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There is picture of a very early (1969) wooden model of the HST power car with such a set-up on page 12 of "HST Silver Jubilee" by Colin J Marsden.

People often say this, but really? They are (at most) 5 minutes walk apart. Step out of Lime Street and there are (literally) two major theatres, St George's Hall, Walker Art Gallery, Central Library, World Museum. St John's shopping centre is straight across the road (you might think it...

I think you are being unduly pessimistic. I'm hoping for an early-Autumn bash combining regional rovers. A 4 in 8 Northwest and 4 in 8 Scottish looking the most interesting.

Interesting thread. As my holiday plans completely messed up, am now seriously considering doing a simulataneous/consecutive 4 in 8 North West and 4 in 8 Freedom of Scotland, should we be allowed out to play before the nights draw in too much in October. c £230 for 8 days unlimited travel...

Seconded. Trencher's best I've ever had although some philistine members of my family prefer No 1 in Cromer where they fry in oil, and is about half a mile from the station so doesn't qualify anyway.

Interesting thread. I never realised how badly made the Romanian 56's were. Whilst consumer goods produced in the eastern-bloc were notorious for their shodiness (as a command economy couldn't respond to the needs of individual consumers), I always thought that the bigger stuff was done...

Tried one for the first time on Saturday. Arrived into Manchester Victoria under diesel power. Departed 2 minutes later under electric. Generally very impressed although the interior is quite spartan in the style that was started by the class 444 Desiros.

Sunderland isn't a big city, it is a medium sized town which is part of a larger metropolitain borough (of the same name), which includes other towns such as Washington (hence large population). It's univeristy is a low-rated former polytechnic. Whilst its soccer team has a rivalry with...

She is middle-aged, utterly middle-class with an education at grammar school and a Russell Group University. I'm of a similar age and I can't think of anyone I have ever met with that sort of background so completly unable to talk properly.

It was a transparent hedge to try to keep enough remain and leave voters on-side. The proposal to have a second referendum between "remain" and "not-leaving" would have been utterly destructive to civic society - remainers would have boycotted it and the issue would continue dragging on - but I...

A lot of the leave-voters aren't going back to Labour, for all sorts of reasons. No-one interpreted Labour's position at the last election as anything other than remain anyway.

Phillips either needs take elocution lessons or stop affecting that ridiculous accent. Eddie Hughes (Tory MP for Walsall North) has a much more proletarian background, a similar education, and can talk like a normal person. If she wants to have some sort of regional credibility watch videos of...

I can swim with contact lenses and then goggles which I have done when taking the children swimming when they are small. If just ploughing up and down the pool I think I prefer not being able to see well.

One could just give £20 to a good cause then. I don't want to knock your society, and the low-cost rare-track sort of railtour can be quite interesting. But I don't get this plan of staggering from signal to signal inbetween the very frequent all-stations trains, on the country's most boring...

Thanks, I meant Mk2D TSO (I never clocked until now an SO was 1+2 and TSO 2+2 seating). I'mn sure I remember them on Cross-Country train, but perhaps it was unrefurbished Mk2E, and I've got my memories confused with (non aircon) Mk2B on Marches/Transpenine/Cambrian services.