Recent content by daccer

I was in London last week and I thought that it was quite noticeable at how many times graffiti has been painted over by the lineside and had been re-daubed on top of the coverup. I guess its a long term battle that will never be won until there is a general societal change. I think that the...

Standards on the railways are always variable and stations are no different. My experiences are that unmanned or manned isnt necessarily a determining factor when it comes to station presentation. Many unmanned stations have been adopted by stations groups and look a treat. Victorian and...

No way this kind of growth can be achieved without Government intervention which inevitably means the tax payer stumps up somewhere along the way. One thing which has been tried elsewhere is to mandate certain commodities travelling over a certain distance have to use rail for all or part of the...

Do we know fromwhere the aggregate for Chessi gton originated and how it made its way to Willesden, assuming Willesden is a staging point for DCR

Has any more information become available on DCR's plans for the future with regards to increasing their fleet (more 60's from DBC poss) and also possible new flows apart from the one mentioned above from Hackney Yard. There was mention of route learning further up the thread. Also are they or...

little surprised these have survived so long. There has been a bit of a frenzy of scrapping in the recent past with steel prices being so high (iron ore prices are at all time highs).

As we cant get out and about I was hoping locals could let me know if there was currently any work being undertaken at Crewe. I know that when they refurbed the canopies they left the portions at the southern end which are a rusty mess. from some photos ive seen recently these do seemed to have...

Isnt this a justification of the structure set up at privatisation. The stock is owned by a ROSCO who take a commercial risk on it. The ROSCOS obviously did very well with the ex BR stock but it is a competative marketplace now and it seems that new stock can be provided without a massive...

Depending on how far back you want to go in history there are some nice Art Deco examples around such as Leamington Spa and Surbiton. For really quaint and old fashioned you could go out into the sticks in Scotland at Glenfinnan and Upper Tyndrum. In Wales places such as Betwys y Coed retain a...

i believe they are redoing the roof and Network Rail recently purchased the old Brunel building but not sure to what end.

Network Rail have managed to retain their funding for the Control Period and stations continue to be revamped and capacity improved despite demand temporarily disappearing. Glasgow QS is about done, work has started on Gatwick Airport and also on Bristol TM. SMaller stations such as...

Delivering spent ballast to Leicester is an interesting development considering the proximity of then various quarries in the area. I worked at Leicester TOPS in the early 90's and was always surprised that a town the size of Leicester actually generated no railfreight traffic of any sort. The...

For the last couple of Control Periods the have been several major projects being run concurrently by NR. There does however seem to be a dearth of new projects starting up in the new Control Period and not all of this can be put down to HS2 and its temporary suspension. As projects are...

The advent of the RHT and a more enlightened appreciation of railway heritage in general means that there are not nearly as many stations retaining that slightly rundown,wistful and neglected feel. The unpainted parts of Crewe plus the abandoned portions are a reminder of former glories...

They have spent a lot of cash at Padeswood on tickling up the sidings etc and I doubt if they would do that if they were not thinking of a long term use.