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    East-West Rail (EWR): Consultation updates [not speculation]

    I see that the last of the segments from the Bletchley Fly over has been removed. according to RMWEB
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    Scotrail train travelling with doors open on Borders Railway 27/9/20

    Due to the fact that we only have 5 trains per day Uitenhage to Port Elizabeth plus return. We have very very old stock with sliding doors and nobody tells the passengers what they must do, Up in Joburg and cape town if the trains are late they think nothing of setting them on fire that's why I...
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    Scotrail train travelling with doors open on Borders Railway 27/9/20

    If you pull the Stop button on our trains in the middle of summer (no A/c) you will find yourself flying out of the said door because the people on the train open them to cool off.
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    HS2 construction updates

    I see from the photo,s that there are two TBM,s will they be used side by side or is one for another site.
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    Up and Down lines in UK

    I understand that the Lancashire and Yorkshire were up to Manchester Victory.
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    Container lorry brings services to a halt

    Wrong road is the offender not the railway.
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    Container lorry brings services to a halt

    Just a point about signs etc, I have just watched a short vid about 11/9 Bridge in the USA its got all that and yet this still happens so what next.
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    Staff down tools at Manchester Victoria following assault 19/12/2019

    Yes one per cent is like 1 person with a knife and one member of with none and possible DEAD.
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    Is First Class too expensive and should it be abolished?

    You cannot do away with First Class because what would the train manager (or whatever you want to call him/her) do to people in standard class who have reserved seats which have been taken by somebody who will not move.
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    Staff member assaulted at Manchester Piccadilly

    Here in South Africa its got so bad that the Black People now Kill their own people who they say did it, this is because the Police and the Courts are not doing their Job to their satisfaction.
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    Stations not centrally sited where previous central ones were closed

    Hope you did not mean Mumps as that was out of town.
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    Rails in the Road - not tramways

    My farther was born in wood street and I worked at English Steel 1957/1963 and there was still Steam engines working the route and I stood and watched them.
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    Stabbing incident at Manchester Victoria.

    I live in South Africa and all policemen & women are armed so guess what the gangs do they get hold of some guns and them go and rob the police stations of all the rest of the their guns. It has happen a lot of times est 100 to 200 GUNS STOLEN.
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    Merry Christmas 2018

    And all the Best from sunny Port Elizabeth South Africa
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    Why is so little of the British network electrified compared to other countries?

    I wonder when some of the towns and city's will tell the cov and network rail that ALL diesel engines will be banned to enter their area's under the clean air / health and safety acts as they will be trying to do this for all other transport.
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    What improvements would you make if the railways were built today?

    No to Fencing on the railway like the rest of the world they don,t seam to bother them like us in South Africa.
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    Blackpool - Manchester Electrification

    And the same here from South Africa.
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    Diverted trains passing crowded platforms at speed

    If you did slow down you will get some fool trying to jump on.
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    Unattended bags

    What no one has said was the dispatcher unsure of the OP as he might have been a bad one and she was worried about her safety if she had spoken to him.
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    Blackpool - Manchester Electrification

    Thanks for that I did wonder.

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