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    Passport Rules

    It should be noted this isn't a Brexit thing with the EU "punishing" the UK - it's the same rules they apply to all non-EU nationals.
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    Collision of cargo ship with, and collapse of, Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore (26/03)

    Latest reports say they had a couple of minutes warning, and the bridge was closed to traffic as a precaution because of the uncontrolled boat in the harbour, not just when it seemed certain to hit the bridge. Sounds like a well thought out procedure that has worked smoothly when it was needed.
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    East Mids Area Rail Capacity

    It's the 80x that are non-standard. St Pancras was rebuilt with the standard platform length to allow 10x23m or 12x20m carriages. Until the arrival of the 80x's, there were no 26m carriages on the network, allowing for 10x26m would have been seen as wasting space and money. A standard 9x26m 80x...
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    Is a grand coalition the way forward now?

    It was badly managed by Clegg, with little care of the consequences. Take the student fees issue for example. Long been a core part of their campaign, many of their MPs had made it one of their priorities. Suddenly because of the coalition that position not only had to be dropped, but...
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    WCML blockade - impact on EMR services? (29/03 - 01/04)

    MML normally gets swamped when the WCML is closed. Expect the normal St Pancras carnage.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    It won't on any noticeable scale, but I suspect we'll soon see just how large the "silent majority" actually are. Reform have the same problem as UKIP before them - enough support to count on the polls, but nowhere near enough to actually get to a majority in an individual seat. While it's easy...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Looks like the events of the last week or so have made an impact on the polls, with Redfield Wilton reporting: LAB 47% (+5) CON 21% (-3) REF 14% (-) LDEM 8% (-4) GRN 6% (+1) Sticking those numbers into Electoral Calculus gives seats of: LAB 534 (+337) LDEM 41 (+33) CON 34 (-342) SNP 18 (-30)...
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    Collecting footage for YouTube

    Definitely no tripods, no extra lighting and no flash. All of those are even banned for professional users who've paid the fees, done all the risk assessments and got the permits when the location is open to the public. And don't be too discreet - if staff spot you, but you hide or run off...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    The right wing of the party have fallen into the trap (again) of thinking the reason they're doing so badly in the polls is solely because people don't like Sunak. If they read below the headlines from the polling companies, they'd see the other questions and the responses that show the public...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Labour was in as much of a mess about what it wanted as the Tories at that point.
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    Knaresborough to York

    It's not a fine - that's the cost of a anytime single between Knaresborough and Cattal - they appear to have accepted your explanation and are only asking for the fare that is outstanding for the portion of your journey you did not have a ticket for. Compared to some of the stories on here, you...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    With another poll predicting a Labour landslide out today (LAB 46%, CON 18%, REF 13%, LDEM 10%) resulting in a prediction of the Tories getting only 25 seats, they may be worrying more about whether they even have enough MP's to form a shadow cabinet than if there's enough high quality options.
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    How many National Rail stations don't have gatelines? (estimates welcome)

    More likely because of the pleas from the DFT, who made it a franchise requirement of EMT (yes, trains, not railway) to gate all their stations.
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    GB News

    If it's the incident I believe you are referring to, then correct, those statements were not a breach of the broadcasting code.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I bet it we had a referendum on that, it would pass. Definitely no down sides if it's the will of the people.
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    Single Justice Procedure Notice from Chiltern Railways

    As Hall Green is regularly mentioned on these pages as a donutting / short faring origin hotspot, I would imagine Chiltern and the original inspector are reading a lot more into the possible situation here. I expect it's very rare for them to find someone with an address actually local to the...
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    GB News

    He's already well on the path to obscurity - he used to be the entertainment reporter for ITV mornings, popping up nearly every day with the latest salacious gossip from Hollywood. It was only after he got caught up in that thing with Caroline Flack killing herself, with him in particular...
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    GB News

    When the broadcasters involved actually start abiding by the Broadcasting Code. If they don't agree with the code, then they should lobby Parliament to change it - not keep complaining that they're getting told off for not following the rules that everyone else has to. With regards to the...
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    Derailment between Hersham & Walton on Thames (04/03)

    You're comparing the ability to get the odd planned train to a random location on the network to changing a entire routes in the immediate aftermath of an incident. Even ignoring all the capacity constraints that exist today, those are two different levels of proposition.
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    Should timetables allow for easier recovery from disruption?

    How many routes in the UK operate at such a frequency though? And how many routes have sufficient extra capacity to just absorb the passengers from a cancelled service and remain running to time?

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