Chris Burton

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@BrianNe08342467 Excellent in all respects, Brian.

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@RaggedTP My God, and people wonder why we have unions!

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@miles_chains But sadly, not an unmitigated reliability success.

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@RAIL Amen to that.

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@SusanSarandon I think you may have missed the point: we were celebrating a person who did her onerous job with seemingly total integrity. How rare is this?

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@emmablox1 @bbcproms @londonsymphony @CBSOChorus @louisealdersop @spconnolly @BBCSounds @BBCRadio3 Yes, extraordinary work with a near celestial conclusion. Rattle again showed deep understanding and grip of this vast piece, which always leaves me speechless.

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@RAIL No!

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@RailfutureEA Perhaps you ought to have noted it was a Stadler 745(101), which are usually rostered LivSt to Norwich and Stansted only services. They are twice the length of the far more common 755 bi-modes.

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@hourlyFox @Jalnnoxx That's a wonderfully well fed smirk, to be sure.

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@RobertClark125 @LNER So, what about this aged foul exhaust bit of junk?

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@LNER Where is this incidentally?

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@DaveLiamvad @LNER Bland they certainly are in that highly drab dark livery, and with somewhat spartan seating. But they leave the lovely HSTs in their dust for acceleration, and smooth riding. Mind you, the latter is more probably down to NetwRail and IKBrunel.

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@pugw5sh @Bobbyda49732973 But circumstances are changing are they not?

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@Captain_Deltic @chhcalling During RMT/ASLEF Parliam'Select Comm' last week, both union reps referred to phrase 'managed decline of railway' eminating from Civil Service lips of late! Hoped never to hear that well aged statement again in a railway context.

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@NoelDolphin @TheFactCompiler @McWhirterAlex @Volcanic_Ash24 @GarethDennis Noel, thanks for that. Is it really appreciably more expensive to design/stress for 40C?

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There's been lots of talk of closing all Rail Ticket Offices. We set out our vision of what should replace them - and what else needs to change - and why the ability to buy tickets from people will remain essential: https://t.co/W6JnOTEqB8

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@holtona72 @Bennybizzle1 @Andym13 @MrDeltic15 @thesatnav89 @WilsonBone @LeicRailAle170 @kingy69beard I've only sampled them on GWR, where they out-accelerate their predecessors, and ride very smoothly (so one does not notice the poor seating quite so much).

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@RPMarks Yes, Brexit and immigration prejudice has much to answer for.

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@SteveWhiteRail @Captain_Deltic Always worth much more than a quick scan read!!

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@TrainDriverRNLI @LNER Great use of colour.