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Post by brigham on Jan 23, 2019 8:41:24 GMT
While a train driver may be able to do the routine parts of their job from an office miles away, until trains are 100% reliable and isolated from all external influences (humans, animals, weather, vegetation) there will always be a need for a member of staff to be on-board or within a few minutes travel (by other means) from any point where the train can be. There will certainly be a need. Whether or not there will be a member of staff is another matter.
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Post by brigham on Jan 22, 2019 8:53:39 GMT
All this technology to keep the guard out of a job. It's perfectly clear that the driver is next to go. If you can do your job by watching TV screens, it doesn't make any difference if you are on the train, or in some office miles away. Ask any unemployed level-crossing keeper.
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Post by brigham on Jan 18, 2019 17:34:25 GMT
B inset is John and Yoko.
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Post by brigham on Jan 17, 2019 9:10:39 GMT
I had no idea any were left. I thought they had disappeared with the Blackout, and never returned.
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Post by brigham on Jan 16, 2019 8:42:28 GMT
The diagram looks like another crazy TOC livery.
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Post by brigham on Jan 15, 2019 8:55:12 GMT
Something Eric Laithwaite didn't take into consideration. Ah well, back to the Wheel!
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Post by brigham on Jan 15, 2019 8:49:48 GMT
I first thought it was the Gibraltar House of Assembly, in John Mackintosh Square, but further inspection reveals otherwise.
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Post by brigham on Jan 10, 2019 8:49:26 GMT
Wood is one of my favourite construction materials, chiefly because it not only gives scope for skilled design and craftsmanship, but actually demands it. Although, until you can find a sustainable supply of Teak or ancient Oak, it remains high on maintenance costs.
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Post by brigham on Jan 9, 2019 13:06:41 GMT
The faceless sidewalls are uninspiring, but the roof looks like a station roof ought to. Is it wooden? That type of laminated beamwork was a fad in the late 1950s, but proved less durable than was hoped.
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Post by brigham on Jan 9, 2019 8:53:27 GMT
A rope-worked incline on the DLR? We had loads of them in the Durham Coalfield, but not for passengers!
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Post by brigham on Jan 5, 2019 9:08:04 GMT
The Albion lorry? I have no idea where that is; I'd guess somewhere between London and Brighton.
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Post by brigham on Dec 29, 2018 8:43:01 GMT
Newspapers deal with this by having a written list of terms used (or otherwise), called 'style'. It's a sort of 'constitution', in a way.
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Post by brigham on Dec 21, 2018 17:53:33 GMT
"...that the British love so dearly..."
The British as opposed to..?
Something Oscar Wilde would come out with, being Irish and all...
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Post by brigham on Dec 21, 2018 17:42:48 GMT
It's certainly bushy!
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Post by brigham on Dec 21, 2018 9:25:22 GMT
Gents' lav. in A is the one in Star Yard.
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Post by brigham on Dec 19, 2018 14:45:10 GMT
The under-running third rail suggests Amsterdam, but I don't recognise the station.
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Post by brigham on Dec 19, 2018 9:53:30 GMT
'Renters' has lost its unsavoury nuance, I take it!
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Post by brigham on Dec 19, 2018 8:59:16 GMT
Inset A: Humber Bridge. Inset C: Albert Bridge. The link MAY involve bridges.
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Post by brigham on Dec 19, 2018 8:55:00 GMT
Considering the outrage caused by a relatively harmless feminist statement, I can't wait to see the outrage that next year's programme will cause... Has there been outrage over it? I'm surprised anyone worked out what it was meant to be. I'm a bit isolated here in 'The North' (as it's called), and I've run out of credible newspapers.
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Post by brigham on Dec 18, 2018 15:21:45 GMT
Difficult. Politics uses Art, and extreme Politics uses extreme Art.
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Post by brigham on Dec 18, 2018 11:12:03 GMT
If somebody put a POLITICAL message on, it wouldn't be 'appropriate', NAZI or otherwise.
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Post by brigham on Dec 17, 2018 8:54:23 GMT
Wizzard!
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Post by brigham on Dec 15, 2018 8:34:56 GMT
It reminded me of the health warning on a cigarette packet.
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Post by brigham on Dec 15, 2018 8:31:27 GMT
Sixth in the set is Pygmalion; a former station serving Myfair.
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Post by brigham on Dec 13, 2018 9:15:51 GMT
What is this one about?
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Post by brigham on Dec 12, 2018 14:44:57 GMT
What is the historical significance of Network SouthEast? It was some sort of quango in the dying days of BR, wasn't it? Invented by ad-men as some sort of 'image-booster'?
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Post by brigham on Dec 12, 2018 14:40:27 GMT
The long-running series of disruptions will not have helped.
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Post by brigham on Dec 10, 2018 9:18:28 GMT
Internal 'road-learning' films sometimes turn up. Does anyone know if LT made any?
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Post by brigham on Dec 10, 2018 9:16:10 GMT
As suggested...
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Post by brigham on Dec 8, 2018 8:31:37 GMT
I don't remember Waverley looking like that. 'Brondesbury' must be the Gaelic spelling, then?
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