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    Parsley Sidings (fictional location)

    According to Wikipedia it is a station on the London to Birmingham line in the Midlands. It was a radio series broadcast in the in the period 1971 to 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsley_Sidings
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    Unusual Insch Service

    Could these trips be something to do with the forthcoming platform extension works at Insch which are to carried out in 2019?
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    DB class 90 locomotive sighting at Kings cross

    Eurotunnel has ten former NS (Dutch Railways) Bo-Bo class 6400, five of them were purchased from DB Cargo, which work on engineering trains and rescue trains on HS1 and Channel Tunnel lines. I understood that they have visited St Pancras station.
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    Police Scotland to take over British Transport Police in Scotland? [Now on hold]

    Almost 95% of the funding for BTP comes from the TOCs. If they removed or reduced their funding the Scottish Government or Police Scotland would have to find additional funds to fill the loss of funding from the TOCs .
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    Scotrail Franchise - Abellio

    Benefits of fixed links are: you can travel when you want to (not constrained by a timetable), cheap (no ferry fares or road tolls), not always constrained by the weather, bridges generally do not break down.
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    First Midland Bluebird

    From the First Scotland East web site help section: https://www.firstgroup.com/uploads/node_images/Falkirk_Bus_Station.pdf Whilst there maybe the same number of buses passing through Newmarket Street. It is now a layover and crew change point, typical layover time of between 3 and 5 minutes...
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    Arriva Rail North DOO

    How many Deutsche Bahn services other than IC and ICE operate under DOO conditions?
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    First Midland Bluebird

    The double deckers at Balfron are used on school contracts to Balfron High School. Midland operate seven school contracts to that school.
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    Franchise failures and more

    Remember Connex South Central. It was removed from the South Central franchise by the Shadow SRA way back in 2001 .
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    Aberdeen - Inverness £170m Upgrade

    There are a considerable number of people who work in Aberdeen and commute by train from Dundee, Carnoustie and Arbroath. Freight trains to Aberdeen are routed through Perth instead of over both the Forth and Tay bridges. Would it not also adviseable therefore to double the section of line...
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    First Midland Bluebird

    Service 51, a lesson in how to make a service useless for the residents of Cowie and Bannockburn.
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    Availability of accessible rail replacement coaches

    Including the XPT services between Melbourne and Sydney, all rail services and those operated by V Line and most bus/coach services that are operated in Victoria are operated on behalf of the State. That is not the case in the UK. Four months ago I saw rail replacement services in both Avenel...
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    Availability of accessible rail replacement coaches

    One further complication that will arise in the very near future is LEZ compliance. How many coaches are Euro 6 compliant?
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    Songs that you associate with public transport.

    From the 1953 BTF short film The Elephant will never forget, about the closure of the London Team system. The ditty Riding on top of the car by George Lashwood. Also oh Mr Porter! Last train to Clarksville The Monkees Last train to London Electric Light Orchestra.
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    First Midland Bluebird

    Perhaps the FSE web page has more information to be added to it, e.g. maps. That is possibly why it has been taken down .
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    First Midland Bluebird

    How do you get to that from here: https://www.firstgroup.com/south-east-and-central-scotland Agree with comment #391 by Observer. There is no direct link to the abovementioned page on the FSE site unless you know where to look. Try entering the FSE web site find the Have your say page, it is not...
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    Why isn't the traction crisis leading to an increase in electrical hauling of freight?

    re comment #9, I understood that the new class 88 locomotives are also fitted with a diesel engine to enable them to operate in non electrified yards and other such locations.
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    First Midland Bluebird

    Perhaps the page was under test.
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    First Midland Bluebird

    "First Scotland East would like to invite you to Have Your Say on the proposed service changes to our Falkirk network at our Customer Roadshow Consultation Day on DATE from TIME at LOCATION (if on a bus be specific about location i.e. stance, Falkirk Bus Station etc.) We value your feedback and...
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    Availability of accessible rail replacement coaches

    I have always understood that a service bus is defined as shown below. a ‘bus’ is defined in the 1986 Regulations as a vehicle with more than 16 passenger seats but incapable of exceeding 60 mph; scheduled services are defined in Regulation 3 of the Bus service operators’ grant (England)...

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