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More talk of new UK lines
Yet more talk about planning new high-speed rail lines in the UK. Why don’t they stop talking and build, the 2012 Olympics are getting closer and the UK needs to benefit from this, not just Lond… more »
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More talk of new UK lines
dem1972 wrote 1 month ago: Yet more talk about planning new high-speed rail lines in the UK. Why don’t they stop talking … more »
Ah England...
elscubadiver wrote 1 month ago: What’s the most annoying entity known to man? Salesmen? Shell-suits? Haemorrhoids? (In that or … more »
The sick, the lame and the criminally insane...
elscubadiver wrote 2 months ago: I’m writing this entry on a scrap of paper, six hours into a hellish British Rail-hilariously … more »
High speed rail can boost economies (?)
dem1972 wrote 4 months ago: My guess is that this is a way to convince governments to build high-speed rail networks, talk in te … more »
Shifting to Rail?
dem1972 wrote 4 months ago: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in the UK, is urging a substantial shift to using rail as t … more »
HST replacement project
dem1972 wrote 6 months ago: Another HST Originally uploaded by Mike Knell Its been around for 30 years and now the rail autho … more »
Waterloo...
dem1972 wrote 8 months ago: No, not a attempt to cover the early ABBA hit but rather the end of an era. Whilst St Pancras has ha … more »
The dawn of a new age
dem1972 wrote 8 months ago: Its more of a hope than anything else. Tomorrow (06 Nov 2007) sees the opening of the reconstructed … more »
First outing for faster Eurostar
dem1972 wrote 10 months ago: clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Eurostar is set to make its inaugural journey from Paris to … more »
High-speed railways arrive in UK
dem1972 wrote 11 months ago: Class 395, High-speed railways arrive in UK. The new fleet of 29 Hitachi Class 395 trains will be ab … more »
Upgrades
dem1972 wrote 1 year ago: The UK is getting a railway upgrade, or at least its getting a plan and probably followed by an upgr … more »
Renationalisation and Elected Chiefs.
scottcarless wrote 1 year ago: I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position … more »
High Speed UK
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dem1972 wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a fabulous idea, create a pilot, high speed rail route from London to Cardiff: Firstly … more »
Bio Fuel trial
dem1972 wrote 1 year ago: Virgin has gone bio-diesel, or at least for the next six months they will be trying it out on a con … more »
British Transport Policy
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dem1972 wrote 1 year ago: OK, its time to stop taking jibes at the UK’s railways and justify my opinions. Having now liv … more »
Found on Flickr
dem1972 wrote 1 year ago: This week’s theme is UK Railways. … more »
Point of No Return: All Aboard the Ghost Train
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mancunian1001 wrote 1 year ago: The Stockport - Stalybridge Train (1128 hours, Saturdays Only) Is this the worst scheduled passeng … more »
Fares Unfair
mancunian1001 wrote 1 year ago: Or ‘Why is a single from Stalybridge to Dukinfield four times the price per mile as one from M … more »
