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  1. TheSeeker

    Freight Train Derailment - Barry Docks (01/11)

    Ah yes of course. Now you mention it I can see one in the yard on google maps. Do the containers go there for local distribution by road? Is there any outgoing load when the train leaves?
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    Freight Train Derailment - Barry Docks (01/11)

    Just out of interest. What they do with the containers once the train arrives? I can't see any crane equipment. Wentloog isn't far away either.
  3. TheSeeker

    e-Scooters on Trains

    Snapped this on a tram in Brussels a couple of weeks ago.
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    50P to use the toilets at Glasgow Queen Street

    Here in Brussels you generally have to pay madame pipi in the bigger stations. Always a good idea to carry some cash. Buy a beer somewhere and use their toilets (although that possibly causes a self repeating problem). My local cafe charges 1 euro if you want to use the loo. Interestingly old...
  5. TheSeeker

    Stations with water refill points

    From the title of the thread I guessed this was about trains taking on water. Can that be done anywhere? Or just in the depot. I'm sure I've seen small tanker trailers on a platform somewhere.
  6. TheSeeker

    Longest platform

    Waterloo International?
  7. TheSeeker

    A HST to be used in Mexico?

    I wonder how maintainance, spare parts, wheel turning and all the day to day problems will be dealt with. Driver training springs to mind.
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    Noisy tractor (Class 37)

    There was a thread about train noise and distance. In summer with the windows open I could hear 37s going up Stormy bank with steel trains as a kid. A good 4 miles away.
  9. TheSeeker

    Castle Cary speed restriction for Glastonbury?

    Eurostar put on special trains for the "Tomorrowland" festival in Belgium. As far as I could make out sitting in St Pancras this was for flights into Heathrow. The place was full of young Americans and Japanese.
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    Worst Railway Journeys in the UK

    Did Ashford to Brighton once after getting off a late EuroStar. Very grim. Someone threw a bag of chips at us. The first impression of the UK for my French other half.
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    Trespassing on the tracks: what are the rules, and what were the rules?

    I was in Latvia a few years ago. Signs everywhere in the stations warning not to walk on the tracks. I thought it was overkill but then on our train journey there were people walking everywhere. Along and over the tracks. When we reached our destination near the beach huge crowds got off with...
  12. TheSeeker

    What would happen if someone illicitly sold refreshments on board a train?

    Didn't Portillio do something like this? Or maybe it was an indian restaurant at one of the stations on the line.
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    What would happen if someone illicitly sold refreshments on board a train?

    One of the 1940s films with Charters and Caldicott has them buying newspapers and drinks through the window of their compartment from a seller on the platform. York I think.
  14. TheSeeker

    Pilot circles plane to show passengers northern lights

    Reminds me of this :- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_Airlines_Flight_706 "About seventy minutes into the flight, the crew made a request to the Lorient approach controller to deviate from their route slightly to the west to Quiberon Bay.[1] The reason for this detour was to give the...
  15. TheSeeker

    Rail strikes - Not the current ones - mid 1950s

    There's a great radio episode of "Hancocks Half Hour" concerning the rail strikes of this period. It's on you tube.
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    South Wales 'Metro' updates

    The alignment from Cardiff Bay station to the new Pierhead seems to be down Docks Lane. Was that the previous route? How will they get through that big building on the corner of Bute Street and Hemingway Road?
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    Victoria Escalators wasting electricity ?.

    Over here they are mostly from ThyssenKrupp (Not OTIS of Reading). They stop if there's no traffic but as soon as you put a foot on the initial plate they start running. Pressure detector I would guess.
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    Victoria Escalators wasting electricity ?.

    Wasn't there an anti-capitalist protest at Canary Wharf some years ago. I remember footage of the building security guards setting the entrance escalators to go down. Carnage ensued.
  19. TheSeeker

    Victoria Escalators wasting electricity ?.

    There's a bi-directional escalator at my local Metro station in Brussels. You press a button, a siren sounds. It stops and then starts going in the other direction.
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    Americanisms in UK English

    A friend from Northern Ireland says "carry out" from the days when you could take beer home from the pub. He said that army checkpoints always let you through with no problems if you were carrying beer.

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