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    Köln Hbf

    I'm on the ICE to Frankfurt, and was making good time until Köln, where we lost around 15 minutes sat in the platform and crawling over the Hohenzollerbrücke. This seems to happen on any train I'm on through the area, is it just air is there a more technical reason why this seems to consistently...
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    Small train yard near Stoke-on-Trent

    Just searched and found this. I see this yard a lot, so it's just a storage until restoration or scrap? Not been as much as I have been recently but there's an old tube carriage and a couple of other heritage ones that I can't get a decent look at. What will happen to all these?
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    Eurostar St Pancras - is bedlam normal?

    I travel on it every month or so, and whilst the lounge can be busy, I've never known it like this. Although last time I used it a fortnight ago there was building work so may well have something to do with this
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    Two trains on the same track

    Surely they already have the basis of this signalling, otherwise how are locomotives signalled in and remarshalling done?
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    Balkan states

    I just used the Flixbus and the globtour Medjugorje Websites. They both took you to the same booking engines, these were for buses in Croatia and Bosnia. Our apartment overlooked Mostar railway station and we thought the shortcut through the station would be a good idea until we got to the...
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    SBB CFF FFS considering direct trains to London.

    I do this journey a lot as my partner lives in Bern, and the only people I've ever seen checked are non white people, with the exception of me and my dad when we were going to football in Basel, they even checked we had match tickets before letting us in! I'd love this to become a reality as...
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    Manchester Metrolink

    On a completely different note, in the city centre, the Cornbrook corridor and various stretches on the Altrincham line there seems to be a lot of very restrictive speed restrictions, which seem to be long term. I'm specifically thinking of the one at Dane Road, and where Mosley Street station...
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    Manchester Metrolink

    No chance of the early morning airports coming back? They're a lifesaver on earlies
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    Intercités de Nuit

    Next summer I'm hoping to travel on the Intercités de Nuit to Portbou. From my brief searching online this isn't running even the Friday night it usually runs during winter. Will this be running by July, is it covid related? Or is it just guesswork like a lot of international travel atm
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    Unusual moves Belgium

    Thanks! I was thinking of going through Aachen so that could be of interest then come back on the IC from Eupen
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    Unusual moves Belgium

    Due to the impending lockdown in Saxony my travel plans have changed and I have a free day in Belgium in a couple of weeks. I will be staying in Mechelen and was wondering if there's any unusual stock moves to travel on or some aging or loco hauled stuff around. Thanks!
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    Early Morning Metrolink

    Since the early morning Airport services have been withdrawn, there seems to have been silence about when, or if, these will return? Has there been any announcement I've missed, or even rumours seeing as the network seems to be getting back to its usual running
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    Least used track in regular use.

    Monk Bretton down to the glass factory? Been informed one freight a week
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    Covid Specials: could they call at Wembley?

    Man City played Spurs yesterday in the Carabao and Avanti put two trains on for City fans travelling from Manchester. It seemed bizarre putting them in a bubble and providing negative test results when they were forced to travel from Watford or Euston to the stadium on public transport. Why...
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    Examples of non-UK rail services run primarily/wholly for leisure travellers?

    I'm enjoying this thread, some of these are definite trips for the next few years! Especially the one I saw over the Gottard, been through the base tunnel fairly hungover, but would love to go over the top
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    Least Used Terminating Station

    Stalybridge surely, one a week
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    Metrolink Covid WTT

    Is there anywhere online we can access the current metrolink WTT?
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    Northern Unit Refurbishments

    So, virtually all bar two or three have hsd the new branding and refurb. Once this is done do they concentrate on 769 or is it more to bring the fleet to modern standards, ie wifi, charging points etc?
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    Non-Urgent TOPS Requests

    Ah sorry. No I meant the 1217 Halifax to Hull
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    Hydroflex - testing

    Whilst it's progress, the motor/hydrogen tank/converter takes up a whole carriage, and it barely made 50mph. A while yet before it's feasible in service

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