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  1. billbedford
    If it was a hedge planted by the railway it would be mainly quickthorn with a few random other species. Such a hedge would very likely have been laid to form a thick barrier to livestock. The poplars look like they have been planted post railway as a wind break.
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    And there's the Richard Montgomery just off Sheerness
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    Yes, but they are not Aurochs.
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    So what have the Greenies been releasing in Kent then?
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    Don't be silly. Old signs can hang around long after the information they contain has ceased to be relevant, as the 'Ghosts in the Machine' thread shows.
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    Err no. The cutouts were three hexagonal holes each centred on the corner brackets for the containers.
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    More to the point, people will remember the one incident where a phone was blamed for something, than millions of times where nothing remarkable happened
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    Is this Norwegian ballast spoil from their ship tunnel?
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    If you don't think you are getting the full pension, it's worth applying for Pension Credit which will make up the difference between the pension the DWP calculates and the "full" Pension.
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    Everyone has assumed that this ban was about phones being a fire risk, but I was told at an early stage of the technology, the ban was more about active phones possibly interfering with the signals between the pumps and the control equipment and cash registers.
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    I was also wondering whether fixed-sided wagons would have been preferred to drop-sided?
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    With slate loads wouldn't they be wedged in tight so they weren't likely to move when in motion?
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    The Midland also had 500 long low wagons with 9-inch sides, which since they were classed as specials, would not have been included in the common agreements. The later conflat types came into this category.
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    They'll make the whole country into a ULEZ.
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    Yes because timber got progressively more expensive from the mid-19th century leading to standard wagons having narrower planks
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    But wait until the AI reports something like "The cat knocked the train off the track"
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    ...and why is this a problem?
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    I'm still not sure how this bat tunnel is supposed to work. At first, I thought it might be a roost, but then I saw that it was to prevent bats from flying into trains. Really? Are the existing railways lined with dead bats? As far as I can see the £40m would be better spent putting wire cages around wind turbines which are known to kill both bags and birds.
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    Not as bad as moving from the ratlines to the footropes on a square rigger, and the building is not moving around either.
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    Yep, it's called innovation and is how the world moves forward, or perhaps not.
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    Is Bechstein’s bat the new Great Crested Newt?
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    Did anyone ask the bats? It will be amusing if they refuse to use it.
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    But Turner's railway paintings are not "solid" enough to build models from.
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    On the other hand, why would some of these wagons be picked out for that routing instruction? Wouldn't there be enough wagons of the same type to use the next empty one?
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