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by Tom Quayle » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:46 am
I know yellow denotes first class but this is stupid (lol I sence a caption copertition coming on).
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richard
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by richard » Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:20 pm
Amidst reports of deteriorating passenger standards, GNER deny that their First Class accommodation is little better than Third Class during the 1830s.
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by LNERandBR » Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:38 pm
Why is that HST Power Car Pulling a freight Train
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by Bullhead » Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:16 pm
"Coaches A to Z are dedicated quiet coaches".
So - did anyone dare tell Stephenson, "It's not Rocket science"?
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by richard » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:03 pm
Tom: Do you have the real story behind this picture?
(btw, I think caption-compeittion photos like this are a good idea!)
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Tom Quayle
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by Tom Quayle » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:18 am
No sorry richard no background I was reserching the New Track Measurement train at the time and this came up as a search result. I wounder if it was one of the trails Network rail did with class 43s.
Heres another idea: The west coast update plan falters as GNER wins the Freight contract
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by LNERandBR » Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:02 pm
'some unusual motive power was seen today after a GNER HST Power car went to assist an EWS class 66 which had failed and blocked the ECML'
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