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    LT Museum, Covent Garden

    As I understand an annual pass is all they sell, the day ticket is one that allows you to come back for a whole year, the Tank Museum down here is the same.
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    The "And in other news..." thread

    Well if you wanted to show something that put a capitalist country in a bad light...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    The conservatives new money making venture, Nadine Dorris on Only Fans, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
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    Bishops Lydeard - Frome/Westbury service?

    I bet go-op have plans for a service from Bishops Lydeard, they've had enough ideas for services in the area.
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    I believe that First had picked Siemens for a HST replacement but the whole IET process and electrification happened. As with other posters there is no reason propping up Derby if the output continues to be dire if there are better manufacturers assembling trains in Britain, plus Siemens trains...
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Yes, by all means put in a requirement for a minimum amount of local production, but it only works if your local production is good enough. I think a lot of car manufacturers don't have many good words to say about American manufacturing! but that us a bit off topic.
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Thinking about it, if Siemens make a success of Goole then is Alstom's only advantage taken away. Given all the issues Bombardier/Alstom have had would anyone actually want to order more stock from them if there was another company assembling trains in the UK with a much better track record...
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    Potential future uses for class 68 & Mk5 sets?

    It's probably a 99% chance that they will go to Chiltern as they will need the least amount of training and loco hauled train familiarization, plus the locomotives are already known to them. Assuming the replacement body panel plan for the locomotives works then the noise issues should at least...
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    East Anglia planned pylons

    and naturally a wet insulator (well assuming it's not distilled water!) will conduct some electricity to the structure, causing corona discharge
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    Strip glazing vs Rounded windows

    Not when the windows themselves rattle!, the upstairs emergency windows on our 65 plate E400MMC's are terrible rattlers.
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    East Anglia planned pylons

    Won't the buzzing just be 50hz hum, the "crackling" will be discharge, the 33kV lines on wooden pylons that go through work can be quite loud when it's damp.
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    Companies That You Expect to Disappear Soon

    Though interestingly there seem to be a few independent merchandise/figurine/card game shops springing up so there must be demand, Weymouth has two such shops that seem stocked well enough.
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    Good Customer Service In The Bus/Coach Industry

    Last year I was getting the bus in to work and it didn't show up, the real time display was just alternating between 6 and 5 mins (or thereabouts), obviously bus had broken down and I was resigned to catch a different service that would mean a 10 minute walk to my destination and being late for...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    A strange thing happened today in a supermarket I went into where they were giving out free milk, 2 pints of CO-OP semi-skimmed, still well in date with the 30th on them. Why was the milk free you ask?, well said supermarket was a Morrison's!, obviously a stuffed up delivery and as I suppose...
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    Supermarkets discussion

    I would have thought that driving a Ferrari like a 2CV would cause an accident quite quickly, when you've got no power it's rev it to the max!

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