Recent content by DM352

One of my pet peeves visiting the UK is often the A64 at Malton. Well built 70mph road and there is often a speed camera van there in the layby where other parts of the road which have not been improved should be the focus. Another is the roads (except Cannock) that have had speed limits...

Roundabouts have their place with busy cross flows but at the risk of going off topic, feel developers put one in on trunk roads as a minimal viable solution vs. a t junction or overpass. This comes along with the speed reductions.A lot of this is talked about on the uk sabre roads site. What...

Would have thought some for freight but this has not worked out well for other surplus units like 321's with them being scrapped. I expect they will be scrapped unless a few get exported abroad. The similar vintage class 81 18 fleet Malaysian ones have about 5 refurbished left in service...

I hope at least the middle A38 roundabout with the Ashbourne road will get sorted as it was at a standstill yesterday before rush hour. The nearby houses boarded up are also still there opposite the park now looking worse for wear. I do prefer rail but this is one road that has needed...

Got two cokes at Smiths at Heathrow Terminal 2 at arrivals for £3.99 each. Is the most expensive ones in a long while and cannot see them closing with their captive market.Next time will drink more water in the plane and give Smiths a miss.

Shorter diesel rolling stock in areas served outside of London once having first gen rolling stock. Granted, those longer first gen trains ran less frequent. Over the top infrastructure rationalisation like the singling that happened mid 80's not limited to the Uckfield and Penistone lines. In...

Probably said somewhere in the last 152 pages when someone at the till paid with Access using the carbon copy forms which took forever. That was pre bar code so checkout lines would be long. Now it is the same time taken when the chip does not work! I also remember those likely non millenium...

Berry Brow rings a bell as the current one is 300m from the original. Think the old one was two platforms and the new single platform built on the down? alignment at a similar time to the 88-89 era singling.

And the parking spots are not big enough for them so they can damage adjacent vehicles when opening doors in parking lots. Though never a fan of 1990-2010 minivans of similar size, they did have sliding doors for back seat passenger who were often kids. Another observation is many big vehicles...

I remember the Buxton site too with the £50k? bridge fund and then as it got built, efforts went to Darley Dale. Around the time, there was a 15 year plan to complete the whole 20 mile project so would have all been done 2001/2 on a sunny day project path. The mood was very upbeat of it...

Looks to be frozen in time of last few months. facebook link newport sims In the Facebook group article, click the comments and there are some pictures of SIMS Newport, assume recent. Not my photos but belong to Gary one of the group contributors. I did not need to log into Facebook to see...

Thanks for clarifying. As probably said by others shame they were scrapped during perhaps the worst time of covid uncertainty. Be nice if BA did Calgary or Edmonton again even if seasonal but get there are challenges with fleet for their current schedules.

Air Canada offer free messaging for Aeroplan members. Most people are respectful using it but did have one person who kept their message Ding on for an overnight flight. At that time I was hoping the WIFI would drop out to the same service BA has! I used to like flying BA but they took off some...

Not sure if said already, but in the past some terminus stations have had lines truncated and the land sold. Quick one off financial win for BR, Netowork rail or Railtrack. However, can be a long term loss with less land for platforms in the station throat area as often narrower plus can be a...

Class 700 comfort - seats feels like sitting on the front door mat. Class 170 speed - takes a while to reach linespeed on semi fast services.