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181  Sideshoots - associated subjects / News, Help and Assistance / Re: Inline expansion of abbreviations on: March 14, 2021, 16:26:30
Quote from: eXPassenger on March 13, 2021, 17:55:45
Have you switched the test off?  I can find no mouseover events using the latest build of MS Edge.

I have now used Ctrl F5 and it is working, thank you.
182  Sideshoots - associated subjects / News, Help and Assistance / Inline expansion of abbreviations on: March 13, 2021, 17:55:45
Have you switched the test off?  I can find no mouseover events using the latest build of MS Edge.
183  All across the Great Western territory / Active travel: Cyclists and walkers, including how the railways deal with them / Re: Entry Hill Golf Course - Bath Bike Park on: March 01, 2021, 16:57:05
I read the headline and imagined 30 acres of stands for parked bikes.  I have never even seen that in amsterdam.
184  Journey by Journey / Wales local journeys / Re: Bow Street Station (Aberystwyth) opens 14.2.2021 on: February 28, 2021, 17:07:50
It has been pointed out that the house is right on the main road and next door to a builders merchant so it was probably not a rural oasis before the station.
185  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Terrible day in UK rail history 28 February on: February 28, 2021, 16:58:14
I agree a terrible day and my thoughts for all those affected.

After the 2001 crash the driver's insurance company paid out over £20M.  This is the UK▸ (United Kingdom)'s largest car insurance payout.
186  All across the Great Western territory / Looking forward - after Coronavirus to 2045 / Re: Regular commuters: What are your current plans and preferences after lockdown? on: February 28, 2021, 16:51:58
I am also retired so will not respond.  My earlier work pattern did not fit your defaults as it was 3 days a week in Bristol and 2 in London.
187  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture Overseas / Russian diplomats leave North Korea on hand-powered rail trolley on: February 26, 2021, 14:14:51
This story in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/26/russian-diplomats-leave-north-korea-on-hand-powered-rail-trolley states that Russian diplomats had to use a trolley for the last 1K to the border. 

Apparently motive power was provided by the embassy’s third secretary, Vladislav Sorokin.  There is a great picture.
188  All across the Great Western territory / Buses and other ways to travel / Re: Flying taxis to be trialled in Bristol in two years on: February 08, 2021, 22:17:58
I quickly checked the date.
189  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture Overseas / Re: Least Used Station In France on: February 08, 2021, 16:58:29
The Garabit viaduct is one of my favorite structures.
190  All across the Great Western territory / The Wider Picture in the United Kingdom / Re: Alstom and Eversholt to hydrogenate class 321s on: February 02, 2021, 17:11:04
Quote from: Bmblbzzz on February 02, 2021, 11:38:32
Quote from: ellendune on February 01, 2021, 21:48:20
Bio-methane is not so much produced as captured from natural processes that would otherwise have happened and released the gas into the atmosphere. To ensure it is captured, however, the process is often industrialised.
Is that actually the case? I understood most bio-methane is produced from crops grown specifically for the purpose. It's an additional demand which adds to rather than replaces the demand for food crops.
Bio-methane is produced by digestion of organic waste.  Bio-ethanol is produced from crops grown for the specific purpose and is then added to road fuels.
191  Journey by Journey / Shorter journeys in Devon / Re: Okehampton on: January 28, 2021, 17:34:45
Quote from: REVUpminster on January 28, 2021, 13:57:38
Another trainload of sleepers to Okehampton from Westbury on Realtime trains 6G72 last night disappears after Crediton. 1200 tons.

66723 + 66039 to Fairwater Yard. Anybody know where that is?

Between Taunton and Norton Fitzwarren.
192  All across the Great Western territory / Across the West / Re: Problems with the Night Riviera sleeper - December 2014 onwards on: January 27, 2021, 09:49:08
This has been discussed on other forums.  A big issue that has been identified is that compared to a goods train the sleeper has a significant hotel power load.
193  Journey by Journey / London to Reading / Re: The end of an era - or at least a gas holder on: January 25, 2021, 09:13:57
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I'm not sure when the distribution networks were separated off for regulation as a distinct entity, but it must have been before 1996. Coal gas production and storage was I think always local, and the national transmission network only arrived with natural gas. I found an NGN report saying they had a regulatory target to demolish 23 of their 47 remaining holders by 2020

In the South West, and I assume elsewhere, there was an intermediate phase.  Coal based town gas works were closed and replaced by oil based plants at Avonmouth (Seabank) and Plymouth (Breakwater) with a regional gas transmission system.  Seabamk is now a CCGT▸ (Combined Cycle Gas Turbine) power station.
194  Journey by Journey / Chiltern Railways services / Marylebone rail workers 'held lockdown baby shower' at closed station patisserie on: January 19, 2021, 17:17:46

In November, during lockdown, station staff at Marylebone held a non socially distanced baby shower.  How stupid can you get?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55717243
195  Journey by Journey / London to Didcot, Oxford and Banbury / Re: GWR to ?cull? abandoned bikes at Oxford and Didcot on: January 18, 2021, 16:56:43
Quote from: Bmblbzzz on January 18, 2021, 11:39:19
I understand the cull is a more or less annual undertaking, necessary because of the number of bikes abandoned by departing students and tourists. But lockdown really does seem the wrong time for it.

My daughter was at Oxford and every summer the colleges cleared out the abandoned cycles.
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