Recent content by eastwestdivide

Hand dryers on many 158s are beyond feeble. Very narrow sinks in IET small toilets, hard to get your hands under without touching the back and dripping on the floor when your fingertips are under the sensors. Sensors that aren't aligned with the symbols for soap, water, air. Mind you, I also...

Looks to me like there's a ... after the word South, as if the remainder of the DRC description has been truncated.

Often (but not exclusively) found on Northern's Penistone line and Sheffield-Moorthorpe-Leeds services

Belux trains gives you planned compositions, searchable by class etc https://www.beluxtrains.net/

For rail freight combined with river freight and scenery, the Rhine gorge around the Lorelei / Boppard / S of Koblenz isn't bad.

A perfectly toasted teacake. Simple things!

Not the 1960s, but 1956, when my partner's late mother travelled from Bradford W Yorks to Mayrhofen Austria. A booklet from travel company Inghams, with a loose separate Edmonson-style ticket for the last leg Jenbach-Mayrhofen (scan of front and back). I don't know how she got from Bradford to...

Know any big road bridge schemes under way in W or S Yorks?

Aha, didn't find that thread. Thanks.

By chance, I caught Breedon No3 trundling along the Hope Cement branch today. But it wasn't whistling. Did they do something to them, as my recollection of them on Skegness summer trains was a distinct whistle?

Personal experience: I’m prone to seasickness if it’s even mildly rough, on ships and boats of all sizes including my worst ever on a hydrofoil thing in the Bay of Naples, but I was 100% fine on an SRN4. My partner on the very same SRN4 crossing was distinctly green around the gills and she’s...

I’ve been on a Leicester to Ramsgate mystery excursion that went via Dartford, but it came back via Bromley (in 1982/83 I think - I was at Uni and quite annoyed that a mystex took me to home territory). However, growing up spotting in Medway (1976 to mid-80s), it was pretty unusual for...

We had that in the south too! Maybe it's just assumed that it'll be on suitable dishes (perhapsnot the spaghetti and chips).

Thanks for the report. Two designs of fairly elegant overhead line supports in your photos.

Yes, I think it's erroneously placed the crossing on the line towards Tinsley, not the one towards Meadowhall. But if that's the case, why didn't it pick up the tram-trains that use that section, and which show up in the data feeds like RTT? To quote the site's front page, "predictions may be...