrainian saboteurs blow up Baikal-Amur Mainline (Russia)

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/ukrainian-saboteurs-blow-up-russia-s-main-trainline-to-china-in-huge-blow-for-putin/ar-AA1kMZ39?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=e83f508893594fa5a0f6006579f0e6b6&ei=14 Ukraine's security service has blown up the Baikal-Amur Mainline
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    Tests underway after mysterious orange-coloured water floods Whitehaven railway tunnel

    Rail engineers are trying to find out how a mysterious orange-coloured water has started to enter Corkickle tunnel...
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    Class 195 - dangerous doors?

    I boarded 195121 tonight at Preston, it was working the Barrow train leaving Preston ~19.35 Queue of 15-20 people trying to get off at door A1/A2. The hustle alarm went off as the fourth person exited, with the door shutting almost immediately trapping someone. Pressing the external door button...
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    Online all-UK bus journey planner?

    Is there an online journey planner which enables you to plot bus-only (not train, not coaches) routes for the whole of the UK? I've just got a NOW card and I'm trying to work out how easy it is to travel long distances using it Everything I've found wants to route via rail or coach
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    Snake on a train

    Yesterday, Shipley-Leeds Presumed corn snake loose on train https://www.lancs.live/news/uk-world-news/snake-train-leaves-passengers-terrified-27378904?int_source=nba ==edit== obligatory quote from article added
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    Seat reservation stupidity................

    Here we go again, another pair of entitled idiots....... got on a northbound Avanti at Wigan NW, after five minutes a middleaged couple accosted me "You're in our seats" I asked them to explain "We booked these seats but we sat in some better ones with a table, but they were booked by someone...
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    RRB with non-working chair lift

    At the moment Rainford-Kirkby (Merseyside) is an RRB service while the Headbolt Lane works are carried out. Today I saw a totally unacceptable failure to provide support to a wheelchair user. He got on the train at Wigan Wallgate, using a joystick controlled electric wheelchair. He was...
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    So what's a penalty fare zone?

    I made a return trip from Morecambe to Kirkby (Merseyside) today and overheard guards happily selling tickets on Northern services in transit Morecambe-Lancaster in transit immediately after leaving Rainford on the platform while waiting despatch at Wigan NW (guard on a Wigan-Lime St service)...
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    Another USA hazchem crash

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/freight-train-carrying-hot-asphalt-molten-sulfur-plunges-into-yellowstone-river-as-bridge-fails/ar-AA1cZ1wz?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=3cc732053da7467ae1e430c5f6979eee&ei=12
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    Swiss experimenting with solar panels between the rails

    https://www.railway.supply/en/switzerland-proposes-installing-solar-panels-between-railway-tracks/ Dunno how they'll cope with Swiss snow...
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    Solar powered tram-train

    https://www.railway.supply/en/chinese-crrc-has-produced-the-first-battery-powered-tram-train-for-argentina/ Argentina has just taken delivery of this solar-charging battery charging tram train Not a very performance demanding route, but another option to look at for Windermere, Morecambe...
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    Bus deroofed in Glasgow, three in hospital

    Three in hospital after bus roof cut off in bridge crash https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-65665113 plenty of warning signs However looks like it got under one bridge before hitting the second. Maybe the first bridge should have shown the tighter restrictions for the...
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    London Underground trains should have proper corridors between coaches

    Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/northern-line-train-evacuation-at-clapham-common.248161/ one thing this proves is that Underground trains need proper corridors between coaches, so there's a real escape route in the event of fire
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    Electric MCV / Volvo

    Two of the single desk buses in the linked press release photo in Stagecoach colours heading north up the M6 past Preston 4pm today on trade plates so clearly a delivery run. The article says MCV and Volvo have just signed an agreement to build them, that's clearly old news. With the deep...

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