@krn @matthewf_ Wasn't this after the Richard Bacon sacking, they were down to two presenters so needed "guests" to fill in?
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Porte Molitor
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Porte Molitor
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Paris, France Katılım Temmuz 2013
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@xcrtixi @JoeStephenson96 That was my first thought when I saw this
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@GJMarshy @MikeWillSee Trains for heads of state is whether they want to make it work. In France, President Hollande did travel by chartered TGV a few times, even though a massive security detail required. President Macron did it once, on unopened high speed line. His spin doctors said "no more"
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@MikeWillSee It was more tongue in cheek as it'd be of little use since there's not much security on the ground! 😂
Still, I think there have been exclusive government trains in the past, pretty sure there was one to Los Alamos in the 40s!
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If I ever win the lottery, I won't tell anyone
But there will be signs...
Lord Miles Official@real_lord_miles
Some baller shit honestly. In the US, you are legally allowed to have your own private railroad car. It costs between $100k-200k but if you want to make it livable, it’ll cost up to $500k. You can call up a special service to hook it up to any Amtrak rail and travel across the country. Amtrak charges $2 per mile. The US even has a dedicated group of owners such as the railroad passenger car alliance (RPCA) and American association of Private Railroad Car Owners (AAPRCO) Very adventure-pilled!
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@krn These sorts of people are v. odd. Lost of variations on a theme. I saw one saying Farningham Road near Swanley should have a new town built around it. No thought as to where the farmland there that is given over to fruit, veg and livestock should go.
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@AndrewBowden @krn Exactly. There's plenty of things wrong with the railway at the moment, without people resorting to old photos for likes on social media.
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@edwardbdart If it's v. short term post Sullivan meltdown, then sort of OK. But fact is their older stuff tends to be in poor state, unlike Transport UK or Go-Ahead London who have a small number of pre-2010 buses in a decent condition.
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@PorteMolitor Think (but not 100%!!) it was taken out of storage to operate the W9 short-term. The route tends to see mostly 08/58/09s, the occasional early Euro5 mixed in also.
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@edwardbdart @AondosooW86655 Good shots. Is the state of the bus unusual for Uno? I know when I've used them they always seem well looked after
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@AondosooW86655 @unoherts @Red_Eagle_Buses @arrivaessex @Sullivanbuses Not one tidy bus in all of those photos. No operator takes pride in their vehicles locally anymore.
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@edwardbdart How much of the 358 did you do? It's such a varied route.
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@JoeStephenson96 I thought the Tesco Express next to work was expensive, until Coop opened a shop just round the corner. Wow! It's worth it on my breaks walking 10 minutes the other way to Waitrose, where the prices aren't anyway near as high!
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@edwardbdart @bernardbomach Good to see, sounds promising. Steve's one of those people in bus industry that is genuinely well-respected.
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@PorteMolitor @bernardbomach He's only got a 10% stake now, two friends of mine own it, hence my presence.
But yes, lots of work coming in and it's going v well.
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Twickenham - Clapham Rails today, an impressive variety as is regular for SWR, with CX64 performing brilliantly as per usual. Great to see a few Tridents, B7s and even a DB300 scattered about in London, an eclectic mix you'd never usually see together inside of the M25...
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@edwardbdart @bernardbomach Great shots. That Scania looks lovely. Good to see Steve's recent-ish venture clearly doing well
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@bernardbomach From what I've seen -
CX64EMS, SN53KHR, SN03EAE, S555HCL, LK04CVL, LJ10CUH, LK56FHR/S, LJ09OJZ, LE04LUX, 3x RATP VHs, few Levantes.
@MikeWillSee I'm actually in Ireland this week, but in Derry. Couple of hours by train or coach, so I'll probably leave it until another time.
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New Video!
This time I'm looking around (and riding the first train from) the absolutely HUGE Belfast Grand Central Station - the newest station in the UK!
youtu.be/SktHPz02x4s
YouTube
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@TeBe_Blade @JoeStephenson96 I genuinely didn't know anyone had any beef with The Major. Who even are these people?
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@JoeStephenson96 NOT a good day for the major. Little do they know you have more disdain for your followers than you do for these people.
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@JoeStephenson96 When did we start referring to keepers as "No 1s". Or is this a public school schoolboy / Athletic journalist thing?
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@WezzRail @TheBenTriesTwit Wow! A "Railway worker" without a sense of humour or irony. I'm going with a "railway manager"
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@krn Yep. The mess that was London Trams / TOL in Croydon was on his watch as TfL commissioner. He didn't handle that well, blurring the lines v. much between London Trams, the TfL subsidiary, and TOL, owned by First, who coincidentally had bought Hendy's bus company in the 1990s
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@krn I suppose if you are transport journalist then big story over next 5 years will be how railway organisation changes. If you make an enemy of one of the key people involved it, it's a bit awkward.
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@krn He always has been. Always managed to ingratiate himself with whichever politcian is in power. I'd be interested to which of the supine railway journalists will be first to break rank and call him out on this
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