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My first ride in a HST was 43010 / 43012 Swindon - Chippenham 17 August 1976, hard to believe that was 50 years ago!

That sounds very hard to believe, that trains would run completely empty at that time of day! Also hard to believe that commuters would not board a diesel train but would be prepared to wait on the platform for longer to board an electric train instead.

45212 was still at Weymouth this morning.

They are oxygen cylinders, in a later photograph there are also some propane cylinders with them, used for gas cutting.

The linespeed on that section is 45mph, From Yeovil to Yetminster. It would be an improvement if this could be increased.

Having not travelled on LNER for a long time I didn’t realise that they operated this ridiculous system of allowing passengers to reserve seats after the train has started its journey. I thought it was only Cross Country that operated this system.

In the case of the Voyagers it’s all down to the cost of repairing the body after the removal of the nameplates. If a higher quality job was done after the removal of the nameplates and the area repainted, there would have been no evidence there had previously been a nameplate there. This also...

It used to be, also for long tunnels it used to be that driver had to sound the horn at regular intervals while passing through the tunnel. This was removed from the rulebook about 20 years ago.

I don’t think that would be the case, as the tilting action of the APT eliminated the lateral g-force when on bends, so standing on an APT would have been similar to standing on a non tilting train.

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GWR 43172 used to be in remembrance livery.

Why should the railway companies care about net zero, it is the government who are obsessed with net zero, not the railway companies.

There are eight 166s still in FGW blue, although quite soon that number will reduce, as when the refurbishment of the 165s has been completed the 166s will be next in line for refurbishment.

I believe 57803 and 58703 were taken from Stoke to Simms, Newport Docks for scrapping.

Although non standard as far as the 158 fleet is concerned, the Perkins engines fitted to the TFW 158s are the same engines that are fitted to the Turbos. Incidentally FGW, as it was back in the day did have some Perkins engined 158s in the fleet until December 2007, when most of the former...