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    SWR 10 Coach Train from Salisbury to Waterloo

    I'm not sure exactly when they started (my guess would be some time in the 2000s) but I believe they were a remnant of a previous service run by regional railways and later Wales & West which ran to various places beyond Bristol and into south Wales and beyond, which I believe started in the mid...
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    Disruption through Southampton (23/06)

    Ah that might have been it, I knew they did something with the signalling around Christmas. Indeed, it does seem not only a bad setup in general but also seems that it'd be quite easy for a potential enemy to do a lot of damage without even invading
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    Disruption through Southampton (23/06)

    Didn't they replace the signals back in December in this area? This incident might not be related but it seems like a coincidence
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    Cross Country cutting out Winchester, Basingstoke and other stops

    It seems odd that they plan to make Winchester set down/pick up and cut out Basingstoke given the connections at Basingstoke. Surely if they insist on doing this it'd have been better to do it the other way round and make Basingstoke pick up/set down and cut out Winchester
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    Isn't the reason that they're single 455s because double 455s can't work on certain routes, like Hounslow, because there's short platforms and 455s don't have SDO?
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    I can believe they'll be in service at some point. I saw one at New Milton the other day and it didn't just go straight through, it stopped for a bit before continuing as if it was on a test run rather than a standard ECS move
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    London overground station announcer change

    But so is £40m but it didn't stop them threatening to withdraw the travelcard. I bet the new worldline system is the cheapest (although still expensive) given how much technology has supposedly got better over the years yet atos/worldline sounds so much worse, much more robotic and rough
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    London overground station announcer change

    Amazing how TfL complain about lack of money yet they've got the money for this
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    Collision and derailment near Salisbury (Fisherton Tunnel) 31/10/21

    Genuine question, how is it possible to drive the same all year round and still keep to time when they put extra padding in the timetable from around October time specifically for leaf fall?
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    More Delay for HS2, and how should we proceed?

    If that happened there'd definitely be no point in HS2. I really can't see it being hugely popular not having a central London terminus as it is
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    £2 Price Cap on fares in England - Now extended beyond October 2023

    Morebus have announced they're staying with it https://www.morebus.co.uk/great-news-ps2-fare-continues-all-summer-long
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    Customer information during person under train incidents

    Strongly disagree, by hiding it your just shutting down talking about it and making it more "taboo" and potentially making the problem worse. Completely agree, just tell the truth. People will find out anyway and it just gets people's backs up if they feel they're not being told the truth
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway: progress updates

    I can't see that being a particularly good idea. Even if the DfT agree (which I very much doubt given their penny pinching attitude at the moment) it'd still take years for the new trains to arrive from Siemens, and let's not forget, whilst not as bad as this, the Siemens 707s weren't exactly on...
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    Grubbiest or most dilapidated station on the network in 2023

    In the same area, unless it's been massively improved over the last few years, I'd say Stapleton Road. When I went there once it felt very dirty and run down and didn't really feel like the place you'd want to be at night
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    Unannounced selective door opening at Clapham Junction?

    @AlterEgo has just mentioned the likely reason why SDO wasn't announced. As to your more general point about SDO at CLJ, it's a regular occurrence there on "main line" SWR services. It's the front 9 if a 12-450 and front 8 if 10-444. As to it being terminated at Eastleigh, it looks like its a...
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    Trivia: Creation of Dead-End Branches Through Closing of Through Lines

    Slightly after Beeching but there is the Alton line. Formerly an "ox-bow line" off the South Western Main line, rejoining at Winchester, the line was cut back to Alton although the watercress heritage railway has taken over part of the section between Alton and Winchester
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    Vivarail to enter administration

    Apart from the new traction equipment, isn't the bare minimum effectively what they did? I'm sure the basic interior refresh and conversion to 3rd rail (from 4th rail) would have needed doing if they were going to the island whoever did it
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    SWR being not very ‘south west’: your thoughts?

    I believe the SWR name and SWT before it came from the fact that it was largely the former South Western Division of Network SouthEast
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    Buffet trolleys - time they started taking cash again.

    I agree I agree. That's what I was getting at earlier, people supporting a cashless society is pretty much the same as a turkey supporting Christmas
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    Buffet trolleys - time they started taking cash again.

    And everyone allowing this two tier society is guilty of allowing governments and big businesses to control them

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