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A taxi journey to work last year with a Driver in no fit state to work, he was really struggling to keep his eyes open and kept nodding off. Turning onto the main road, he drove in the dead centre of the road, and on seeing the Headlights of a car coming towards him, quickly swerved to the left...

Hi all. Traincrew depots have two letter abbreviations often seen on Diagrams. Would be interesting to hear what they all are across the UK. Starting off on GTR: Thameslink: Ashford-AD Bedford-BF Brighton-BD Cricklewood-CW Gillingham-GH Horsham-HK Luton-LU Orpington-OR St Albans-1S Three...

…never cancelled tours with low bookings.

Virgin/CrossCountry had a small Traincrew depot at Brighton too. Their Drivers and Train Managers signed the route all the way to Birmingham New Street, via Quarry Lines/Redhill, Selhurst, Balham, Clapham Junction, the West London Line, Acton Wells, Reading, Oxford, Leamington Spa and Coventry...

Yes, Luton and Gillingham Drivers sign it.

Hornsey. Training can and occasionally does take place at Letchworth too.

Was travelling on a charter hauled by a Class 47, and somewhere near what looked like Reading, we overtook another charter train with LSL/Saphos Trains mk1 coaches…hauled by…a pair of Industrial Steam locos. I made a passing comment about preferring the Diesel locomotive on the front to my...

Arrived at Glasgow Central to catch a train…what do I see on the stops? The Hastings DEMU, was it there on a Charter? No, it was part of a Rail200 exhibition. Even stranger, sat alongside it, a pair of GWR 802s, which were about to work a service train down to the West Country!

Exactly this. When I worked on the Platform at London Bridge years ago, in times of serious disruption I remember similar services operated. Can’t exactly remember what the circumstances were behind the running of said services, one occasion it was a 2Fxx (London Bridge-Victoria via Crystal...

Apparently, that tour was almost never going to happen. The original plan in 1986 was in fact to run a DEMU farewell tour to Paris…yes Paris in France. It would have used the train ferry from Dover to Calais and traversed SNCF lines. BR and SNCF were both well up for it, the issue that made it...

Loopy Doughnut Tugging Shedmaster Cwm and Go

Wales & West briefly had a number of Class 101 and 117s inherited around privatisation working local lines in Cornwall until withdrawal quite early on. Part of their collection included one of the coaches from the Chocolate and Cream liveried 117.

Not heard that alarm sound for over 20 years…still as scary sounding now as it was then. There was a period at my Primary School where we had a very bossy Headteacher who was absolutely obsessed with getting the Fire Drills done perfectly. Unfortunately we ended up having about 2, maybe 3 Fire...

My primary school had it. And yes…it was terrifying.

Yes please. Direct link to East Croydon is sorely missed from places like Brockley, Forest Hill, Sydenham etc!