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Post by bassmike on Oct 10, 2020 17:41:46 GMT
Location A should be view "South-East"
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Post by bassmike on Oct 8, 2020 18:50:05 GMT
he mentions that 230 002 is the "first mainline battery train that's run in the UK", but again wouldn't this be true of the old BR BEMU that ran on the Royal Deeside Line, or more recently the "IPEMU" Class 379. . And the SR's MLVs could run on battery power. I read once that one of them actually provided a passenger shuttle between Dover Western Docks and priory when there was a power failure. Standing room only, of course! I S T R that two M L V's once hauled a train from Redhill to Tonbridge before the line was electrified.
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Post by bassmike on Oct 7, 2020 15:53:56 GMT
If only the politicians would stay out of all business If the politicians stayed out of business a lot more people would have been on the dole instead of on furlough It's due a lot to the politicians that we are in this mess to start with
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Post by bassmike on Oct 7, 2020 15:31:27 GMT
Your websites seem to be unavailable
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Post by bassmike on Oct 1, 2020 19:32:53 GMT
Wasn't there a proposal to call what is now the Victoria Line the WalVic (Walthamstow-Victoria) line? Before good sense prevailed? Sounds like a toilet cleaner Do you mind---I was a toilet cleaner once!
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Post by bassmike on Sept 26, 2020 14:56:32 GMT
I am getting truly depressed by the endless excuses about a railway which were regularly told would be open for December 2018. I note the "planned summer possession" was officially due to end today - when the core was off limits to trains and handed over to building teams so that all residual building stuff was meant to have been completed - so that active line testing could then resume. Any bets on that deadline being achieved? I wonder how long it will be before Mark Wild comes along with another of his cheery videos telling us how everyone has been working their little socks off over the summer and that it will only be a few more years and need just a few more £Billion before the CrossRail core will be ready for passengers. Given the snails pace progress, doubtless CrossRail should rank as the safest and most efficient work-site on the planet just like a Yes-Minister Hospital which was wonderfully efficient without any patients. Did you say "cheery" and not "cheesy"?
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Post by bassmike on Sept 20, 2020 16:20:08 GMT
If only the politicians would stay out of all business
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Post by bassmike on Sept 12, 2020 17:20:32 GMT
Is the dog relevant??
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Post by bassmike on Sept 12, 2020 17:18:06 GMT
Do morgan-Chase have the legal authority to do this??
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Post by bassmike on Sept 10, 2020 17:19:09 GMT
Finchley rd: &frognal?
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Post by bassmike on Sept 9, 2020 18:30:34 GMT
Don't work
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Post by bassmike on Sept 7, 2020 19:26:33 GMT
Is roof Smithfield mkt:?
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Post by bassmike on Sept 7, 2020 19:24:19 GMT
I remember seeing B R 060 diesel shunters on the meat trains to Smithfield
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Post by bassmike on Aug 23, 2020 13:36:16 GMT
If you employ monkeys then you get inferior peanuts.
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Post by bassmike on Aug 23, 2020 13:29:06 GMT
I think that is a definite as platform heights are being changed and the tube stock will not be compatible. They ran the East londop line with tube stock with high platforms for several years
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Post by bassmike on Aug 21, 2020 19:13:37 GMT
I think the Island line needs a bit more than just tamping.
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Post by bassmike on Aug 21, 2020 19:11:50 GMT
Time to kill H S 2 quick before anymore disasters-financial f---k-ups - lack of purpose and before it's too late. For god's sake get real and use the money for something useful like the N H S
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Post by bassmike on Aug 3, 2020 18:26:40 GMT
Outside of Marylebone?
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Post by bassmike on Jul 27, 2020 15:57:36 GMT
I thought that I should add this here - 1989 was the last year before I bought a camcorder, so this was filmed with silent super 8 film and the image is somewhat 'soft'. Mostly filmed at West Hampstead with one scene at Neasden. Did you notice the typical "neasden bounce" as it approached the platform over the points?
