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CRU is the 3 letter designation of Falls of Cruachan station. Confusing that it is also being used for Craignure.

Thanks everyone for the replies. suspect that DC motors may not be being overhauled as the plan is to replace them but they are failing faster than they are being replaced

So they are not able to use any serviceable DC motors that come off trains being converted to AC motors or are there just not enough being replaced?

I assume it is the DC motors that are failing so with 5 trains at Acton being converted to AC motors I would expect that there should be 5 trains worth of DC motors available for use as spares at any one time? Or am I missing something. Confused..

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I am confused by the TFL website. My 12 year old granddaughter is travelling with her parents Wembley Park to South Kensington return off peak soon. A zip oyster is £15 which would give free travel but is expensive. Cash is £3.30 Adult contactless is £3.20 For simplicity, registering...

Saw London sleeper leave Newcastle empty? At about 10:30

Is my memory playing tricks? Was there not a suggestion of switching the freight lines from west side to eat side happening north of Leicester? The main lines to use the east side island platform at Leicester and the slows using the west side island.

Can someone please explain why having both AC and DC together at Basingstoke is a problem please? I see both at the same platform at Ashford Kent with trains switching systems there.

Announcing the start of the process to refurbish the 360’s would have been worth the fuss, not just a mascot

And Labour cancelled the channel tunnel…

Kings Cross Thameslink platforms retained for emergecies

Wimbledon to West Croydon. Converted to tram

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway at Wirksworth have.