Recent content by 1VWC

6 car is fine at Kidsgrove, you just have to pull up past the signal to the end of the platform. They may have been dry trains but the punters certainly weren’t!

I've had 142001 and 142096 recently.

Take it from someone who drives them regularly, in passenger service you do not reach a ton on the Crewe line (ECS you can do although it is a slog). The nearest you can get is when not stopping at Goostrey or Chelford - the fastest I’ve got is 95 on 319442. The neutral at Chelford kills quite...

195/331 are currently set up differently re camera timings and require software tweaks. 331 turn off at 13mph and do not turn on until at a stand (or shortly before). 195's the opposite way round. Arguments for both options but I believe are being standardised to 195 option (for now). Useful...

...and why is that exactly? Because they are less competent in doing their job? Because they are spreading vicious rumours about colleagues behind their backs? Because they are defrauding the company? No, simply because they do not have the same beliefs as you. That's what really gets...

A lot more than you, although it's not for discussion on a public forum. Nope. Hertfordshire Railtours was part of FM Rail. The Blue Pullman coaching stock was owned/leased by FM Rail. Everything was part of FM Rail. There was no separate company owning or operating the Blue Pullman in FM...

Hold up everyone, alex57601 is the so called 'expert' once again... :roll:

Quite, and this is the route that PF seem to be going down for a lot of "crank orientated" (as opposed to general day out) tours. The mindset appears to be "If it comes off, great, but if it doesn't then never mind, they'll be back". People will moan and groan until the cows come home, but...

'Thunderbirds are go' as of later this week. Wonder if the staff will have to dress up like KitKat did with Virgin? :lol:

Gone to use the EC wheel lathe.

Project was dropped and its sitting at Long Marston minus a few roof panels and internal bits of kit. Believe the plan was to install a small diesel engine/generator and a bank of batteries - diesel engine when running would charge the batteries. There was a bit on it in LIAR a couple of years ago.

First 66 was 001, delivered to Immingham (as opposed to Newport for all 249 others).

I do hope you had the relevant qualifications to be trackside jonb...

DML/Bombardier/Marcroft have all carried out the work they were contracted to do. Maybe the work (as specified by GC/Sovereign) was scaled back or maybe it wasn't that extensive at all in the first place...the latter statement was made going on a quick shifty round one of the PC's a while back.

The reason they are getting through them so fast is that they are VINYLED not painted. Takes an average of a couple of days from start to finish.