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Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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Some great memories there. I remember an ailing DMU being banked from Stourbridge Junction once.
14 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Is the Heathrow Express a viable, worthwhile service?
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Right, so you've reached your conclusion already, just a pity that there don't seem to be any actual facts out there. Yeah. Right. I...
13 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Is the Heathrow Express a viable, worthwhile service?
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If Paddington is supposedly 'full' can anyone confirm that Network Rail has declared it to be 'Congested Infrastructure"? It doesn't...
13 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Euston overcrowding at TfL/LU entrance caused by new Network Rail departure boards
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Over the years several London termini have had more organised Underground access. St Pancras immediately springs to mind. Paddington...
13 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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How did railtours work in BR days?
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(Having just come across this thread) I think that the penny had dropped on older coaches only used at weekends rather earlier. The...
13 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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Thanks for the extra background @Magdalia . Braintree was Shell and Esso by the way but you had the right idea. :smile: Block trains...
12 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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You might have thought that but the number of freight depots fell from 6,395 at the end of 1948 to 5,475 by the end of 1961 - a...
11 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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I think that the problem is that virtually all freight was operated on a ‘wagonload’ basis. The large power stations, refineries and so...
11 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Cycle Bag Searching at Stations
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Is the right answer IMHO. (I only used to leave some very tatty wet gear in my panniers, which anyone was welcome to inspect or nick if...
10 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Yet another Manchester rail tunnel thread
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Has the OP thought about a complementary set of freight tunnels to link Trafford Park in all directions, various stone and waste flows...
10 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Pre-nationalization diesel (or petrol!) railcars/sets
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The OP may enjoy looking at LMS Diesel Locomotives and Railcars by E V Richards, RCTS 1996. Although mainly about shunting locos and...
10 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Embargo on recruiting new staff in BR 1979/1980?
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There was a strike in the steel industry that left many rail staff at particular locations idle for weeks and hammered BR’s cash flow...
10 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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There's jumping the barriers then this.
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Surely we should all be ‘thankful’ for public vigilance around the railways, e.g. bridge strikes, trespass, vulnerable persons...
9 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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I'm not clear that 'withdrawal of services' or 'closure' is the same as 'abandonment'. In many cases in the 1930s formal abandonment...
9 Apr 2024
Dr Hoo
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Beeching Cuts and the Big Four
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I'm pretty sure that the obligation only related to facilities insofar as they existed. The various Handbooks of Stations and so on...
8 Apr 2024
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