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    Virgin Trains Ramsgate Service Stopping Pattern

    Probably not by class 47 all the way -- VXC trains on the WCML at that time were (unless HSTs) normally hauled by class 86s north of Birmingham (if running direct) or Preston (if via Manchaster). The 1S76 site also mentions class 86s north of Preston; but a class 47 sounds plausible for any...
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    Stena Line from Liverpool to Belfast

    You certainly don't have to book a cabin, as seats can be booked in the Hygge Lounge or the Stena Plus lounge. On some overnight ferry routes, you have to book at least a basic reclining seat, but I think you may not even have to do that on this route. Cabins are cheaper than you might expect...
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    Storm Isha may affect your journey in parts of England, Scotland and Wales on Sunday 21 and Monday 22 January

    In case anyone is interested, what appears to have happened on the West Highland, according to Realtime Trains, is as follows: Northbound 12.12 Fort William-Mallaig ran throughout and arrived 9 min late. 09.56 Glasgow-Oban ran throughout and arrived 23 min late. 12.20 Glasgow-Oban/Mallaig...
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    England-Oslo-Copenhagen -England by train and ferry, any better/more interesting routes?

    The Oslo-Copenhagen ferry is an interesting journey, with a scenic cruise down the Oslofjord at one end and into the Øresund past Elsinore Castle at the other. (Although my recollection from October 2019 is that there was plenty of outside deck space but not that many seats -- maybe there are...
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    LNER closing unresolved Delay Repay because of their own office delays

    I had something similar a few months ago, but the claim was in fact paid before I'd got round to doing anything about it. In a bit more detail, I put in 3 claims because there were 3 of us travelling, and you had to make a separate claim for each ticket (despite them having been booked together...
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    Polish suggestions

    You can book the boat in both directions if you like, rather than returning by coach, although I seem to remember having to do it as two separate bookings. I saw the waterwheels by doing a land-based trip the day before -- I got the train to Pasłęk, from where it was a bit more than an hour's...
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    Wolsztyn Steam Services

    A bit of a tangent, but in case anyone else is wondering what 'sewage canal' is about: The phrase in Polish is 'na kanale oczystkowym', which Google translates rather more poetically as 'on the purification canal'. In my (limited) understanding, 'kanal' can mean both 'channel' and a variety of...
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    Does time go by faster the more you age?

    I think things from before you were born do seem more remote (although I feel that if it was shortly before I was born it can't be that long ago, which is all the more reason why it seems strange that the end of steam was so close to my lifetime). But for railway enthusiasts born around 1970...
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    Most exotic licence plate personally spotted on UK road

    I saw a car with a Quebec plate in Cambridge in about 1990, but it was just a glimpse in passing traffic, so I don't think I was sure (and I'm certainly not sure now) whether it was a real Quebec-registered car or just a UK one with a Quebec plate added as an ornament. I think Ukraine is the...
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    Solum regeneration of Surbiton Station area

    Thankyou. I was thinking of Wellington Court, round the corner in the part of Glenbuck Road nearer the station. Saxon Close is on the site of the old British Road Services depot (latterly Roadline, and then briefly used as a warehouse before it burnt down in about 1982). Comparison of the old...
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    Major landslip near Ventnor, Isle of Wight - 10/12/23

    There's a brief aerial video here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-67681796.
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    Trivia : Popular tube journeys requiring a change

    Those not at all in the know will probably just see Paddington on the map and be surprised not to arrive near the main concourse, but as you say, the next time they may choose to change at Edgware Road.
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    Solum regeneration of Surbiton Station area

    Thankyou. (I've probably been inside there before, but not for many years).
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    Have any London - Bournemouth trains ever completely bypassed Southampton?

    I have a vague impression (from seeing engineering work posters and being on XC trains which were due to be diverted after I'd disembarked) that diverting via the Laverstock loop is not uncommon for XC. The one time that I know for sure that it happened (as I went that way, on one of my last...
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    Cancelled ticket, then fined

    My assumption is that they intended to do this while changing trains at Piccadilly. Buying tickets as you go along like this isn't unreasonable or suspicious -- I've done it sometimes when splitting at a place where I had plenty of time to change trains -- but it does have the risk that in the...
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    Solum regeneration of Surbiton Station area

    Yes, I thought that. I'd guess there's maybe some kind of rule about consulting all Engllish TOCs before selling off railway land. If that's the block of flats I'm thinking of, my recollection is that it was built probably a little over 40 years ago (45, maybe) on the site of what I presume (my...
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    Solum regeneration of Surbiton Station area

    I Googled 'Surbiton station consultation' and found this document: https://www.orr.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-02/surbiton-station-car-park-land-disposal-consultation-report.pdf. It appears to be a report of an earlier consultation in 2021, mostly within the railway industry but including...
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    Pacer route list

    I think Swindon must be the nearest to London they got on regular workings -- 77 1/4 miles, which is the equivalent of only just past Peterborough on the ECML.
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    Pacer route list

    Was that always the case? My recollection is that the first time I ever saw a Pacer (or at least the first time close to) was at Shrewsbury in summer 1986. I can't remember whether it was in service, or if so where it was going.
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    Large size Intercity rail tickets

    I think SailRail tickets across the Irish Sea, if bought from the ferry company rather than the railway, are still like that (albeit with a single coupon for the whole journey). Certainly they were a few years ago when I last bought one that way. (The origin and destination are written in by...

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