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Post by bassmike on Jul 27, 2020 15:48:04 GMT
I remember going to Woodford satation to inspect them the day after the 1987 election, when James Arbuthnot MP had his loudspeaker cat outside thanking voters. I seem to remember the prototypes were better than the 92TS production fleet turned out! Not really. I worked on getting them displayed at Woodford. They were very rough and ready. The window apertures on the blue train looked like they had been cut with a can opener. The overhead hand rails were positioned so that an average height person would hit their head when getting up from the middle seats. They were all concept designs. Duid you say he had his loudspeaker CAT there?
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Post by bassmike on Jul 26, 2020 19:26:32 GMT
Probably from the disaster in Germany several years ago when a train derailed and hit an overbridge.
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Post by bassmike on Jul 22, 2020 18:51:04 GMT
Where's the masses of overhanging vegetation?
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Post by bassmike on Jul 11, 2020 23:58:18 GMT
I remember seeing Brush type 2 locos on the Hainault loop in the 1965-ish time frame. Whether they reached Newbury Park I don't know, but presumably they joined the central by the Leytonstone connection as the Ilford bit had closed a bit earlier. Strangely enough I've just read the Ian Allan/Aerofilms book of London stations from the air. I seem to remember (correct me if I'm wrong) but did a class 33 visit N P once or twice?
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Post by bassmike on Jul 6, 2020 19:58:46 GMT
Queenstown Rd. Battersea?
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Post by bassmike on Jul 3, 2020 14:55:29 GMT
I think i might have meant Peter snow (is he the one who used to change his necktie every two minuit?) Whichever one it was,he presented a t v programme about some preserved line or similar =can't remember the title= Where he boomed out juvenile questions in a loud and patronizing way . John Snow is the arrogant news reader, Peter Snow is the 'love child' of Magnus Pyke. The sons ok, its his father who wants tying down. Better still, only bring him out when the election counts are on I thought it was John Snow (him with the endless necktie wardrobe)Quite agree with you.
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Post by bassmike on Jul 3, 2020 14:51:05 GMT
Booody H--, I seem to have started something!!
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Post by bassmike on Jul 2, 2020 14:58:52 GMT
I think i might have meant Peter snow (is he the one who used to change his necktie every two minuit?) Whichever one it was,he presented a t v programme about some preserved line or similar =can't remember the title= Where he boomed out juvenile questions in a loud and patronizing way .
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Post by bassmike on Jul 1, 2020 13:14:38 GMT
Correction to my last post----I meant Jon Snow not his son Dan Snow who is not as bad,but not blameless in that respect.
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Post by bassmike on Jun 30, 2020 17:33:48 GMT
Unfortunately,I agree about the "effervescent" presentation. This seems to be a disease nowadays where everything is presented in a state of semi-hysteria with loud irrelevant background music over which the presenter shouts loudly, which he would not need to do if the background music wasn't there or much quieter, .This obviously also applies to all types of programme on all topics. Not quite so noisy but worse in some ways are programmes like those presented by Dan Snow and his ilk with bombastic ill-informed and patronising presentation--- but then I'm just a miserable old fart!
<<Rincew1nd: three duplicate posts deleted.>>
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Post by bassmike on Jun 28, 2020 18:28:26 GMT
The current challenge for the government is to kick start shovel ready projects. The trouble is there aren't too many of them around. We've seen further up the thread that there are LU/TfL jobs that are virtually shovel ready, and others that should not be cut back because of funding. Trouble is that the political imperative is to spend money in the north, and there are comparatively few big shovel ready projects up there. Getting Crossrail finished, not truncating the 4LM ATC and getting on with the Piccadilly signalling are probably the quickest. Outside, HS2 is the biggest show that's ready, but not the Northern parts which haven't completed the act of parliament process (have they started?) Up north they will also be keen on trans Pennine connectivity, but as far as I know this hasn't even got as far as the drawing board. Heaven help them if they have to go though the public procurement process! So if you want something done that drives prosperity in the North, invest in London. I seem to recall one of the Mayors of London said this........now what was his name? H S T should be cancelled immediately before any more money is blown on it.
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