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    Class 67 question

    Thanks for the replies people.
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    Class 67 question

    Can anyone please inform me which class 67 worked the 10:45 LDS-KGX south of PBO today? I was on the train & intended to npte the number when I got to the blocks but literally as I got about 4 coaches away I got distracted by a very important phone call which meant I had to dash for the next...
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    Coombe Junction reversal. Is it unique?

    Trains between Mallow & Tralee reverse outside Killarney station as well as at the station. Also,when the Welsh Highland Railway first extended to Porthmadog they had to reverse on The Cob before running into the FR station. I believe the WHR now have their own platform so this reversal is no...
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    SRPS Routes & Branches 1st & 2nd June 2018

    Which members are on either or both of these tours? I gather there have been a few changes to the planned route & motive power although not too much.
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    Little Used Lines in Birmingham

    In the late evening a few services are also being routed via Soho.Perry Barr,Walsall & Sutton Park.
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    Class 56 at York query

    Early this morning at about 00:10 I was passing over the footbridge just south of Holgate Junction when I witnessed a Colas class 56 heading northbound with what appeared to be an engineers train. As it was dark & it caught me unawares I didn`t see the number. Can anyone identify the locomotive...
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    Trivia:- stations with fewest passing passenger carrying trains.

    A couple of weeks ago I was on the 09:30 Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen which went non-stop through Inverkeithing & Kirkcaldy. Does anything else omit these stations?
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    Examples of surprisingly high mileages given to towns on UK road signs

    Are we including the gimmicky sign-posts at Land`s End & John o`Groats?
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    Ant McPartlin fined £86,000.

    The punishment should fit the crime. Yes,he deserves to be banned & fined but that fine seems excessive. It`s like saying that becaus he`s a high-earning celebrity that when he shops at Tesco he should pay more than a customer on the minimum wage. Punish him by all means but punish him fairly.
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    Who would you like to make train passenger announcements?

    Jim Davidson using his "Chalky" voice.
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    Dog Fell Between Platform and Train.

    I once witnessed a guide dog fall under a stationary train at Doncaster. Im`m not sure how it became separated from its owner but thankfully the train wasn`t scheduled to depart for some time & quick-thinking station staff quickly reunited dog & owner.
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    Scarborough Spa Express 2018

    Also on official West Coast Railways facebook page.
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    Football

    Wrong! MUFC won the Premier League in 2007,then won the Champions League in 2008.
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    Race and Forum

    I`m caucasian British. Father from Scotland,mother was from Kent. My birth certificate says I was born in Howdenshire! A grandfather that I never had was from Alderney & I believe I have some Irish (pre the re-shaping in 1922 so were they British or Irish?!) ancestry.
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    Trivia - lines which take you in the opposite direction?

    Ffestiniog Railway at Dduallt.

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