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    The idea of the Parliamentary Train lingered on among railway workers; immediately after the first collision at Quintinshill (May 1915) one of the signalmaen inquired of the other " What's happened ?"; to which the other replied "My God Jimmy, you've got the Parly standing there" (according to LTC Rolt, anyway).
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    Bears repeating, again and again; the price of everything and the value of nothing. It's not confined only to public bodies, either. You'd be surprised at how many private bodies, when putting capital projects out to tender, only look at the installation costs, rather than those over the whole life of the installation.
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    You say "potayto, I say portarto"
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    Going back to a previous post; if a railway scheme has passed Parliament and been signed of by Her Maj, can the government just sell off the land detailed in the act? Crewe - Manchester, no problem, but Handsacre - Crewe?
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    Some of the Rose Hill trains which run round the Hyde Loop (Hyde Jct. - Romiley) are certainly 195s
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    Certainly at Handsacre, that seems to be the case.
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    The chap with the knowledge of railways around Wigan is Apollo.
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    Now building HS2 as a Crewe - Preston line (and thus bypassing ALL the bottlenecks in one hit) is a different matter.... Agreed! Crossing the Ribble might be fun, but it makes sense to do it properly. Make the junction somewhere around Garstang!
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    O.K., I'm getting my crayons out! My feeling is that phase 2A should be built, come what may. It does so much to increase capacity, it isn't true. As remarked somewhere else (Green Signals no. 6 I think, posted on here earlier), the other capacity buster was the leg from Crewe to Golborne. I'd abandon phase 2B as it stands and reinstate that; apart from crossing the Ship Canal and the Mersey, would there be any serious civil engineering problems on this part?
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    Was just coming on to mention that. No comment from the presenter, just let the railfreight bosses tell it like it is with the cancellation. They made the point very well about the "Stafford Bypass" being crucial to unlocking capacity. Apart from anything else there has (seemingly) been a lot of investment at Daventry in anticipation of HS2 being built. Wasted money? M.S. & L.?
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    Do you think that, as Britain was in on the industrial pollution game from its very beginning, 250 years ago, that we should just forget it? The same could apply to most "Developed" economies
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    That goes against 'free trade' rules, though. If our government attempted that, it could in theory, at the minimum, find itself being sued under WTO rules on restriction of trade grounds
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    Been happening since the 1980s
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    Good point!
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    Look at how long it took to electrify a line between two major cities, when both major cities had electric services from the early 1960s, and which was electrified in the middle in the early 1970s. The line is just over 30 miles long
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    J790; That train looks incredibly short for a Newcastle - Liverpool at that time. Most of the ones I saw South/West of Huddersfield were at least load 10.
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    Is that you, mate?
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    A fair few on Metrolink in Manchester
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    I always thought that blast furnaces made the raw iron from ore. Producing the steel is a further process, at first using the Bessemer - Mushet process, then open - hearth, and then more controllable processes such as LD or electric arc. There is a lot of carbon in raw iron absorbed from the coke; to make steel, you have to get rid of all but about 0.1 to 0.8% of it.
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    The roads between Stalybridge and Stockport via Denton and Reddish aren't exactly favourable for a replacement bus; the location of Denton Station is particularly problematic for this when coming from Stalybridge. Besides, there's a lobby group in Denton which wants Northern to start a Stockport - Victoria via Denton service. Where that would fit in between Ashton Moss North and Victoria, I don't know!
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    Advert on my Faceache feed today from LSL, assuring anyone who has booked on any of their tours so far that their booking is safe because all their stock is fitted with CDL.
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    JVol 4031 recently ( the last two or three months) turned up on a steam memories group on Faceache
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    Particularly as the LMS had stock with pnuematically operated sliding doors running in the mid - 1930s, and the LNER intended to by the mid - 1940s; was the LNER Tyneside stock sliding - door? I can't remember without looking.
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    They weren't, though; it was a government - forced amalgamation, as an alterative to nationalisation.
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    Well, there would be the redesign costs for a start. Phase 2A was the Stafford bypass, as well as the Colwich bypass and the Norton Bridge bypass. Whether it was a total Crewe bypass, I don't know. 36 miles, no major engineering challenges; GET IT BUILT!
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