23-08-2012, 20:16
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Re: Train Spotters Corner
It's up to 86,539 now and has featured on the BBC news site http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19331185
Martin Lewis from MSE has mentioned it too
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23-08-2012, 22:59
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Re: Train Spotters Corner
its just gone over 91,000 must be biggest growing e petition on the web
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25-08-2012, 16:54
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Re: Train Spotters Corner
120,000 and rising
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25-08-2012, 16:55
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120,000 and rising
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Excellent.
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27-08-2012, 00:55
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Re: Train Spotters Corner
130,000 and rising making it one of the fastest rising petitions on the govt website
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27-08-2012, 07:13
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Re: Train Spotters Corner
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130,000 and rising making it one of the fastest rising petitions on the govt website
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However i expect this Government to do nothing about it otherwise there will need to be some refunds if you get my drift
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27-08-2012, 11:24
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I doubt the goverment will do anything regardless of how many signatures they get unfortunately.
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27-08-2012, 13:10
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Re: Train Spotters Corner
Angela Eagle being a little hypocritical, IMHO, saying that this should not have been awarded when Parliament is in recess, when the East Coast franchise was awarded five years ago around about this time....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6945367.stm
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17-10-2012, 12:18
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17-10-2012, 20:49
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Great photos Ravenheart. Some good shots of different trains there.
Here is one I took the other day:
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17-10-2012, 22:00
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Great pic, is that taken at Leicester Halcyon?
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17-10-2012, 22:42
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Yeah from one of the nearby Bridges overlooking the station.
Are those underground carraiges at the back? I cant quite make it out but think it could be.
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18-10-2012, 06:34
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Some nice old Diesel classics there Raven especially the ones of the mighty Deltic's but do you remember the baby Deltic's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_23
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18-10-2012, 07:25
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Yeah from one of the nearby Bridges overlooking the station.
Are those underground carraiges at the back? I cant quite make it out but think it could be.
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It does look like the new stock for the underground. We used to get them now and then for crew changes at Saltley as it headed down south.
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Don't remember them in service and with them all being scrapped don't think I ever saw one, we might still get to see one again though
http://www.thebabydelticproject.co.uk/
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19-10-2012, 17:48
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Re: Train Spotters Corner
Union of South Africa locomotive to steam into Shildon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19989692
Hoping to see this little beauty next year if all goes well.
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