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  1. SWTCommuter

    Trivia: Quay side/ Harbour stations/ terminuses

    Burnham-on-Sea. A track led from the station on to a stone jetty. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17.0&lat=51.23423&lon=-3.00021&layers=168&b=1 The station closed in 1951 but the remains of the jetty still exist Google streetview
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    Have any London - Bournemouth trains ever completely bypassed Southampton?

    Back in the early 1980s, I travelled to Waterloo on a service diverted via Laverstock and Andover while work was being carried out on Southampton Tunnel. I got on at Romsey so can't say for sure if it reversed at Southampton or Redbridge. There were posters at Romsey station promoting the fact...
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    BR Summer Route Planning in the early 1960's

    Is this the one you are thinking of? British Transport Films: Train Time (1952). BFI The planning meeting is at around the 16 minute mark
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    YouTube Railway program list

    1976: Meet the Commuters | Nationwide | BBC Archive Bernard Falk investigates a modern social phenomenon, commuting. What inspires hundreds of thousands of people to spend up to four hours a day commuting to work in London? How do they pass all that time spent cooped up inside crowded train...
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    Trivia: Train Services that run wholly within the same Council area

    I don't think so as Southampton and Portsmouth are separate unitary authorities and the train passes through Hampshire County Council area between them. It also passes through Fareham and Eastleigh district council areas.
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    Fantasy tunnelling suggestions

    How about creating a Solent Circle line? Reopen Totton to Fawley Tunnel Fawley to Cowes Rebuild Cowes - Newport - Sandown Tunnel Ryde to Portsmouth.
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    Glastonbury festival in BR days.

    FWIW, it is the same film but the version I linked to was divided into three parts. Parts two and three are here www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsIIZlH0Rw www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBE2fR0z3CI I think the only difference is that they are in the correct aspect ratio whereas the single-part version is...
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    Glastonbury festival in BR days.

    West Pennard station on the Burnham & Evercreech branch of the Somerset and Dorset was about 1.5 miles from Worthy Farm as the crow flies. Briefly glimpsed in this film at 3:34
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    Rail strikes discussion

    The US air traffic controllers probably thought something similar when they went on strike in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)
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    Trivia: Examples of avoiding lines used by (in service) passenger trains to bypass a major station...

    Does Weston-super-Mare count or is it just on a loop off the main line?
  11. SWTCommuter

    Trivia: Split-level stations on the National Rail network

    Historically, Pilning High Level and Pilning Low Level (for Severn Beach trains)
  12. SWTCommuter

    Trivia: cathedrals, abbeys and castles which can be seen from trains

    Kirkham Priory from the York to Scarborough line. Pause the video at 30:29 at Kirkham Abbey Level Crossing and the priory ruins are visible on the left Newport Castle is visible from the bridge across the River Usk near the station. Portchester Castle. Tewkesbury Abbey near Ashchurch. Totnes...
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    YouTube Railway program list

    WW2 vintage German locomotives still operating in Bosnia
  14. SWTCommuter

    Can you still buy paper street maps?

    That ISBN (978-1-84907-387-5) does apply to the most recent version of the Philip's atlas. The ISBN of the first impression of the 2009 edition was 978-1-84907-016-4 (spiral). Here are the details from the 2015 title page: Fourth colour edition 2009 Second impression with revisions 2015 GLWDB...
  15. SWTCommuter

    What train is this picture from?

    It's a stock photo from Getty Images photo library. The details give the location as France, which would tally with suggestions that it is an SNCF train. Getty Images: children eating a tart raspberry on the train DETAILS Credit:Photo and Co Creative #:543297089 Licence type:Royalty-free...
  16. SWTCommuter

    Modified Hall - Wightwick Hall 6989

    Alamy picture library has a few photos available Wightwick Hall on Alamy
  17. SWTCommuter

    Trains without tracks

    The land trains on Weston-super-Mare seafront appear to be tractor based Trains of BRUTE trolleys (or similar) towed by electric tractors used to be a common sight on stations
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    Trivia : Roads/or station approaches running parallel with the railway

    The A4 Keynsham Bypass alongside the GWML west of Keynsham station. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4196545,-2.5008617,3a,75y,344.46h,95.55t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sQjTN3I66M_XpyS2q6IYwHQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i38 The M27 alongside the Southampton-Portsmouth line near Swanwick...

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