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Is there a site, or existing site with a tool I can't find on the main page that can tell me all the stations I can get to directly, from a particular station, that takes all train operators into consideration? I don't really want to go through numerous train operators time tables!
 
The fucking twats.

The parents of three teenagers who deliberately trashed a model railway exhibition worth £30,000 have been ordered to pay compensation.

The Market Deeping Model Railway Club display was damaged at Welland Academy in Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 18 May.

The boys, and a fourth defendant, shared a bottle of vodka as part of a "pre-exam night out" before going on a "rampage", a court heard.

Lincoln Youth Court heard the youths had deliberately pushed tables over.

The four 16-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted criminal damage.

Three of them were handed 12-month referral orders and their parents were also ordered to pay £500 in compensation.

A fourth boy was told he would be sentenced on 2 September.
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£500 fucking quid.
Boys sentenced for trashing model railway show

On a slightly happier note (although unlikely to bring back some of the hand built stuff that was trashed):

More than £107,000, including a £10,000 donation from model rail enthusiast Sir Rod Stewart, has been raised in a crowdfunding appeal to repair the exhibitions.
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£500 between 3 of them doesn't seem much, but I don't know what the maximum fine allowed under law would be.
Do the parents have much money, are they on benefits. It would be pointless imposing a bigger fine if they have no money
and the boys now have a criminal record.
Doesn't appear fair, but, our judgement may be clouded by emotions!
 
hash tag said:
£500 between 3 of them doesn't seem much, but I don't know what the maximum fine allowed under law would be.
Do the parents have much money, are they on benefits. It would be pointless imposing a bigger fine if they have no money
and the boys now have a criminal record.
Doesn't appear fair, but, our judgement may be clouded by emotions!
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Their actions have caused lasting damage to people so why shouldn't their financial punishment be lasting too?
 
It's a difficult call and I am tempted to agree with you...£107,000 worth of damage
+ thousands upon thousands of hours work
+ stress and compensation for each member
* court costs, police and solicitors...............
 
hash tag said:
£500 between 3 of them doesn't seem much, but I don't know what the maximum fine allowed under law would be.
Do the parents have much money, are they on benefits. It would be pointless imposing a bigger fine if they have no money
and the boys now have a criminal record.
Doesn't appear fair, but, our judgement may be clouded by emotions!
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It's £500 each fwiw and for some reason a 4th boy is not receiving sentence until September.

But..yeah. :(
 
Those sums are paltry when compared to the damage.

But, that crowdfunder raised a phenomenal sum, which *might* have a bearing , or not.
 
The crowdfunder should have sent out the message how much people cared and go tough as opposed to you have been given lots of dosh so that means we do not have to sentence too heavily :facepalm:
 
I noticed this part "The "enormous" amount of money raised would go to a charitable trust that is in the process of being set up, Mr Davies revealed."

And "One of its objectives will be to establish youth projects. By October we could see 60 young people involved in modelling projects they would never have done before," he said. "Peter Davies, chairman of the Market Deeping Model Railway club, said he was glad due process had been followed but it was "right they [the teenagers] make the best use of their future".

Looks like the people who are the victims may see the destruction these boys have caused as a symptom of some wider issues and aren't so quick to write them off?
 
Like it or not, they were given 12 month community orders which is the maximum allowed for the crime.
 
Mumbles274 said:
I noticed this part "The "enormous" amount of money raised would go to a charitable trust that is in the process of being set up, Mr Davies revealed."

And "One of its objectives will be to establish youth projects. By October we could see 60 young people involved in modelling projects they would never have done before," he said. "Peter Davies, chairman of the Market Deeping Model Railway club, said he was glad due process had been followed but it was "right they [the teenagers] make the best use of their future".

Looks like the people who are the victims may see the destruction these boys have caused as a symptom of some wider issues and aren't so quick to write them off?
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Good for them.
 
StoneRoad said:
Missed this, sorry

try the network rail journey planner
Your UK Train Journey Planner - National Rail Enquiries
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unless i'm missing something, that's only good for planning journeys from A to B, and trying all the options for B would take a while.

the way i'm reading it, think cybershot is after something like the alphabetic list of stations you can get to and what times, that gets put up poster size at many stations.

with open data, i'd not be surprised if this doesn't exist on the web somewhere, but i've never noticed it.

real time trains will list all the trains calling at x and their final destination, of course
 
davesgcr said:
We have a hand picked team of saddo ex railway types going for the matinee , with some refreshments somewhere afterwards. Highly reccommended , and the continuation of the event is a marvel of doggedness and dedication.
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yeah, there has been quite a lot of complicated goings on happening behind the scenes ...
 
I saw this little baby this morning steaming past work. I don't ever remember seeing her before, what a beauty. Notice no skirts which were discarded during a renovation.
The Dorset Coast Express
LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa - Wikipedia.

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Went along to MOSI to see the Rocket today. Interesting to see it - but only on display for another couple of days before its shipped to the national railway museum (I think).
 
Puddy_Tat said:
unless northern rail borrow it so they have something better than a pacer...
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I did make that sort of comment to the museum attendant who was doing a talk about it. Along with talking about the Stockton-Darlington Railway compared to the Manchester-Liverpool one. I don't know if the original engine for the S-D RW still exists though - might do somewhere I suppose.

Popped to the demonstration of the cotton mill machines too while I was there - always good to see old-school cotton mills stuff working as it did back in Cottonopolis days. Sadly the lovely Power Hall is closed for a couple of years for refurb, but when they reopen it the steam engines will have steam pretty much all the time which will be brilliant.
 
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