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I think the point of XC was that it could co-ordinate all the long cross-coutnry routes that in BR days were "inter-regional", so no one really had overall responsibility for them. Breaking it up and allocating it to the various regions once again (which is what the franchises basically are)...

She did look very nice at Weymouth, and in the sun, moreover. Looks alot better without those chrome bits, I think.

Roy Cropper would have been able to put them right ... --- old post above --- --- new post below --- In the book, he went to the Galloway region from St Pancras, so John Buchan knew something about it at least. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Why should doing Lord "Coe"'s...

rather an amusing piece in the local Paper today about how our friends at LOCOG aren't at all ripping anybody off, no. If you'd paid £55 for a Premium ticket to watch the Olympic Sailing Events, what might you expect? You'd expect a grandstand, wouldn't you? You'd expect covered seating, or at...

The basic problem with the world of British journalism is that they always feel that they have to have allegiance to one or other of the political Parties, and that makes everything so boringly predictable, because you know exactly what angle they'll take on any issue, and anything just turns...

I think the main reason is for freight, to give an electrified corridor (via the WCML and the MML, eventually) to Southampton Docks, mainly. Which would raise, as remarked previously, interesting questions about whether Freightliner were consulted on this, or whether the Government will expect...

is anyone beginning to wonder if the wires might be up before there are any trains to use them? :|

Now that Union of South Africa's finished, maybe they can devote some time to it. Pity they couldn't have sent it to Tyseley. They'd be guaranteed to do a good job.

Indeed, a logical opportunity to switch to the UIC system perhaps. it would free up a lot of numbers and avoid a whole lot of confusion.

recently, perhaps, but I think it's surely unarguable that the ECML, as the most glaring example, and arguably the Great Eastern, was done as 'cost effectively' (ahum) as possible. We see the results almost every week, don't we, a sthe wires come down somewhere or other.

That's for primarily freight, the 25 kv to southampton, (which does raise question of where Freightliner are going to get enough electric locos from; would any 92s be available [although of course they could use 3rd rail already]?), but I think because of technical reasons having AC and DC...

It appears that one Go-Ahead South or one or other of its many branches have the contract for the shuttle to the Olympic Site round here; I've noticed three or four Scania deckers and one or two new, unbranded More B7RLEs. In fact, they seem to have started work already; here's 1001 (YN54 AFX)...

Oh don't be silly, mr. T, this is just more hype. They know exactly how many will be interested in the Siling; the number that've bought tickets for the Spectator grandstand (or being given corporate hospitality), and they'll all come by car, of course, since they're Upmarket. What they're...

Abundantly.

is that because everything in the 3xx series has more or less been used, and the next available series (6xx) will presumably be used for the bi mode IEP, then, I presume?