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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 2, 2014 23:19:45 GMT
You disappoint me, carlton43- I was hoping you would have met Jo Grimond! (that was definitely a joke) |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 2, 2014 23:26:27 GMT
You disappoint me, carlton43- I was hoping you would have met Jo Grimond! (that was definitely a joke) I have been in the same room as him at the RA. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Dec 2, 2014 23:27:10 GMT
You disappoint me, carlton43- I was hoping you would have met Jo Grimond! (that was definitely a joke) I have been in the same room as him at the RA. Never had you down as a member of the 'RA... |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 2, 2014 23:41:47 GMT
I have been in the same room as him at the RA. Never had you down as a member of the 'RA... Let's not get our RAs confused shall we? |
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Post by neilm on Dec 3, 2014 1:40:08 GMT
Do you have to change at Inverness for London? If so, its a branch line. If not, its a mainline, unless you consider Inverness/Perth a branch line too. What does the term branch line even mean? Is St. Erth to St. Ives (to take a very local isolated short example with no further connections) a branch line? Have you ever travelled that route? I suspect there are only three posters here who have. Me being the only non railway employee of the trio. St Erth to St Ives is a branch line. So far as I can recall, there are no direct connections to St Ives save via St Erth. No one calls it a main line route. St Erth is a surprisingly busy station though. MK to Bedford is a branch line. As is Colchester-Clacton. There are lots of examples of branches of that nature. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Dec 3, 2014 1:50:20 GMT
I suspect that more that three have. In Cornwall, I still require the Newquay branch and the track into Coombe Junction Halt.  |
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Post by neilm on Dec 3, 2014 1:51:31 GMT
Me, you, Gwythegriff. Who else is geeky enough?
Amazed you've never done Coombe Junction if you've managed St Keyne Wishing Well Halt although to be fair waiting for the reversing train was a bit of thing for those of us in Plymouth. As was the Newquay branch- at 17 it was cheaper than the bus and saved someone's car dying on the way!
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Dec 3, 2014 1:52:59 GMT
St Ives isn't just for the geeks, it's a popular tourist line.
Now if you'd said Ellesmere Port to Helsby...
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 3, 2014 3:31:53 GMT
What does the term branch line even mean? Is St. Erth to St. Ives (to take a very local isolated short example with no further connections) a branch line? Have you ever travelled that route? I suspect there are only three posters here who have. Me being the only non railway employee of the trio. St Erth to St Ives is a branch line. So far as I can recall, there are no direct connections to St Ives save via St Erth. No one calls it a main line route. St Erth is a surprisingly busy station though. MK to Bedford is a branch line. As is Colchester-Clacton. There are lots of examples of branches of that nature. I have off the down night sleeper. |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 3, 2014 3:35:09 GMT
St Ives isn't just for the geeks, it's a popular tourist line. Now if you'd said Ellesmere Port to Helsby... Or Gravesend to Allhallows under steam. Or Maidstone West to Durrington-on-Sea. |
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Post by Pimpernal on Dec 3, 2014 7:14:32 GMT
I wouldn't have thought a railway station on Shetland would be hugely useful... especially not in helping you get to London.
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Post by neilm on Dec 3, 2014 7:49:19 GMT
St Ives isn't just for the geeks, it's a popular tourist line. Now if you'd said Ellesmere Port to Helsby... But it's a branch line and only a few of us like trains enough to have used it... |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 3, 2014 10:13:08 GMT
St Ives isn't just for the geeks, it's a popular tourist line. Now if you'd said Ellesmere Port to Helsby... But it's a branch line and only a few of us like trains enough to have used it... I was on my way to meeting a friend in St, Ives, The very purpose for which it was built. |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 3, 2014 20:33:53 GMT
I wouldn't have thought a railway station on Shetland would be hugely useful... especially not in helping you get to London. HS4 to link Shetland to Paris via London and Lancashire.... |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 3, 2014 22:01:28 GMT
I wouldn't have thought a railway station on Shetland would be hugely useful... especially not in helping you get to London. It'd be useful for the distribution of pork barrels! |
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Post by carlton43 on Dec 3, 2014 22:35:58 GMT
I wouldn't have thought a railway station on Shetland would be hugely useful... especially not in helping you get to London. HS4 to link Shetland to Paris via London and Lancashire.... Will there be a branch line to Uyea from Unst South? How large a car park at Georgemas Parkway? |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 3, 2014 23:15:40 GMT
Mid Yell would be one of the all time great station names....  |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Dec 3, 2014 23:57:10 GMT
I'm from Ulsta. Not that one.
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Post by andrewteale on Dec 4, 2014 0:08:29 GMT
I wouldn't have thought a railway station on Shetland would be hugely useful... especially not in helping you get to London. HS4 to link Shetland to Paris via London and Lancashire.... Please don't let dok ruin this thread as well. |
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