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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    Its a toll bridge like the Dartford Crossing on the M25. I think the toll booths were removed just before 2020. Its all APNR now. It will have stop lights like most highways.
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    Introducing RailUK Tickets - support the forum when booking your rail tickets!

    Its not actually clear quite clear how that fee is calculated though hence my original question (and the clarification from other posters). I agree about the differential fees being impractical and I do roughly understand the economics of third party retaillers, my point is that in marginal...
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    Introducing RailUK Tickets - support the forum when booking your rail tickets!

    Yes youre right. i think the issue I have is that trainsplit is charging its commision on a full price product which I would never buy even if trainsplit didint exist. I think that very few people from Kent would generally buy cross London tickets now. You use a site to check for availability of...
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    Unless that was a spad assuming Preston's all point motors, wouldn't that need to be a signaller error or defective equipment?
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    WCML blockade - impact on EMR services? (29/03 - 01/04)

    I'm sure it does happen but it's either not typical or I'm very lucky. National Express, Megabus and Flixbus don't seem to include that sort of delay in their schedules either. When I'm driving the M1 south of the M6 is not really a road that living down the M20 I often use to head north tbh.
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Id imagine they will run to the nearest place they can be transferred to road.
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    Introducing RailUK Tickets - support the forum when booking your rail tickets!

    Ah thanks that makes sense. £6 fees on £24 tickets does seem a bit steep though. An interesting side topic for me anyway was that because one of the tickets of my basket of 6 journeys was routed +any permitted the whole lot were delivered by TOD even though all the trains Im booked on can use e...
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    Introducing RailUK Tickets - support the forum when booking your rail tickets!

    I have a question concerning the "share of saving" fee and the beta cross london by contactless function. It appears to me that the site still charges the fee on the London Element of the fare even though Im not buying that. The overall fee was 17.2% or £6.19 on the saving of £34 which is...
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    Routes for season ticket - Bexhill to Sevenoaks

    The reason that Bexhill (and Eastbourne) to Sevenoaks are relatively cheap is that they are priced by Southern instead of Southeastern. All fares priced by Southeastern were increased by RPI +5% rather than RPI +3% applied to the rest of the rail network in the years folllowing the opening of...
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    NYMR news and updates.

    In our case there were no liability, finance or ownership issues it was just a failure in normal service. It was the first one on this type of coach we had suffered in 20+ years. Despite trawling all the rest of the heritage railways nobody had a spare of this type of spring. The 10 months was...
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    Possibly, In the Almo Bridge disaster I refer to above the middle of the bridgewas lost. A lorry driver who was able to see the missing section stopped his lorry reversed and blocked the single carriageway. Several car drivers coming in the opposite direction didnt realise that the bridge...
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    NYMR news and updates.

    Probably more difficult than it sounds. It took us something like 10 months last year to have a new spring manufactured for one of our Hastings Line Pullmans at the K&ESR.
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    Tickets from London Thameslink

    I can understand London Thameslink being a problem. Take St Pancras. If your destination is north its a london Terminal. If your destination is Southeastern it depends on the route. if the route is plus HS1 its a London Terminal. If the route is not hs1 its St Pancras or Zone U1. If your...
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    The Almo bridge in Sweden was a standard concrete type bridge: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/lfaawk/the_alm%C3%B6_bridge_in_sweden_collapsed_at_0130_am_on/
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    Not Ryanair UK which holds a CAA operators license.

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