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Having done most of the passenger network, there are a few outstanding bits that I really ought to finish off, like: Cumbrian Coast Windermere branch East Grinstead branch Seaford branch Abercynon - Merthyr Maesteg branch Exmouth branch Gunnislake - Bere Alston Coleford Junction -...

Set 21045/21046, which was at Hammersmith, was back at Neasden this morning. Presume that it's been replaced by the 'proper' S7?

Ha ha! Boom boom! :lol::lol::lol:

Exactly. Like Princes William and Charles not being allowed to fly together for security reasons I suspect that Dave and Sam travel separately. A few weeks ago DC was on the Chiltern line en route to Chequers, with his youngest daughter, who he entertained for the entire journey whilst his...

Are http://deaves47.users.btopenworld.com/CRS/CRS0.htm or http://deaves47.users.btopenworld.com/depots/depots1.htm of any help?

Correct.

Bounds Green opened in 1976, to service HSTs. Locos continued to be handled at Finsbury Park until it closed in 1981. Finsbury Park consisted of a diesel running shed, furthest from the main line, with a DMU shed between the 'loco' and the ECML. Coaching stock was stabled and serviced at...

A couple of images of the remains at Crewe Works in 1987:

DB Regio have quite a pool of additional Mark IIIs available, which they have been collecting over the past few years.

Yup. That's another one that I was on. :wink:

A bargain - the same thing will cost you £4 in an M&S Simply Food. :evil:

Either way (and Wikipedia is wrong to include them), classes 165 and 166 were not part of the Networker project. They preceded it. The first Networker design was class 465, followed by class 365, the Networker Express. This was made crystal clear at the time. The correct term for 165s and 166s...

From what I've read, the Government has not made a "U-turn" on the tax at all. They are not scrapping it, they are just amending it in line with what Greggs recommended, to make it more workable. The original proposals were a poorly researched and unworkable farce, the Greggs amendment is a...

A bit O/T also - but, when they were delivered, 165s 001-005 and the three-car units were not fitted with tripcocks and only operated on the Met under those conditions. Eventually, practicality led to the three-car sets being fitted but 001-007 had by that time transferred to the Thames...

By the time that it reached London it also had an a/c failure. Chiltern and NRE were tweeting that passengers might find it preferable to use the 18:10 from Marylebone in preference to the 18:07 Kiddy, due to the lack of a/c.