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Ah yes of course. Now you mention it I can see one in the yard on google maps.
Do the containers go there for local distribution by road? Is there any outgoing load when the train leaves?
Here in Brussels you generally have to pay madame pipi in the bigger stations. Always a good idea to carry some cash. Buy a beer somewhere and use their toilets (although that possibly causes a self repeating problem). My local cafe charges 1 euro if you want to use the loo. Interestingly old...
From the title of the thread I guessed this was about trains taking on water. Can that be done anywhere? Or just in the depot. I'm sure I've seen small tanker trailers on a platform somewhere.
There was a thread about train noise and distance. In summer with the windows open I could hear 37s going up Stormy bank with steel trains as a kid. A good 4 miles away.
Eurostar put on special trains for the "Tomorrowland" festival in Belgium. As far as I could make out sitting in St Pancras this was for flights into Heathrow. The place was full of young Americans and Japanese.
Did Ashford to Brighton once after getting off a late EuroStar. Very grim. Someone threw a bag of chips at us. The first impression of the UK for my French other half.
I was in Latvia a few years ago. Signs everywhere in the stations warning not to walk on the tracks. I thought it was overkill but then on our train journey there were people walking everywhere. Along and over the tracks. When we reached our destination near the beach huge crowds got off with...
One of the 1940s films with Charters and Caldicott has them buying newspapers and drinks through the window of their compartment from a seller on the platform. York I think.
Reminds me of this :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_Airlines_Flight_706
"About seventy minutes into the flight, the crew made a request to the Lorient approach controller to deviate from their route slightly to the west to Quiberon Bay.[1] The reason for this detour was to give the...