Recent content by bigyinn

It is my sad duty to report that Andrew was found dead at his home on Friday 4th September. He was only 55. I have been in touch with the Family who advise that the funeral will be a small family only affair. At this point there is no date for this. In the 80s and 90s he was a particular fan of...

Was travelling from Cardiff to Bristol on 21/08/19. We stopped at Newport where I observed an XC 170 heading west on what I believe was 1V12 15:07 Nottingham to Cardiff dep Newport 18:16. One end was 170 116, the other said 170 113. I only saw the front and rear coaches, no idea how many coaches...

Considering the amount of work already carried out on packaging the gensets etc, I see no reason why a hydrogen powered genset would be much harder to accomodate, given much of the work has already been done for the diesel versions.

The pink looks bloody awful!

As long as they dont expect to be carrying disability scooters! Diesels running over electrified routes is nothing new. I seem to recall Voyagers do birmingham to glasgow runs daily plus there are 185s doing similar from Manchester too. What about all the diesel hauled freight that could be...

Given its only 1 intermediate stop and not massive passenger volumes, coupled with the fact there aren't any spare 450s during the week PLUS its a captive diagram it makes plenty of sense to supply a 158 for the run.

You know NOTHING about me, yet you claim Im a troll? :roll: Grow up! Rail Magazine was well known in the 90's as Liar, from what I can see its still justified. How many magazines do you know of that have published their cover with a back to front picture (a pair of 26's on a service train to...

Rail is notorious for it. Plus liar is an anagram of rail, which you obviously missed.

Rail = Liar

From memory the 377/3s with Southern were originally 375/3s which were then renumbered when the couplers were changed. They appear in Portsmouth pretty much all the time and work the services to Brighton IIRC.