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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    You can do that from the platform even if there is somebody sitting by it. If the seat is bookable, book earlier; if it isn't, then it is available for any passenger to sit in.
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    Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you

    It's only you being denied because you didn't get the right seat. ;)
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    The US built the Verruzzana Narrows bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island, opened in 1964. The problem with the Tacoma Narrows bridge was the lack of stiffness in the deck allowing standing waves to be built up under certain wind conditions. The Golden Gate bridge (and the Verruzzana Narrows...
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    Natural phenomenon you have witnessed?

    Well given that the sun radiates IR which at ground level perpendicular to it equates to nearly 700W/m^2, that dropping to about 1/10th of that would be felt very quickly.
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    The bridge carried the main i695 interstate (a link in the main i95 Eastern Seaboard route from the border with Canada to Miami) as the most eastern crossing over the Patapsco river.
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    This talk of what can be acheived by a determined passenger on a train with sliding doors is largely a strawman argument. Unprotected slam doors are not only a hazard to passengers who when leaning against them may fall out, also having opened they are a significant danger to persons standing on...
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    EMR Class 360's

    It's been said here many times that the tunnel between Mortimer St. junction and Junction Road junction has very limited clearance and providing sufficient room for OLE of any kind would be very costly.
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    Trivia - RT3187 Traksy Code?

    Slightly different because these days, patients have a right to know what their medical records mean, but rail passengers do not have any absolute or even inferred right to see data codes that are part of the internal workings of the railway.
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    Princess of Wales has cancer

    Most private schools break up a week before the state ones. It allows them the book their holidays in a cheaper week.
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    EMR Class 360's

    Where will the class 810s (when they arrive) be maintained?
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    Princess of Wales has cancer

    Almost certainly not. Cancer has been around for millenia, as @dangie says, anybody can get it. It's only with shorter lives terminated by other causes that probably reduce its apparent occurence. I'm not an avid royal follower, but it has been enlightening to see other members of the family...
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    Haymarket to Dalmeny electrification

    I agree. So many times, the cost of electrification (specifically by OLE) is presumed prohibitive because of 100+ year old infrastructure that has been carrying way more than it's designers ever envisaged needing replacement, when if no electrificartion was to be undertaken, the infrastructure...
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    So many announcements, so few people taking them on board

    You speak only for yourself. We are free to differ.
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    Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

    And as Johnson became the Uxbridge MP whilst he was still Mayor, so can anybody else.
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    I've moved on from this point now but will point out for your benefit: Coaches and hotel bookings (that you cannot tell the difference from) are for a service with a limited capacity, just like planes and most ship jopurneys. With fare stage buses and most rail journeys in the UK, capacity is...
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    Your examples of coach and hotel bookings are nothing like ticketing on fare stage buses or rail tickets, except advances. However, back on topic, I am not averse to Aztec coded tickets, provide all parts of the railway are equipped to use them, as I've said so many times before, there should...
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    2024 Tube Stock (Siemens Inspiro)

    Not necessarily, the additional cost for slightly raised power would be a small proportion of the whole cost - a benefit would be potentially greater reliability, sufficient performance to sustain services during a single or even multiple drive chain failures, and longer life between...
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    If there is no online validation, a duplicate can be used so that two people can travel as long as they aren't seen by the same inspector. I don't think there's a need to have names on tickets, it's not like the requirement for an aircraft manifest. I'm not paranoid about organisations having...
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    So many announcements, so few people taking them on board

    It wouldn't deter me, so that statement on behalf of everybody isn't true. You really shouldn't go around presuming that everybody has the same issues as you.
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    E-Tickets on dead phones - a possible solution?

    The ongoing discussion is distorted by the fact that a) most here (at a guess) aren't arguing that CCSTs should be here forever and b) that 'e tickets' require a passenger to be equipped with a working smartphone at all times when travelling. Neither is true: a) 'paper tickets' does not...

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