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    World War II - US Army Ambulance Trains

    Some years ago while staying at the caravan club site in Malvern the reception building had a photo' of an ambulance train at the station. I did get a copy of it at the time but I can no longer locate it.
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    Orion high speed logistics letting the train take the strain.

    The ROG web site says Jan 2022 for start of services https://orion.railopsgroup.co.uk/#timeline
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    Strangest livery/train combination?

    If an operator has a corporate image then I see nothing strange in any of their stock carrying that livery.. I can even understand freight haulers painting engines in the livery of their customers, but it can be strange if those engines work inappropriate services. A few years ago GBRF allocated...
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    Stansted Airport Future and the Railways

    You seem to have been lucky. For a number of years I lived in a house from which you could see both the M11 and M25, regularly saw the congestion on the southbound M11. One day I decided that rather than take the Stansted Express into Liverpool Street and then the Central line towards Eppinng, I...
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    Stansted Airport Future and the Railways

    I have always lived about 30 minutes, by car from Stansted, so have used it as a railhead to travel from rather than a destination. My main complaint has been XC's fares. Most of the time a Stansted - Birmingham direct fare is much dearer than going via London. Even worse are fares to LNER...
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    Trivia: single lines with multiple operators?

    Also in East Anglia is the stretch of line around Downham Market used by Thameslink and Great Eastern. Another short line is the tunnel at Stansted airport used by GE and Crosse Country. As per note below GE should be Greater Anglia - posted after a long day. (Edited)
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    Dismal Stations Which Give A Poor First Impression Of The Town They Serve

    With a few honourable exceptions this thread seems mainly made up of "stations I dislike" than actually answer the question posed in the OP To illustrate my point I refer you to Harlow Town, which has been mentioned earlier. As with Coventry this is Grade II listed, but it fits well into a...
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    TRIVIA : Most Unusual names for bus/coach operators (current/historical)

    In my bus spotting days I always wondered why a secretive communist country on the Adriatic ran a local company - Premier Albanian
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    What is a train?

    Well 51 posts in this thread and of those I think three actually provide a possible to answer to my question and the title of this thread. There are few others that have added useful clarification. To me the key elements are (I have taken the first post to mention something, so thanks and...
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    What is a train?

    When talking to school children (up to the age of 11) about railways there are two questions that come up time and time again: how old is it? what is a train? I must admit that having started to search the internet for an answer to the second question I am even more confused. I thought I had...
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    Most effort/work spent on a railway project that ultimately never happened?

    Although not a railway benefit some costs recovered through aircraft manufacturing in WW2 and reduced costs of bus maintenance over many years
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    Most effort/work spent on a railway project that ultimately never happened?

    Although not a single project.,. Every bid for a franchise costs a significant amount. This cost of failed bids has to be absorbed elsewhere. Over 30 years this must add up.
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    Khan manifesto: Overground lines to be named - what would you call them?

    Perhaps the Goblin line should be called the Larkby line. For those mystified by the name Graham Larkby has run the lines user group for many years. I first met him professionally in the 1990's when Graham would appear at every opportunity to promote and defend the line and probably saved if...
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    Rail Rovers and Rangers- all missing from National Rail Enquiries website?

    None of the rangers in my area, Greater Anglia, work. National ones do.They are still on the GA site so have not been withdrawn.
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    TRIVIA: Non-authentic trains in films, TV shows and other media

    Not SR stock, they use a blue filter to film a night shot during day time. This turns red to green it's most noticeable here that the buffer beam on the loco is bright red. Therefore the coaches are redish.

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