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  1. 62613
    Good question, but I suspect we'll have to wait a good few years to find out. Another possibility, I suppose, is that there will be a reserved seat system; once all the seats in a train are taken, that's it!
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    How can you identify cost savings, etc., without having to do detail redesign work? Speaking as someone who has had to do just that many times over the years. Rather the thought the engineers had been ready to go for a few years now, but it was the politicians being distracted by something else that had caused the delay. The points in the article about cost inflation due to the environmental works in Bucks, and wondering if there is anyone in government who can manage a project of this size, are well-made
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    Would I be correct in thinking that HS2 is the largest single railway project, in terms of mileage, ever attempted in this country. The only others that come close are probably the Great Northern, The London & Birmingham and the Grand Junction, surely.
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    All the way from Verney to Sheffield? With so much of the trackbed built upon, bridges demolished, used as footpaths, 2 preservation groups, he's talking through his backside! The author also makes the usual mistake of thinking that it's all about saving time. I thought the maximum speed was never that high. anyway
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    Trafford park "village" has a similar street numbering system. I can't remember which are the evens and which he odds.
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    My bad! The A670!
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    Uppermill is in Saddleworth, about 5 miles east of Oldham, on the A669. The museum is worth a visit in its own right. Plenty of eateries in the village, and one or two decent bars and pubs; also, in the nearby village of Greenfield.
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    Sadly not. It was mentioned in a conversation with Norman Wisenden
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    You should visit more often!
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    About 50 years ago, (!) the school I attended involved a coach trip. The West Riding CC contracted private coach operators to do the transport. our coaches were from a neighbouring village, Which was fine, until one day the police stopped our driver, on another job, and found he was under age for driving PSVs. The coach company went out of business, and the council had to hire another company very quickly!
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    Not that much; also, I'm now at that stage where I've started shrinking.
  12. 62613
    Shouldn't have stopped (the train, I mean!)
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    I was referring to Peanuts
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    I wouldn't say he was tall!
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    Well, there are already 6, or is it 8, tph on the WCML south of Rugby at the moment. Avanti have plans to increase services to/from Liverpool to haf-hourly asap; then we get the trains from the Northern part of the MML and ECML, which are planned to use HS2 once complete. It soon adds up!
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    The ex-LNER coach set for the Newcastle - Liverpools via Standedge still featured teak coaches as late as 1953.
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    And the first phase of the Mottram - Tintwistle bypass (Hattersley to Mottram Moor) has apparently got the go-ahead for construction after 40 years!
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    I think it's been mentioned elsewhere on this thread that the only reason the first phase of the WCML electrification was ever completed was because it was started from Manchester
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    North Eastern Railway S2 class, LNER class B15, no. 825 was built with Stumpff uniflow cylinders
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    There was an article in Backtrack years ago about some of J.G, Robinson's locos, including the neverwassas. This was one of them; it was a monster!
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    I've been cloned! I don't remember writing, or quoting that. I am not, nor ever have been on the railway.
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    That sounds like the sort of thing that happened to me when I trained as a marine engineer, 50 years ago. What a good idea something like that would be!
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    In its entirety?
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    I have to say that that almost looks like a 3D render, or a publicity poster
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    By the same token, have you any idea of the "Final Cost", apart from the figure quoted? Which may or may not be correct, given that over 20 tears a lot of thing could happen to change that
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