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    Great British Railways: Replaces Network Rail & more changes - updates only (non-speculative)

    We were never going to get that. I don't know why you would get excited for it considering it had a 0% chance of happening.
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    Great British Railways: Replaces Network Rail & more changes - updates only (non-speculative)

    Yeah but everyone is talking about branding. Gotta focus on the important things. :rolleyes:
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    Best and Worst First Class

    Thameslink 319 First Class was awful but no longer exists.
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    IET's grounded - what would you run?

    "Putting all your eggs in one basket" is a piece of advice which means that one should not concentrate all efforts and resources in one area as one could lose everything. Don't know why that popped into my head. Oh well.
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    Would it be better to declare Beeching closures 'Damnatio memoriae'

    Here are a few recent examples of station closures. Newhaven Marine - obsolete Angel Road - replaced by Meridian Water Rochester - replaced by new station Folkestone Harbour - obsolete IBM - obsolete Redcar British Steel - obsolete Abercynon North - replaced by Abercynon Nowhere does it say...
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    My proposal to get rid of 3rd rail and convert routes to overhead lines

    Yes, I know OHLE is the superior standard. But where if the value for money in converting 36% of Britain's electrified network? Sure the SWML could be converted but the government will never ever pay the astronomical costs of a full conversion. Nor will they outlaw existing 3rd rail as it is not...
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    BBC reporting that heritage railways will run out of coal in 2021

    Why not? I can be grown and America has a huge surplus of it.
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    Have electric vehicles been "oversold" to the detriment of public transport, walking and cycling?

    To stand a chance at preventing climate change, you would need a successful green movement in places like China. Not Europe and Australia. That is never going to happen for obvious reasons.
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    My proposal to get rid of 3rd rail and convert routes to overhead lines

    Will there be a demand to replace the rest of the country's third rail for anything other than "safety"? Especially since it is grandfathered in and accepted.
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    Should the West Ealing-Greenford Line be electrified at 25 kv OHLE and pass to London Overground with 378 or 710s?

    Overground is just a brand for Tfl's suburban rail services. It made more sense for Romford-Upminster to go to Overground instead of the Elizabeth Line.
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    Island Line Upgrade updates

    The Class 484 trains will be retired long before we ever think about replacing third rail.
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    Island Line Upgrade updates

    Why use unproven battery technology when you have a perfectly good third rail? I really don't think passengers on the Island want to be guinea pigs for this.
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    What is the current status of Crossrail 2?

    Plenty of pork barrelling to be done elsewhere.
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    BBC reporting that heritage railways will run out of coal in 2021

    Sorry for sounding ignorant. Could alternative (more environmentally friendly) fuels be used to the same effect?
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    Will the Waterloo & City line ever reopen? (Update: now open!)

    People honestly talking about permanent closure and a filming location as if it's the Ongar central line branch.
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    Manchester Recovery Taskforce (timetable) consultation

    Post-devolution many Senedd members would want to use such a service.
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    Vivarail exports to USA

    Vivarail's argument is that a demonstration will be a lot cheaper than a consultant's report (which will inevitably say how expensive a metro system would be). It gives cities an opportunity to try it out for themselves.
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    Would it be better to declare Beeching closures 'Damnatio memoriae'

    Lines and stations should only close if they are completely obsolete (Newhaven Marine etc) not because they have low passenger numbers. Closing the Heart of Wales line to fund East-West Rail is a false economy.
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    Drinking alcohol on a station platform - is it permitted?

    Happened to me before on LNER. The Doncaster - Leeds portion was brutal. 1619268137 I was more referring to yuppies with cans rather than the Ale trail people.
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    Drinking alcohol on a station platform - is it permitted?

    Drinking alcohol should be banned on the railways like smoking. Transpennine at the weekend is full of drunk loud middle aged men and it's really annoying.

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