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Motorway Driving - too many idiots
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Having been a driver for half a century, I don't think that driving manners have become worse, rather I think that there is a lot more...
Yesterday at 00:04
Dr_Paul
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Pacers on Long Distance Routes
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Living in London, I've never had the dubious pleasure of riding in a Pacer. Much as I have enjoyed riding in four-wheelers on the...
Tuesday at 00:12
Dr_Paul
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Pedestrian underpasses and safety/desirability
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I don't remember that one. There used to be a long gloomy subway under Tottenham Court Road / Charing Cross Road / Oxford Street; the...
9 Apr 2024
Dr_Paul
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Former British car marque revivals.
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I agree with a lot of previous comments. It would be a pretty meaningless gesture for most people, for whom the old names are something...
22 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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Garage use?
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The 1930s privately-built housing estates were often built with back alleys wide enough to take a motor and a garage at the bottom of...
19 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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Strawberry Hill — New Fencing Replaced
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Some ten months back I posted the following: Travelling through Strawberry Hill station the other week, I noticed that brackets had...
19 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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Worst examples of BR era "vandalism"?
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I agree. Broad Street really was a sorry wreck by the 1980s; even had the North London Line retained a City station, it would have...
9 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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Are Stansted, Gatwick etc. "London airports"?
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I imagine that a high-speed railway link to central London would have been envisaged as part of the project. It's not so much distance...
9 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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Worst examples of BR era "vandalism"?
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The old buildings at Highbury and Islington have always appeared to me as rather excessive even by Victorian standards, along with some...
9 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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So many announcements, so few people taking them on board
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I had a similar experience yesterday evening. The Kingston loop service was at Hampton Wick, but the train's tannoy announced that the...
9 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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What are the piles of soil next to Woking Station?
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Perhaps it's building material for Woking Council's skyscraper-building scheme, which has been such a wonderful money-making venture for...
5 Mar 2024
Dr_Paul
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[Trivia] How many stations? And when does one station become two?
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To what degree, if any, is Victoria run these days as two stations? Even after the formation of the Southern Railway, the two halves...
29 Feb 2024
Dr_Paul
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Preacher on SWR
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Years back, a young work colleague came into work with a big grin on his face. He told us that coming up from Gillingham, where he...
21 Feb 2024
Dr_Paul
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Sitting with a person when a train is empty
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My dad and I had front seats on the DLR some years back, and a little kid came up to the front, and I said, 'Do you want to drive it?'...
19 Feb 2024
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Sitting with a person when a train is empty
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19 Feb 2024
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