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Old 23-08-2012, 21:16   #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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Old 23-08-2012, 23:59   #17
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its just gone over 91,000 must be biggest growing e petition on the web
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Old 25-08-2012, 17:54   #18
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120,000 and rising
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120,000 and rising
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130,000 and rising making it one of the fastest rising petitions on the govt website
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130,000 and rising making it one of the fastest rising petitions on the govt website
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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I doubt the goverment will do anything regardless of how many signatures they get unfortunately.
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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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I've been a right ned of late

Pics from SVR Diesel Gala

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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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Great pic, is that taken at Leicester Halcyon?
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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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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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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.
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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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
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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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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