Recent content by Nigel Gresley

I think that livery dates from the late 1980s so my guess is you won't find it around today. Just to be clear. Do you want to buy or hire a wagon exactly like this or just a similar one ?

Ronnie Barker also lived in Oxford

My yellow Hornby wagon is a classic which bears the name Saxa Salt, originally a Middlewich company but now much of the production is in Worksop

If you would enjoy a trip on a Feldbahn, then the Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn is not far from Wiesbaden.

The Fermarn Belt Fixed Link will offer a direct route from Hamburg to Copenhagen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link Until then the City Night line offers the experience of being hauled by a rare class EA electric locomotive on the Danish part of the trip from Hamburg...

I travelled in panorama wagon over the Bernina in August. This is a fantastic ride and if you have good weather it will probably be the highlight of your trip. It was so amazing that I didn't notice the lack of a cushion. It was cool in the tunnels but a short sleeved shirt was quite adequate...

This video makes the Talgo system look so simple... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LFIUkcPNM It doesn't explain how the wheels are unlocked and locked in place. How does that work ?

Now I'm very confused as well as being lost in this network of black holes. Since when has Orpington been moved to the epicenter (z1) of the Underground ? In fact it is hard to find a version of the tube map where Orpington is even mentioned, assuming such a place exists. I challenge this...

Oh dear we're back on the Underground again, an unwieldy, sprawling mass which nevertheless comes in handy when trying to travel around the equally unwieldy and sprawling mass that is London. It's so depressing to travel through the claustrophobic depths of the black hole which they call the...

It seems we'll have to learn the Règlement Gaulloise .. http://www.aparisguide.com/maps/metro.htm Tuileries

Congratulations ! You've earned a coffee with your Mornington chocolate croissant !

And now for a great Western desert... Puddington

I see the station names have been baked a bit lately.... White Chocolate Cheesecake Chapel http://london-underground.blogspot.com/2011/10/national-baking-week-tube-map.html

So for London-Berlin-Moscow-Peking-Chicago-New York, we're looking for a bi-mode trainset with automatic gauge changing axles. How many different pantos would it need ? How much diesel fuel ? Should it tilt as well ? Max speed 300Km/Hr ?

Who's going to organise a whip-round to help finance this project ? http://www.interbering.com/