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    Could driverless cars replace railways?

    Not that long ago, I remember reading a thread on this forum asking where we all think Britain's railways will be in 50 years; the replies were almost uniformly positive, mostly predicting that patronage will have risen and that several closed lines will have re-opened, both of which sound like...
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    Why didn't they do a HST2?

    Back in the early '00s, when the TOCs/Govt first started buying the replacements for HSTs (ie. Pendolinos and Voyagers onto the WCML, Meridians onto the MML), why did they commission all-new designs? Instead of all that expense, why wasn't a "HST2" programme considered? they could have...
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    Did British Rail ever do ticket wallets?

    Sorry to dredge up the old ticket wallets topic again (I did a few searches but unfortunately the results were swamped with unrelated stuff) but I'd like to know if British Rail ever produced any of their own ticket wallets like the TOCs now do? I'm not normally the collecting type, but I'd...
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    My train was about 1hor late yesterday - is there any way to see exactly how late?

    Hey guys, first time poster here, but I've been lurking for a fair few months now. I've got a question to ask. Yesterday (Sunday the 13th of February 2011) I made a journey from Birmingham New Street to Bristol Temple Meads on a CrossCountry HST (I've never seen an XC HST before, I thought they...

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