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    Lineside yellow cylinder???

    How to monitor if they are empty?
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    Simplified overhead electrification

    What is the top speed of such simple tramway style overhead electric line in realistic? 25mph?
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    Glasgow Subway new stock

    Emm, I was almost looking forward to being able to take the front view viedo but looks the trains in service have a opaque partition to the cab.
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    Manchester Metrolink

    I found an old Metrolink plan in an old book Metro Maps of the World, published in 2003. In the plan the Manchester Airport stop should be a through platform to make a interesting loop route, and there are show the extension planned to Stockport.
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    New Rail line near Newport

    It seems typical that some people use their "professional fields" to commit corruption, usually by consulting firms.
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    List - Heritage Railways Operation Railcars

    Ah, l will add it on my list, so the line would be extend to Junction Road Halt right?
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    List - Heritage Railways Operation Railcars

    For the past year I have been looking for heritage rail systems in the UK that offers a forward view through cab partitions. Now l have a incomplete list and l haven't visited any of small heritage lines such as Isle of Wight Steam Railway. I wonder if I missed other heritage railcar trip on...
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    People Power in Spain - reopen an old north-south line

    For Japan's experience - that need localities to pay (most of) funding for rebuild/maintain such branch railway operations, no money - no railways. Localities will own the lines and have the option of A. operating their own trains. B. Give operating to large railway companies. If the opening of...
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    Headbolt Lane progress updates

    Yes, and with physical token.
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    Heritage railway financial problems.

    There are obvious example in Isle of Man, full electric fleets on Manx Electric Railway but still attracted a large number of tourists.
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    Southampton Cruise Railway Terminals - When were they last used?

    From Google Maps and Railway Track Digrams Southern & TfL I noticed that both cruise terminals in Southampton - P&O Terminal and QEII Terminal have rail connections but l never hear any boat trains serviced to them in recent years. When were they last used (I can found the last boat train video...
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    Single points of failure: are the UK's railways less resistant than they used to be?

    This fresh video is a good example about how easy those graffiti groups trespassed the infrastructures.
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    England's late 20th century good old days - reality or rose-tinted?

    Or, the question in the non-western countries has always existed but due to lack of way of the information in the past may not be known to ordinary people. Relative economic advantages between The iron curtain fell and 2000s and lack of information from outside the West have given Westerners a...
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    Longest trip that you can see front through the cab in UK

    i did that at easter, it is a good trip and got a cab view record about 40 minutes long.
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    Which city in the UK is most likely to get a Tram/Light Rail system next?

    Or, tramway / light rail company responsible for the development of housing along the line, and construction of commercial facilities own by the tram / rail company in the new town.

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