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“That exhaust will clear right up” I’d be surprised if it did, even when they were newish Class 50s could produce an impressive plume of exhaust smoke. When I was a kid spotting on the Western Region main line and these were in regular service we learned not to stand directly above them on the footbridge at the station 😀 They make a great noise going at full chat though.
Party Gas=Ether aka Easy Start (or “Start ya bastard” in Australia). Sprayed into the air intake to encourage reluctant engines to fire up. It was a frivolous humourous remark, I think you’d need unfeasibly large cans for an engine that size 😀
Not enough of the ol’ Party Gas, Class 50 needs two full cans at least 😀
Yes. removed knows how that happened 🙁
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Probably. I know that I’ve copied the OTT URL for the service’s page into the notes field in a calendar entry before travelling, and it still works <checks> a couple of weeks later, although <checks> if I go back further it says “Schedule L15359 was not valid on 2024-03-19”, so I’m guessing they get dumped after a month. Probably a limitation of the Network Rail data/licence.
https://www.opentraintimes.com/ Is quite detailed. Also good for checking how late your train was for Delay Repay purposes, especially as you can bookmark a particular service to refer back to later.
App wise I use Train Track by quatabyte on Android, Train Home by Thomas Thorpe on iOS.
Also realtimetrains.co.uk works well in a mobile browser though they no longer do an app.
I have as it happens although not since <checks> 20th June 2012. I think we just went Hythe - Dungeness - Hythe. Few heritage/preserved lines run a frequent enough timetable for “rover” tickets to make much sense unless you’re going to just ride up and down without stopping. It looks good on the promotional bumf though. Like museums with the ubiquitous “unlimited visits for a whole year” tickets, it sounds good but how many people are really going to make multiple visits?
Is it missing then? 🙂 #sorrynotsorry
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For no better reason than that Liam Proven mentioned it on Mastodon recently and I had an old laptop lying about that met the fairly lowly spec (4gb RAM, 15GB free space, 64 bit processor) and I was bored ☺️ It easily installed on a Packard Bell eadynote TJ65, team smoothly, and send to be a nice useable basic system. For which I’ve no real use already having a Xubuntu desktop & laptop, and a MacBook Pro😀
Welcome to the top of the slippery slope. Won’t be long before you’re digging out an old laptop to install Ghost BSD 😀
Oh come on, everyone knows the correct answer is this one 😀 
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