Recent content by bassmike

For all the electrification , most freight traffic seems to be in the hands of diesel class 66's all over the country.

Noticed that the track was still the old-style flimsy bull-head rail with not very substantial looking stops.

Ashford Surrey was origionally Ashford Middx; (still should be--)

Got a big battery though--

Would the Garrard part have any connection with Garrard (Swindon) who manufactured audio equipment and similar (eventually became part of Plessey)?

Ideal solution would be speed controlled points with any speeding tram being sent straight on into the presently disused tunnel just beyond the danger point.

Bit pedantic but canal tunnel at Soton underneath the rail tunnel.

W&C still has no track connection.

Not quite what was done with the M 25 bridge on the Ongar section, or in several places on the northern and piccadilly-----

Just seen pic; of the new footbridge at Debden Central line and am encouraged to see that as far as I can tell ,it seems to have clearance for full-size stock. This is an unusually forward-looking step for these days- anything to do with the use of a surface- gauge Tmm7 track vehicle which had...

They do that to read my water meter--

The southern had return rails in the 4 foot ont the Hayes branch and between Charlton and Woolwich.

Big All Apparently this did happen more than once. I also remember it as I have already said. So why do you disagree? It's quite possible that you never heard of it but it's been confirmed. You say you were there up to about 1980-----probably you were retired when it happened?

I believe that MK1 vehicles have a slightly higher external roof-height than the others?

Mk 1 and Mk 2 coaches have bigger gangway buffer plates than Mk3 but still work ok.