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    Under the old interlocking (Gloucester Panel), the Up Main (71) and Up Goods (171) signals at Bromsgrove wouldn't come off for 3 minutes when the forward route was set, if the berth track circuit was occupied. This gave whatever was already on the incline time to crest the summit. Bit of a 'though if you had two close together from Stoke Works Junction...
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    Readers may be interested in this article which perhaps sheds some light on the regulations involved. You may need to ignore some of the tone. And now we hand you back to your regular programming....
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    See here: Compare this to the French response:
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    Is the training traction specific or more general?
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    Speaking as someone who wasn't even born at the time, I would be interested. It still surprises me the number of times RMweb threads pop up in an internet search for information - and they usually have the info I'm looking for....
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    Some of it went this way. This can't have been the first time either...
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    What will they say when the ship hits a fan?... TAXI FOR ONE!! Edit reason: Punctuashun.
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    So would you say it's more than just a reluctance to be first adopter and bear all the developement costs?
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    There's an apocryphal story of a LNER driver when asked for his thoughts on the day of a speed run replied, "If we hit something today, we're gonna hit it 'ard!".
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    You can never beat Nature to be sure, but you can sometimes 'bat out a draw' (to use a cricket analogy).
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