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  1. alex.hartley

    alex.hartley New Member

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    Hi
    I work for LNER, and a few of us were wondering if you were ever going to do Newcastle to Edinburgh, given the dramatic beauty and historic nature of that route, also the use of class 91 in our special LNER executive livery? That really would be epic
     
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  2. eMAyTeeTee

    eMAyTeeTee Well-Known Member

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    Is this a suggestion? Or is it a question?
     
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  3. jedi247

    jedi247 Well-Known Member

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    Still want a Class 55 Deltic Railtour too, along with some new freight power, such as a Class 68, 60, 67, 56/rebuilt 69, 88, and/or 99. We are getting the Class 70 soon.
     
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  4. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    There's been a few suggestions regarding the scenic end of the East Coast Mainline. The northern section of the ECML would be an excellent line to have set back in the diesel era given some testing gradients. I'd vote for a 1979/80 version when the Deltics still shared front-line services with the then new HSTs.

    That's probably more the sort of thing Just Trains would do but it would require a significant change in their approach of only making routes in the NW of England.
     
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    eMAyTeeTee Well-Known Member

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    They'll run out of NW England eventually
     
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    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    There is that, yes. I've got high hopes for TSW8 :)
     
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    I Think If We Were To Get A New ECML Route It Will Be During The Reveals For TSW7 Like That Spinny Wheel Or Season Of Reveals
     
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    I Think 2019 When LNER Came In So We Can Use The 700,801 And HST As Layers And We Can The Add The Class 91 And The Class 90 Can Also Be Used As A Add-On
     
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    jack#9468 Well-Known Member

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    Can I just ask why you capitalise every word?
     
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    Because It Seems Better To Me And I Prefer It
     
  11. eMAyTeeTee

    eMAyTeeTee Well-Known Member

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    It isn't better for anyone else though, at least not for me. It makes it harder to read
     
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  12. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    A little bit of advice from someone much older and more experienced at this life thing, including 5 years working in Human Resources where we saw some terrible English from English speakers which was an instant "no thank you" even for low-grade platform and cleaning jobs.

    If you write job applications like that you're not going to get many job offers because prospective employers will assume you are poorly educated and/or not very clever. That's just human nature.

    Likewise others, some of whom you'll be hoping to impress, will make the same assumption when dealing with you, why stack the odds against yourself when life is difficult enough?
     
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    ---DMY--- Well-Known Member

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    It must be said that you English do not have rules for using capital letters (and uppercase letters) as clearly defined as in French...

    Cocorico ! :D
     
  14. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    N'importe quoi!
    Both of our languages are constantly evolving as are methods and use of grammar and punctuation.

    I've spent a lot of time on the French island of Corsica where most of the road signs have an incredibly complex punctuation system involving what appear to be random bullet holes around and within anything that's not written in the island's "Corsu" language.
     
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    ---DMY--- Well-Known Member

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    That's true, and besides, what evolves can evolve for better... or for worse...

    Where did you see that French grammar was evolving (I'm talking about the rules) ?
    However, what is true is that there can be liberties with punctuation depending on the desired literary effect.

    Lol, it's a very special form of decoration... :D
     
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  16. Wivenswold

    Wivenswold Well-Known Member

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    I asked my brother-in-law who lived in Paris for years and studied French language there. I asked whether there's as much debate about French grammar as there is amongst English language academics. He said there was, though it's possible it's less evolution and more retrogression back to older forms of French.

    And yes, it's tricky in Corsica. I've used French, Italian and a little Corsu to communicate there. The amount of guns/rifles being openly carried around in the rural areas is always a little unnerving and I'm from a rough part of London.
     
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