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    On the path to a local beauty spot...
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    Crawley?
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    I was reminded yesterday of the Mission: Impossible Series 1 episode 'The Train' in which thinly disguised Union Pacific F4A(?), Switchers and coaches were used...
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    Sometimes the starts are less-than-smooth. Even a small jolt can put one off balance, with possible serious results...
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    J7363 - One of the SEGs 4COR power cars on the right...
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    Five Darwin Award candidates (and a dog) at Revelstoke. The normal wait for crew change is approx. 5 minutes but these id people don't consider that the relief crew might be a bit snappier than others...
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    Somewhere in Derbyshire... The road concerned has a very steep hill, is very narrow and there are no passing places. I would imagine the incidence of stuck HGVs was high enough to prompt the placing of the sign (and the one at the other end)...
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    Is there a cat?
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    When you wrote 'tun up the sound', I was expecting to hear the sounds of the trains and the waves crashing against the shore, not weird and overly-dramatic music...
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    For those interested, these are the ones concerned:
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    I thought this had something to do with the midget bench seat... Originally 6077, if you like your SR EMUs in old money...
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    I presume the name is properly spelt fücker, with the 'u' pronounced as the 'ou' in 'you' or as in the 'say it as you see it' on the internet URL on the engine hatch...
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    Baby 20s?
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    'Parliamentary' class is still alive and well...
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    Them ex-SR PMVs got about a bit, didn't they?
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    The only thing 'modern image' for 1975 in this photo is the staff uniform jacket...
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    Probably because most of the VRF cameras point at a crossing or two? Or, in the case of Chehalis, WA, three...
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    Looks like that unit is ready for its last journey - open doors on the first vehicle, and the last one is the wrong way round for normal service...
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    At my age, those are the ones I'm most afraid of...!!
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    A pair of 4SUBs arriving on a peak hour at Waterloo could easily disgorge upwards of a thousand...
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    Despite many notifications to them (both via Email and face-to-face) they still don't acknowledge that their version of BR(S) Green as applied to their BR-period Maunsells is actually more like SR Malachite...
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    Does the Oggy Oggy Pasty Co. use donkeys to haul their wagons about?
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    Brush was too short?
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    One evening four of us bagged the second class compartment in a 4CIG on a late Victoria-Brighton/Ore service which split at Haywards Heath. The usual thing was to be woken up by the 60' track on the Ouse Valley viaduct ready to fall out of the train at the Heath and make our way home. One evening we didn't and were woken up by the carriage cleaners in Ore sidings. We later discovered that CWR had been laid on the viaduct between this trip and the previous similar one...
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