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    RRail Needs Assessment for the Midlands and the north - call for evidence

    https://www.nic.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/NIC-Rail-Needs-Assessment-Call-for-Evidence.pdf You have a week to respond
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    BBC: Chris Grayling suggests future rail industry wage rises should be linked to lower CPI, not RPI

    Well at least I managed to get a couple of minutes on Radio Four's "Any Answers" to get a kick in against what the Tory party inflicted on us twenty five years ago, that the answer is re-unification of the industry under railwayman management and that Grayling must be sacked. Full Stop - end of...
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    Fifty years since the end of steam: Any commemoration planned?

    If you read what I said - all I asked is that for one day every ten years our "preserved railways" should perhaps reflect their origins. Of course railways have to be commercial - what they don't have to be is arrogant and unsympathetic to their own histories. If modern managements and...
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    Fifty years since the end of steam: Any commemoration planned?

    This is the railway that after thirty years in business can't even find a loco of its own to operate, and despite your disdain for enthusiasts is looking for them to fund the purchase of a loco to operate on the line. I rest my case.
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    Fifty years since the end of steam: Any commemoration planned?

    Dear Neil - standing room only yesterday at Loughborough - you really need to revise your business outlook!
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    TBF out and about

    Fifty years since the end of steam - time for a visit to the galas at the Severn Valley and GCR. Chose to go by train to both - when will I ever learn??? fifty years since we had decent length loco hauled and Mk1 and 2 trains to travel on, comfortable seats and you could trust timetables...
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    Fifty years since the end of steam: Any commemoration planned?

    I did the SVR today - a bit curate's egg! No book signing because there were no books. 5110 and 8773 cold and silent, 5110 getting oiled over by a bunch of old codgers - who seemed quite familiar somehow! No working Black Five because 5231 failed its boiler test. 43106 on one injector but...
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    Fifty years since the end of steam: Any commemoration planned?

    QED - plot lost, probably never to be found again. The night amongst real railwaymen and real enthusiasts was a pleasure.
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    Fifty years since the end of steam: Any commemoration planned?

    Shaw - whilst I do not disagree with much of what you say - if for a single weekend on the 50th anniversary the people who run our "preserved" railways cannot acknowledge where their hobby and jobs came from, then they do not deserve our custom or support and have become merely fairground rides...
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    SRPS Dining

    Its basic sustenance with no pretence of fine dining. Polystyrene cups of soup, plates etc, plastic cutlery and very basic food. A case of if you don't want to carry sarnies or patronise the buffet car but no more.
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    Fifty years since the end of steam: Any commemoration planned?

    This weekend must be the biggest disgrace since preservation began with the exception of the SVR and the GCR. The main line promoters are an absolute insult to what happened fifty years ago this weekend. No steam to Blackpool or over Copy Pit. No steam to Carnforth - you couldn't write it. As...
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    What are the railways in this country for?

    There is only one purpose for the railway industry and that is to be as profitable as possible for its shareholders. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just naive. But the railway industry in the UK makes a net loss you say - and that's why the UK taxpayers are being bled dry by the most byzantine...
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    Housing development near Rose Hill: Possible impact on services in the area including Middlewood?

    Andy "what do I say today?" Burnham - master of the soundbite. Mind you, I agree that High Lane is one of the sites to be taken off the table. GMSF want compliant site owners and the High Lane crowd don't want this at any price - didn't know dairy was that profitable! I am likely to disappear...
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    £400 fine!!!

    Go and see CAB and get some proper advice.
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    Housing development near Rose Hill: Possible impact on services in the area including Middlewood?

    And as I wrote the budget for the shortly to open Hazzle Grazzel to Airport section of the A555 I shall take the appropriate amount of notice of your comment. If you want improvements - specify works appropriate to the need.
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    Housing development near Rose Hill: Possible impact on services in the area including Middlewood?

    Splitting the thread is the province of the mods on here - so we will have to wait. Middlewood is but one option. Take a spur off Reddish South and connect near Brinnington - now you have a real Stockport to Marple link with calls at Bredbury and Romiley. A curve just short of Bredbury onto...
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    JohnW1's Photos

    50 years ago tonight Bolton, Newton Heath and Patricroft close to steam. Then there were three. What has happened to commemorating the most damning summer in the history of our railway??? No mainline excursions. One Club Night on the 3rd August and two half hearted attempts on preserved...
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    Keep your head in!

    I will be 68 in a few weeks. I have been window hanging since I was in primary school So Am I borderine suicidal?? I am still alive and have all my faculties, head and limbs. So No. Do I know exactly what I am doing - even if it does drive today's politically correct generation wild?? As...
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    Scarborough; TPEx reliability

    Travelling north east from Tameside was a doddle until last month. An hourly service to at least York where changing was not a game of russian roulette as to whether you ever saw a seat again. Now you are forced either onto an all stations to Leeds, hardly a Trans Pennine EXPRESS, a rugby scrum...
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    Scarborough; TPEx reliability

    When I am travelling I prefer one train and one seat throughout - not getting in and out to serve the interests of the useless operator who has hitherto provided trains from Tameside. We all know the reputation of TPE for overcrowding - so if you think I am stupid enough to fall for that one -...

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