Recent content by Hoodedclaw545

All depends which depot you have got a job at? I worked for HH for 5 years, 66s are dirty, cold in the winter, boiling hot in the summer (I understand that some are now being fitted with Air con) and very very noisy! There could be a lot of van driving, also train preparing and shunting, so at...

Not sure if I'm missing something about the dft proposed plans, however I never noticed anything about the tpe south route Cleethorpes to Manchester airport.

Sorry to say this, if you have a spad with my TOC you can expect to be taken off driving duties for upto 12 months and be expected to jump through hoops to get back driving (spending time with an outside body of physco analysts they check your lifestyle and concentration levels with alsorts of...

Walking up the steps at Padd and Waterloo and hearing class 50s ticking over or even better just catching them as they were fired up! Walking long the sea wall Dawlish on summer Saturdays, great weather with my farther in the 80s, 31s on the Rose Grove, no heat 47s on the rlf trains, Great...

I travel on the TPE south route from time to time and there seems to be alot of talk about Northern rail and TPE joining forces in 2013 any truth? Cos the south route seems to run pretty much on time compared to northern rails Nottingham service which is shocking.