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    Strike Action Travel On Alternative Day Query - Avanti/TPE

    A family member is due to travel with Avanti on 3rd December and has had an Advance ticket booked for a while - the ticket is London Euston to Huddersfield (booked this way as there is engineering works meaning no LNER from Kings Cross) Route Avanti and TPE Avanti have announced their strike on...
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    Leeds Passenger Info Failure - 2nd Feb 2023

    It looks like Leeds are having some challenges today with the screens - I arrived at the station a short while ago to find all the boards in various states of reboot, the odd manual announcement and a fair bit of confusion. Luckily the station is currently relatively quiet. The only board I saw...
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    Railway Empire

    I can't vouch for the game, but it is available for free, seemingly for a few days, in case anyone is interested https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/railway-empire/home
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    Covid : Positive Test Results v Number of Tests

    This has been mentioned in passing in a few threads but I thought it was worthy of its own. Has there been any indication as to what the positive test results are as a ratio of the overall number of tests being carried out (thought being in an area)? Having gone through the fixation of an "R"...
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    Reminders for hand cleansing in places with no sanitation facility that normally would

    Apologies for the title - I couldn’t think of anything more succinct! My example is from a recent visit to Scarborough station (for its deafness inducing ‘68 under the shed’ effect, naturally) where there is signage about hand sanitising etc as may be expected, but the installed ‘sanitising...
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    "Winking" tram destination screen on Sheffield Supertram

    Whilst on Supertram yesterday, there were a number of trams (the Siemens-Duewag ones) on depot that had eyes on the end destination screens - some where both eyes were open and one where they were winking. I believe the side destis had "EYES" and then other references on it, but I didn't get a...
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    Great Harwood Loop Walk - 13th July 2019

    Following on from previous walks, the day took a small number of us (@Crossover, @Hadders, @Starmill, @yorkie and @table38) to Lancashire to walk along the open sections of the Great Harwood Loop, a line which used to run from Rose Grove to Rishton on the East Lancashire Line, bypassing...
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    Gainsborough Central - Platform 2 Signal (towards Retford) Query

    A group of us visited Gainsborough Central at the weekend to utilise the new service that runs there. At the moment, movement from platform 2 (ultimately the Brigg bound platform) back towards Retford is controlled by a mechanical shunt disk (referred to as a dolly, I believe) As I understand...
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    Whitstable to Folkestone - route validity via Ashford/Ebbsfleet

    Looking to travel from Whitstable to Folkestone for the day tomorrow (just noticed the time...later today!), but having not done the full Kent Coast line was looking if one could return the opposite way to the outward, ie one way via Dover and the other via Ebbsfleet? Would be looking to travel...
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    HST Powercar on M1 - 10/12/18

    Not something you expect to see appear in front of you on the motorway! An unidentified powercar heads north on the M1 at around 16:20 this afternoon, seen at J22. I'm afraid it isn't a great picture as it is from my dashcam (so also all legal before anyone asks!) - please also excuse the...
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    Thames Turbos at Coventry?

    I have just passed a siding outside Coventry as the line to Nuneaton diverges, in which are two GWR Turbos. 165125 was one of them (2 car) and the other was a 3 car (may have been 16x103). What are they doing all the way over here?
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    Bite Card - Replacement

    I lost my Bite Card a few months ago and have now twice requested a new one and also contacted them most recently via the contact form, still with no response and nothing received in the post. Has anyone else received a Bite Card recently or is this a common occurrence? Whilst I know the...
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    Reissuing of date boxes for Rovers

    Is it possible for date boxes to be reissued for rovers, in this case where the ‘boxes’ have been lost? Scenario being still having the ticket portion of the rover which has just completed day 3 of it’s validity (of an 8 in 15) - valid from 9th June I think I know the answer but thought I’d ask...
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    IOU Theatre "Rear View"

    I thought some may be interested to see the slightly unusual IOU "Rear View" bus - photo attached from part of its time at Halifax's Piece Hall over the last few days Converted from a standard double decker, it now features tiered seating facing backwards, giving the audience a view out from...
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    How many people have exactly the same commute as you?

    http://www.alphr.com/life-culture/1008827/tfl-shared-tube-commute-tool The actual link to the tool is https://your-commute.london.gov.uk/ I don't live in London so don't commute on the Underground so can only play with 'random' station combinations
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    Hereford - Paddington: Cancelled stops due to driver shortage | Sunday 11th March

    I was on the 1432 from Hereford to Paddington on Sunday (http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C50199/2018/03/11/advanced) which was announced from the start (including at Hereford) that the train would not call at Kingham, Charlbury and Hanborough due to shortage of drivers (initially reported...
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    Class 321 ECML Mainline Services

    Asking on behalf of a friend - does anyone know when (and for what reason) Class 321's ran mainline services from Yorkshire to Kings Cross? They can recall it happening, but can't remember the details.
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    Manchester Metrolink | Reliability/resiliency of comms and contingency in failure

    It seems to be getting more regular that we hear of comms faults on Metrolink, often leading to suspension of the entire network. It must be at least 3 times this year so far that such an incident has happened whereby the whole network ends up affected, in some cases for hours at a time. Whilst...
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    Outlook.com (Hotmail) Issues - 18th September 2017

    As I suspect a number of people here use Outlook.com (Hotmail, as it was), I thought I would post to point out the service has experienced issues today - reports are they could continue for a little while As an Outlook.com user, I have not received any email since this morning* and cannot...
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    Beachcomber: 100 years old and still inexplicably delayed...

    I thought some people here may appreciate this which was pointed out to me this morning. https://www.express.co.uk/comment/beachcomber/852285/100-years-old-inexplicably-delayed-train-tickets

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