Recent content by AlistairCowell

Might still have opening ceremony tomorrow, as today being a Sunday, but I might be wrong though.

Dreamt last night about pre-2019 ScotRail units (Class 320 in particular) having their vehicle numbers being renumbered in the six-digit series like the new units. Example was 320306: 477904 + 463026 + 477926. It is assumed in that dream that all pre-2015 DMUs and EMUs in the country would have...

After all, Strathclyde Transport orange livered Class 156 did wonder away from the Strathclyde area to places like Stranrear and Newcastle upon Tyne (that's in the Tyne and Wear PTE area). Unit 156502 even went to Utrecht in '89.

It's going to be a long while before InterCity and all regional trains in England are repainted.

I think this is to do AP not being able to licence the 'Virgin' logo, it is surely a protected logo. All of the stock in VT livery within Armstrong Powerhouse don't have that such logo.

You should be getting spares from now withdrawn Class 458/5s, not 458401!

That’s every diesel class in the UK you listed, Though you actually missed out a prototype Class 210 DEMU from the 1980s. A bit of interruption to the Class 222 to explain how UK diesel units work. Don’t we all learn something new everyday.

Actually, nothing's physically damaged, but did leave a big mess that can cause discomfort to some passengers and potentially damage to the train. That man should have been arrested for that.

Had one this morning - dreamt of a subway similar to Glasgow Subway, except it is set in a city on the East Coast. The trains were in green livery, and the station tiles were white, with tunnel areas being brown (just like Glasgow's pre-2011). Later in the same dream, I went to the station...

Nothing worse than getting up on dark winter mornings. It's still dark outside and I've to get up at 7:50am during the week (except Wednesday). The Western Isles and the Shetland Islands get their latest sunrise and earlier sunsets - sunrise at The Western Isles is around 09:15 on 28 December...

As far as I’m aware, some services were also diverted via Coatbridge.

Scotland will certainly won't have the best weather for it, given the moonrise around the end of totality! It is cloudy and were I live, so there is a doubt here.

Looks like you need to login to Facebook to see everything else. I’m actually not allowed to join Facebook or X, but new Class 165/166 DMU would be a good addition. Have to say that the physics (simulation files) are not the best on Kuju Class 166 (slow acceleration), it was default to...

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0qq5nyxn0t

Well, I'm afraid that's the way the world works in this day and age, everybody costs money to live. This country is pretty much the 'Nanny State' by money. And by the way, I had Spag Bol yesterday as well (with garlic bread). :D