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    Thames-Clyde Express in the 1970's

    This was long the practice with the overnights, so providing a sleeper service from both Nottingham and Derby. This was probably true even pre-electric haulage via the Caledonian route - depending on the particular timetable in force at the time - but possibly even in steam days. It is a...
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    Which single-span footbridge crosses the most tracks?

    Almost certainly not the winner, but the footbridge at Faversham, which crosses the main lines and the former shed throat, used to appear mighty to a nipper in short trousers.
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    Rail Preservation for Peace - did it work in Ireland?

    Well, thanks - that rather backs up my point. Whitehead is the HQ of NI Railways, is it? (HAdn't realised that. We did go back to Whitehead to photograph the last weekend of the steam-hauled soil trains a few weeks later. Having said terrorist activity was minimal, I had a narrow escape on...
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    Issuing Fine Underhand Tactics

    Well, it darned well ought to be a huge surprise! Companies these days are forever stressing their ESG credentials. I'm sure a mere scan of the company's website will reveal boasts of its intentions of serving customers and making them satisfied with their journies, blah PR blah blah. And if...
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    "Be prepared to vacate the seat or purchase a first class ticket"

    Your opinion. If the OP has correctly reported the facts, I find it an absolutely valid thread. It is a TOC completely giving a misleading and confusing message.
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    Rail Preservation for Peace - did it work in Ireland?

    Cooking my mushrooms for lunch just now, I was pondering a trip I made to Ulster long ago, and I suddenly realised it was almost exactly 54 years to the day when this occured. A small gang of us met up in Belfast to chase a Railway Preservation Society of Ireland special for a day, possibly two...
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    Royal Photo Controversy

    Oh, I fully agree. Now, how is the education budget doing?
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    "Be prepared to vacate the seat or purchase a first class ticket"

    Add another one to your minority. I agree 100%.
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    The early years of Class 56s and Construction

    There are certainly some serious mountains north of Craiova, and the "trunk" roads of Romania (no such thing as motorways in the 70s) were notorious for being in poor condition.
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    Royal Photo Controversy

    Incorrect. The public, by and large, love celebrity gossip. The media, by and large, then follow. It's a continual 'dumbing down' spiral. (Apoligies, I detest the expression 'dumbing down' - it's an insult to dumb people - but it's the easiest term to use.) And if the Sun or Mail had put "MP...
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    Why don't East Midlands Trains stop at St Albans?

    As others have argued, given the pathing issues and traffic demands at St Albans, there is no way that inserting a stop there could be justified - the Thameslink service is more than adequate for the majority of passenger demands. Indeed, it should, and probably would, cause an outcry from...
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    The early years of Class 56s and Construction

    When the news came out that 30 of these new locos were going to be built in Romania, everyone on the railway in Derby from the ticket collectors at the station to the tea ladies in Nelson Street knew this was a bonkers idea. My boss even drew up plans to combine two class 40s in some sort of...
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    Competition to name one of the Class 150s on the Marston Vale Line announced

    To be honest, I think naming anything other than "proper locomotives" is a bit weird and weak, but I suppose there aren't enough of those these days.
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    Liverpool Street - Norwich via Cambridge

    Did these also serve Breckland line stations? If not, what was the point of going-coming in and out of Norwich? But if yes, they must have been pretty slow, what with all the stops south of Cambridge.
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    Competition to name one of the Class 150s on the Marston Vale Line announced

    This might result in the "West Country" effect - or perhaps, better put, the "Reverse West Country" effect. Not sure of your age or knowledge of steam traction - there was a class of passenger locos on the Southern named after West Country locations. It is said people got on the wrong trains at...
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    Competition to name one of the Class 150s on the Marston Vale Line announced

    Although not born in Bedford, John Howard is a largely forgotten, but great figure associated with the town/area. (Lived in Cardington.) Having said that, I was talking to a Dutch diplomat last year, and mentioned him. She replied: "I did my Masters on the history of prison reform, so I do...
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    London to Leeds routing

    Good grief - you are correct. I have stood on the bridge to the north of the old Sharnbrook station (after it had closed) and passed through those stations (to the north) a hundred times in the early 70s, and somehow convinced myself that there were platforms on the goods lines. Thanks for...
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    Post World War 2 - peoples views of Germany?

    As several others in this thread have tried to point out to you (rather well, in one way or another) it's easy to say nobody should blame any race for the atrocities inflicted on one's own by their leaders. But until you have had some thugs in state pay drag your wife off to a gas chamber, or...
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    London to Leeds routing

    Despite the few odd trains from St Pancras after 1962, as I wrote up thread, the KX route was absolutely the 'main line' by then, and I suspect even before that. By the winter timetable of 62, while you could still go via the Midland, the trains that went that way were really there to serve the...
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    Post World War 2 - peoples views of Germany?

    An interesting thesis, but it begs certain questions. But before I continue, let me say that I have fond memories of visits to Germany in the 1970s and 80s. I have (at least concsiously) nothing but good memories of many kindly experiences with German people. But, were the bad things done by...

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