Recent content by j.crocker355

Noticed something odd.today, west of Didcot by Milton there is a 4 track section but it looks like only the outer tracks are being electrified, ie no 4 way headspan etc but single gantries leaving the middle two tracks unelectrified. Any idea why??? Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

Sitting in the car at a long defunct DIY shed in Plymouth when I was a child while my parents bought DIY stuff.. This was the 80's so there was plenty of NSE livery 50's and various livery's of HST and 37's thundering past on the tracks opposite the car park, it's what got my love for the 37 and...

Milton Park, an industrial estate in Didcot still has parts of the old MOD railway in situ hidden at the back of one of the overflow car parks.. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Reservation for Jeremy Corbyn? ;-) Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Just been musing, if the government woke up one day and decided to "upgrade" the SWR routes out of Waterloo to 25kv AC OHL from the existing DC 3rd rail, how much work would this be compared to say existing OHL projects on the GWML? It got me wondering that's all if one of the reason First/MTR...

I'd have put Plymouth firmly up there, dark dank wet and depressing Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Joking aside, with their acceleration could they replace 159's on Waterloo to Exeter should First MTR consider it? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

By the time it opens, It will likely be called the "Charles" line :-) Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Cholsey and Wallingford? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Oxford Tube Van-hools don't struggle up the gradients on the M40 Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Joking apart I've stayed on a "circular" bus service in Plymouth before with the kids until it comes back round the other side of the road as it's safer than attempting to cross a busy road.. had a family travel card so it's a valid journey for the ticket too. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Trainy MacTrain Face? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

I would say Dockyard and Keyham they are both opposite sides of the bridge..

225mph wonder if Alstom will offer a "TGV UK" variant? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Where are gwr 158's going after the turbo cascade? Could they be used to strengthen existing 159's? Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk