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  1. Senex

    openrailwaymap navigation

    Is there any way of going to a specific location on openrailwaymap by inserting co-ordinates as one can on openstreetmap? (And the reverse too. If I right-click in openstreetmap I can get the co-ordinates for the location I'm clicking on, but there seems to be no equivalent in openrailwaymap.)
  2. Senex

    Parliamentary language

    There are conventions in parliament about the language members may use to speak of other members. These come from a past time when members were all supposed to be honourable gentlemen (no ladies then!), but they continue to be enforced in this very different age when politics has become just...
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    SŽ (Czech) electrification : lineside signs

    On the line from Dresden to Prague the German 15 kV AC system meets the Czech 3 kV DC system just south of Schöna, on a bridge at 11.86 km. In this direction there seem to be three signals for the driver about the change of systems, two on the German side of the border and two on the Czech side...
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    Bilsdale transmitter fire

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-58208326 I wonder how many of us here are affected by last Tuesday's serious fire at the Bilsdale transmitter and how surprised people are by the apparent lack of very much news coverage of the event and its aftermath. The "reception" page of the BBC's...
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    The Nicola and Alex Show

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-scotland-56251990 The BBC seems to be having a field-day with current goings-on in Edinburgh, with a lot of time devoted to it all, quite probing interviews, some good background stuff. So why does it shew us that it can do a good searching job in Scotland...
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    Advice sought on monitors/VDUs

    For a good few years my desktop monitor has been a 22" unit with a 1680 x 1050 display. For many purposes it's still fine, but increasingly I'm finding things where it doesn't give me enough screen territory, particularly like editing Word documents when I want two documents open side by side to...
  7. Senex

    Bradshaw's timetables

    Does anyone here happen to know if Manchester City Library still holds the Bradshaw & Blacklock company archive, including a pretty complete run of the timetables? Some forty years ago I referred to these in the Central Library (St Peter's Square) and found it a much pleasanter way of accessing...
  8. Senex

    Firefox 79 and Open Street Map

    Does anyone else here use Firefox 79 as their main browser, and if so, do they experience any problems when trying to use Open Street Map? On my machine the tiles of large areas of the map simply don't render, making it useless. It's not the classic Firefox lack of memory (I've got 16GB RAM and...
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    Manchester Victoria zero milepost

    Does anyone know whether the L&Y's zero milepost at Victoria, now alas no longer to be seen, stood at the point where the lines of the two original companies (L&M and M&L) met each other opposite the mid-point of the original main station building or at the later point of junction where the...
  10. Senex

    Station usage statistics pre-1997?

    I'm not sure if this is the right place for this query — if not, could Admin move it to the proper location, please? The figures for passenger usage of the various stations from 1997 onwards are readily available on line. But does anyone know if any similar figures for earlier years are to be...
  11. Senex

    Timetabling and regulation policy of EMR and Thameslink services in the current timetable

    Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mml-electrification.110445/ Oh dear! Will keeping West Hampstead mean that long-distance services continue routinely to shudder to a stand to let Thameslink units make a fast/slow crossing, or spend miles at a reduced speed for the...
  12. Senex

    Liverpool & Manchester : Patricroft

    Does anyone know the reason for the severe kink in the line at the west end of Patricroft station, and whether this is the reason why the speed-limit remains 75 right the way through from Astley to Ordsall Lane and why the 60 at Astley was never raised (remember the announcements of 75 all the...
  13. Senex

    Shamima Begum

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47312026/shamima-begum-uk-unjust-to-remove-citizenship This woman is reported on the BBC PM programme this afternoon as being surprised that the Home Secretary has not talked to her before taking decisions about her and surprised at the lack of sympathy he has...
  14. Senex

    Realtime Trains

    Is it possible to use Realtime Trains to get a list of all passenger trains from A to B within a specified time-window? I'm trying to get such a list for trains from Durham to York tomorrow afternoon. If I insert Durham as "Location" and York in "Calling at?", I get a list of northbound trains...
  15. Senex

    Who runs the railways?

    Grayling on the BBC R4 "Today" programme at about 8:23: "Actually, no — I don't run the railways". So, given the degree of prescription and interference by the DfT that we all know about, who does run the railways if he doesn't?
  16. Senex

    Limits of capacity?

    In the franchising process the DfT lays down the sort of timetable it expects bidders to bid for, and ove the years this has involved getting more and more trains on to an infrastructure that has seen minimal provision of additional facilities. Debate in these forums has shewn very clearly how...
  17. Senex

    Collective responsibility?

    Boris Johnson strongly criticises in public a policy still under discussion in cabinet. The prime minster's spokesman declares that she has full confidence in him. Does this mean that cabinet collectve responsibility is finally utterly broken, or does it just shew that May is a prime minister...
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    TSB woes

    Is anyone caught up in TSB's IT "upgrade" problems? You'd have thought that by now there would have been enough learnt from the IT disasters other banks have had for TSB to have got it right, or at least to have set aside enough time to be able to work through any problems instead of telling...
  19. Senex

    Stalybridge mileposts

    In a 1914 book of Gradient Tables of the LNWR that I have gradients and distances of all the company's lines are listed to the nearest one-sixteenth of a mile and the starting-points of the sequences are given, in some cases from a station but in most from the appropriate junction (as, for...
  20. Senex

    North v. south investment (from MML thread)

    Senex said: ↑ And the 185s have been totally inadequate for the job from the day they appeared since London-DfT didn't allow four vehicles per unit to be ordered at the start and then wouldn't allow later construction of the additional vehicles. And on significant parts of the TP network they...

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