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Author: TBWTGTBWTG
Date: Jun 8, 2010 12:06
On Jun 7, 6:24 am, Neil Williams gmail.com> wrote:> On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 11:30:18 +0100, "Tim Fenton" btinternet.com> wrote:>> How? The only reliable way I know to increase the legroom in my car
> is to
>> move my seat backwards, thus reducing the legroom for the rear
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> offside seat.
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> Car industry "model inflation" I guess - with each iteration a given
> model gets bigger, then eventually one falls off the top and a new
> small car model is added at the bottom.
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> Neil
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> Neil Williams, Milton Keynes, UK
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Author: YokelYokel
Date: Jun 8, 2010 11:51
On 07/06/2010 10:45, David Hansen wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 02:29:14 -0700 (PDT) someone who may be dave
> googlemail.com> wrote this:-
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> >> What has failed a fair few times is the new electric points at Praed
>> Street!
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> Interesting to know. An earlier poster said that it may be new
> equipment which is more prone to failure.
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> I am reminded of the axle counters around the Severn Tunnel which
> couldn't cope with sunshine, leading to repeated failures and
> eventually a crash which appears to have been caused by the axle
> counters being reset without proper precautions (though this cannot
> be concluded as the witch-hunt atmosphere of the time (lessened but
> not totally gone these days I gather) meant that people are not
> likely to admit to mistakes).
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> Obviously old signalling equipment could and can be affected by the ...
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Author: Charlie HulmeCharlie Hulme
Date: Jun 8, 2010 11:41
Holly Black wrote:
> On Jun 5, 4:09 am, Charlie Hulme davenportstation.org.uk> wrote:>> Why can't they adjust their leasing charges in expectation of a
>> 15 or 20-year life? How anyone can be expected to predict what
>> the world will be like in 35 years?
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> I will.
> I predict that in 35 years diesel fuel will be so expensive that very
> little of it will be used.
Quite possibly so. In that case I will risk a prediction that in
35 years, or much less, energy storage technology will have
progressed to the point that it will no longer be necessary to
string up ugly (and damage-prone) overhead wires to operate
stopping train services, with all the attendant disruption during
the laborious process of installation.
Battery-powered railcars were in use in Germany nearly 100 years
ago, so it's surely not going to be hard to bring the technology
up to date.
Charlie
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Author: Michael BellMichael Bell
Date: Jun 8, 2010 10:32
It is accepted that HS2's proposal or any other North-South high-speed
railway proposal cannot pay its way while only a London - Birmingham
link has been built AND that the London - Birmingham link will be the
most expensive part of whole North-South route. So then, the answer is
to build the cheap bits first, the Ringby loop (Birmingham, Stoke,
Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry,
Birmingham), offshoots off it to Scotland, Liverpool and Hull.
THEN the expensive London - Birmingham link can be built. This would
be the normal financier/business way of doing it.
Michael Bell
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Author: MIGMIG
Date: Jun 8, 2010 09:37
On 28 Apr, 17:44, Phil Hills btinternet.com> wrote:> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:39:16 -0700 (PDT), TimB yahoo.co.uk>
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>>>On Apr 28, 10:19 am, Baffobear gmail.com> wrote:>>> On Apr 28, 10:14 am, Baffobear gmail.com> wrote:>
>>>> I don't think so entirely. The cambridge cruisers are part of the
>>>> Kings Lynn routetimetable. I can't find where that particular
>>>>timetableis on the NR site
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>>> They're still operational.
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>>The Kings Lynntimetableonly shows the ones that go on to Ely and KL ...
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Author: Michael BellMichael Bell
Date: Jun 8, 2010 08:51
The Tories said they were going to cancel the Heathrow 3rd runway, but
I haven't heard yet that they've done it.
Michael Bell
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