John Holt

A European/British male who occasionally ventures onto blogsites. Basically shifting from this site and unfollowing as posters appear in bluer climes.

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@AvantiWestCoast @JasonGiller Birmingham New Street is the easiest. Round the Soho loop if points or signal failure at one end of the station.

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@andy4wm I can’t help thinking you are boosting this in the expectation Rachel will cut it to fund defence. How do we end up with 4 mainline stations in Birmingham when HS2 opens. Its a shambles.

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@RuthDavidsonPC If they were SNP branded and used by campaigners, fair do. If they were resold and the proceeds pocketted then an issue. That is the question over much of this.

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@CrecyRail @railway200 Congratulations. Someone has finally had the courage to say it. I saw it first at Kidderminster but couldn’t go on as they wanted prebooked tickets - it was empty. I visited it at Shildon and it was a big disappointment.

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@SimonZev @gceccles @Canary135 I am pleased to report Christmas is still more than 100 days away.

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@RichFromRail Is TPE route modernisation in part responsible for revenue shortfall? Be interesting to see a route by route analysis.

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@njbirse @Captain_Deltic @DanielJHannan The safety metrics of the Big 4 and early BR were disastrous mostly due to staff casualties. Safety is largely driven by the loss of wagonload freight and loco hauled trains with shunting accidents and by permanent way mechanisation.

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@BenGrahamUK It will never pass UK safety or environmental rules. Remember the German crash? A lightweight unit built like an aircraft with poor impct resistance and linked to the ground so energy could not be dissipated. The necessary elevated tracks would be environmental fails.

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@SteveWhiteRail @lfg_uk @cnbcwatcher90 Its not the fleet - its the customers. Its odd that Thameslink toilets and Bakerloo tubes are disproportionately hit. On Thameslink the toilets are the only bit not covered by CCTV and it shows its worth as compared to Bakerloo.

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@alanrgibson @LBFlyawayhome Sn error in the drawing I think

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@JohnWil45304495 @ianvisits As a 15 year old trainspotter in the seventies I travelled on an excursion train from Manchester to London. Mum asked where I was going while she shopped and was appalled when I said Stratford as, to her mind, Stratford upon Avon was a long was from London. SF though was not.

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@Captain_Deltic @Lord_Sugar They did. Through to the PCW. Excellent value.

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@WatkinsDyf32426 @VeteranIrish The same story is often told of the village of Gwasanaethau on the A55 in north Wales

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@AWCook0558 @creatingdesire A map opens opportunities and ideas in a way an app doesn’t.

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@Jeanblaguin16 @HelloIAmAntoine @paytick2 @Eurostar The difference between Eurostar and TGV is that Eurostar needs customs and immigration and that doesn’t wash its face for Kent stops. Kent voted to leave the EU and now reaps what it sowed.

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@MrJamesMay This retired idiot has agreed to an 8AM doctors appointment on Monday. Schoolboy error.

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@Captain_Deltic @TheFactCompiler No a dat weak spot flagged https://t.co/qzGRWToNdP

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@VeteranIrish Ridiculously, you could have 4 city centre stations. New St, Moor st, Snow Hill and Curzon st. Curzon St is HS2 so perhaps a whopping price to buy it.

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@workaid_org Try Bluesky.

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@Captain_Deltic @Heidi_Labour https://t.co/7FTu2vwTLG actually not bad. I guess that if you electrify to Oxford tickets will cost the same as to Swindon. Then again it’s worth looking at what is not mentioned -electrification and High Speed 2. But the focus seems good.