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The gronk went out to fetch it back and buggered all of us trying to get back to the depot as only the E&C was open took over an hour to get back to the oak last night(this morning!), Anyway class 47's were no better than a 57 as they needed 6 to do the work of 4! and a 57 still has quite a...

They are shunting signals for the trains unloading stone at stockley:wink: they flash 45% to the right to shunt fwd, 45% to the left to set back, and 3 reds to stop

Brentfords?

if we all used googlemaps to drive trains then gawd help us! The curve is a quite a sharp one as you leave acton ML stn in the UP direction:wink:

did a test run the other night looks good, the rivit counters will hate it but.............

There is only one UP relief line to Pad --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Its been up since the steam days, the UR is a blind curve with the 'Whistle' board providing protection for any track workers in Acton cutting:wink:

Haha was jus gonna say the same! RM are well known for their April fools spoofs and it looks like they've fooled you all! consider it extremely unlikely to be true :wink:

If the railgrinder has recently done the track then you'll get an unusual sound as the train moves off

The VP185 is a complete new design:wink: I was involved in a project about 15yr ago now and during a visit to the Paxman site saw an 18 cylinder version on test very impressive! Whilst on my visit i was explained that they were working on an 'electronic' version of both the 12 and 18...

43167/168/169/170 all had Valenta,Mirrless,VP185 then MTU, 4 engine types:wink: as an aside 47901 had 3 engine types, oringinal Sulzer then the 2 Ruston types (16 cylinder then the 12 cylinder)

The shuttle (was driving it all morning yesterday) goes ECS from Pad (0457) to CTA then forms a shuttle to T4, the first 2 Connects also goto T4 but thereafter (0533 onwards) only goto to CTA then ECS to T5. The reason being to protect HEx revenue from T5. The shuttles connect with the HEx...

Don't think Airtrack is dead, its a relatively cheap fix, jus need to sort out crossing problems Staines to Clapham junc', one way is to do a shared service the same as we do with FGW with the Connect, there's a meeting in October more information should come after then, but defo not Dead:wink:

There is no competition with the airlines on that route, the railways won that one years ago and nailed it witht the enhanced timetable a few yrs back, thats why theres no justification for a third runway, the only competition is the edi/glas but even that is falling to the railways now :wink:

We use hayes bay most days (when there's disruption) nowt wrong with it:wink: The UR is bi-dir to AJ so you could in theory run out into Hayes loop change ends and back out down the UR pick up pax on P4 and off you go, xover to DR at AJ to head west:wink: But you'll struggle to get paths and...

Head for Reading West, always good about that time for FLi's plus you'll get all the usual HST/Turbo/Voyagers and some 59's:wink: For food drink etc there's a mac's next to the stn:wink: