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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 02/04/2011 at 23:36 #2746 | |
Quizman
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 02/04/2011 at 23:36 #14715 | |
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Quizman
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 02/04/2011 at 23:53 #14717 | |
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AndyG
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Maybe you get an extra one every seventh leap year?
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 03/04/2011 at 00:00 #14718 | |
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UKTrainMan
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Certainly made for interesting watching but isn't Latchmere Curve actively used by London Overground trains terminating at Clapham Junction (Platform 2)?.... :rolleyes:
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 03/04/2011 at 00:46 #14719 | |
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mfcooper
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UKTM - indeed, they have got their line name wrong. They mean the Up/Down Kensington line between Imperial Wharf and Wandsworth Road that 1 passenger train runs along each way during the week (One Shepherd's Bush to Wandsworth Road in the morning peak, and one Wandsworth Road to Kensington Olympia in the evening peak). Because the evening peak return doesn't go back to Shepherd's Bush, I guess he can get away with saying it doesn't come back again. I liked the comment by the female presenter about "Surely it has to come back again". In fact, once the morning one terminates at Wandsworth Road, it carries on away from the West London Line to Selhurst Depot via Herne Hill, Tulse Hill and Streatham Common. And the evening one is empty from the depot over the return route to Wandsworth Road to then begin its journey to Kensington Olympia. Both of these services are the end (in the morning) and the start (in the evening) of a Clapham Junction to Shepherd's Bush (am)/Kensington Olympia (pm) shuttle service at peak times (run by Southern using the same Train Description letters [M/O] as its Croydon to Milton Keynes services). Log in to reply |
| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 03/04/2011 at 09:27 #14721 | |
postal
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I think there is a real one-way only Parly service in the current TT, which is the FO 09:25 from Stockport to Stalybridge. This gives Reddish South and Denton their 1 train of the week. It is listed in Table 78; I can't find a working in the other direction in that table.
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 03/04/2011 at 20:32 #14753 | |
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Woodhead Signalman
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The FO train from SKPT to STALY was for quite a while one of the last Greater Manchester services to use the old DMU Class 101 stock. I know because I especially made a point of travelling on it one day many years ago as a special 'treat' to myself  I guess these days the stock provided is a 142 'Pacer' or some such.
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 04/04/2011 at 12:07 #14763 | |
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bill_gensheet
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The Fort William sleeper is a one-way Parly too, different bits each way: The southbound uses Cowlairs N curve The northbound uses via Sighthill W - Cowlairs W During the period when the sleeper was going to be withdrawn, this created the 2359 BHO Westerton - Bishopbriggs as a parly to cover north curve, but this was deemed too infrequent so it became MO. Sighthill was to be covered by rerouting an Inverness - Glasgow via Cumbernauld and reversal Eastfield loop. However, back to Kensington, this still does not fix the missing rail service over Willesden SW sidings and Acton Wells - Acton Main Line. That is still a one-day-a-week bus Bill Log in to reply |
| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 04/04/2011 at 16:42 #14791 | |
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Jan
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bill_gensheet said:However, back to Kensington, this still does not fix the missing rail service over Willesden SW sidings and Acton Wells - Acton Main Line. That is still a one-day-a-week bus Or you use a 2003 or 2004 timetable on Simsig NLL. Two million people attempt to use Birmingham's magnificent rail network every year, with just over a million of them managing to get further than Smethwick. Log in to reply |
| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 04/04/2011 at 23:43 #14796 | |
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Prof Jolly
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postal said:think there is a real one-way only Parly service in the current TT, which is the FO 09:25 from Stockport to Stalybridge. This gives Reddish South and Denton their 1 train of the week. It is listed in Table 78; I can't find a working in the other direction in that table.Woodhead Signalman said: The FO train from SKPT to STALY was for quite a while one of the last Greater Manchester services to use the old DMU Class 101 stock. I know because I especially made a point of travelling on it one day many years ago as a special 'treat' to myself I guess these days the stock provided is a 142 'Pacer' or some such.The National Rail website doesnt list this service in their journey planner. I might just go and check to see if the service is running this friday. 
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 05/04/2011 at 01:43 #14798 | |
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Danny252
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The NR site shows it as a Reddish South - Stalybridge service.
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 05/04/2011 at 08:48 #14802 | |
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postal
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Public TTs, don't you just love them. In Table 78 it is shown as Stockport d. 09:25, Reddish South 09x26. At 2.26 miles, that makes it a pretty impressive rate of progress. Incidentally, there as no mileages listed in the public book for the Stockport - Stalybridge sector. Presumably it is no longer a legal requirement to advertise the mileages now that even the regulated fares seem to be priced on the basis of what the market will bear rather than on a defined cost per mile (which is why we had the Parlys in the first place). “In life, there is always someone out there, who won’t like you, for whatever reason, don’t let the insecurities in their lives affect yours.” – Rashida Rowe Log in to reply |
| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 05/04/2011 at 09:00 #14803 | |
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GoochyB
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Interesting that the anchorman in the studio was Nicholas Owen, himself a railway enthusiast
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| BBC reveals parliamentary trains 05/04/2011 at 12:33 #14814 | |
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bill_gensheet
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postal said:Incidentally, there as no mileages listed in the public book for the Stockport - Stalybridge sector. Presumably it is no longer a legal requirement to advertise the mileages..........The one function is that 'the shortest route' should be a permitted route that can be used by an 'any route' ticket such as a saver. So without official mileages it is not possible to contest the permitted route map. Bill Log in to reply |