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Recent content by SquireBev

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    Trivia: stations facing the wrong way for the town they serve

    On a recent trip to Leamington Spa it struck me as very strange how the station faces away from the town. The forecourt and main building are on the "wrong" side of the line, which you have to pass under to get to the town centre. Having looked into it, it's because there used to be another...
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    L&Y Awning Colours

    This may be of some help: http://www.stationcolours.info/london-midland-scottish-railway/
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    UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns

    Not to reopen the whole Gareth Dennis/Lord Hendy thing, but the irony is off the charts here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e742j01y1o
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    Abandoned Railways from Above,new C4 series.

    The last straw for me was when she pronounced "epitome" to rhyme with "home". Does nobody check these things anymore?
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    Why do some passengers not get how annoying it is to play music and videos out loud?

    Not necessarily - you could be re-watching videos you've taken yourself, for instance, and most streaming services have the option to download music so you can keep listening even without a signal.
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    Mystery garden on Borsesley Viaduct, Birmingham

    Looks like that is indeed it. @pdeaves has sent me a link to Crown Banqueting's website, which includes photos of the garden. This is the bit I can't quite fathom either. If access is from the gate then it's also across some pretty rough ground - hardly suitable for wedding shoes.
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    Mystery garden on Borsesley Viaduct, Birmingham

    Someone on the Birmingham subreddit has just spotted this mystery garden and has asked if anyone knows anything about it. Nobody else on there has any ideas, so I thought I'd try a more specialist crowd... It appears to be on railway land, atop the viaduct where the old abandoned Bordesley...
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    Heritage line punctuality

    A common feature of a lot of heritage railways does seem to be an excess of platform staff imperiously striding about in caps and waistcoats but not actually doing anything, while the sector at large complains about a lack of volunteers.
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    Northern issue DO NOT TRAVEL message (23/08)

    Large swathes of West Yorkshire seem to be suffering power cuts, presumably thanks to the same storm, and that can't be helping matters.
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    Cost of modelling

    I think this image neatly encapsulates the problem...
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    Really strange PIS pronunciations

    The announcements at Birmingham New Street used to pronounce Bournville with the stress on "ville". BournVILLE. Very odd.
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    Trivia - closed stations very close to open ones?

    Wolverhampton Low Level? The old station building is still in situ and visible from the platforms of the current (High Level) station.
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    Railway books you wish someone would write/publish

    I'd love to see Martin Bairstow-esque books covering the West Midlands in as much detail as he's covered the West Riding.
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    How many of our Heritage Railways are in trouble?

    My visit? It was last month.

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