Recent content by Jim Jehosofat

Didn't the announcer at Liverpool Street have a list of excuses each with a number and when a train arrived late they threw a dice for the reason? Double six: Points failure Ilford!

A few changes to First services in Norfolk from 30 August. Services from Attleborough appear to take an extra 15 minutes to get to Norwich with a tour of Hetherset. Details here https://www.firstbus.co.uk/norfolk-suffolk/news-and-service-updates/updates/norfolk-suffolk-service-changes-30th-august

From around 1966 to 1971 I lived in a house that backed on to the railway between Kidbrooke and Eltham Well Hall on the Bexleyheath line to Dartford. I can remember a couple of times when a strange to me diesel unit went past the house towards Dartford, but never saw one coming back. Perhaps it...

That's one hell of a bus transfer!

And how long would it take the tiktok brigade to show off their new hack: sit in a wheelchair and you can travel by train for free!

TSSA: Total Surrender Saves Arguments!

I've been retired for 11 years, but in my time the majority of managers and admin staff were members of the TSSA, Transport Salaried Staff Association.

From my younger days when Whitstable was named Whitstable & Tankerton......

In Central Trains days we'd often display Mystery Excusion between Ely and Norwich. Gatwick Airport was another one.

When I was a boy class 99 were BR ships

How does this work? The bus from Stansted leave much later than the train it connects with. Also earlier this morning there was a post on their site about overunning engineering work at Trouse, as in trousers, and not Trowse. Extract from...

I'm not surprised that they are dealing with this without involving the BTP. Court cases cost time and money, far less expensive to deal with it in house.

At London Charing Cross, sometime in the 80s. "Join the front four coaches only, the part of the train with the lights on."

Bandaranaike International Airport (Colombo, Sri Lanka) seems to have a railway station but no services appear to operate.

Surely the answer to the North Downs rolling stock problem is a third rail Flirt, just like Greater Anglia but with pick up shoes instead of a pantograph. Or am I missing something?