Recent content by patstonuk

Hi all, I'm Jim, John's son. Me and my mum as well as other family members would just like to say a big thankyou for all the kind words. Dad had an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything related to the railways and I know he truly loved the discussions that he had with like minded folk from all...

Precisely.

Not true.

I rarely comment on here - but I see the usual seemingly paranoid anti-GW/First commentary as well as an equally strange inability by some (including a GW driver?) to appreciate the raison d'être with 5 versus 9 into Cornwall. Why, I wonder, are so many incapable of understanding the intended...

I rather think that is where the OP obtained the news!

How very odd all this fuss about 3+2 seating sounds to someone who travelled every day in 6-a-side compartment stock, then various incarnations of BR EMUs culminating in 4-VEPs. What's the problem, too many fat/loud/smelly people travelling these days? The only issue with the old stuff was...

This thread has caused me to abandon my 'lurking' status on here - even my 'other half' is addicted to that sound!

Just about all steam locos in BR days would emit various 'clink' and 'clunk' noises from the running gear. It's the nature of the beast with so many moving parts both visible and audible.

The final Class 395 delivery ran carrying a commemorative headboard showing the sea route and naming Wallenius Wilhelmsen as the shipper.

Best not hold your breath given the apparent inability of Bombardier to deliver 377/7s to Southern to enable the latter to release those 377/2s.

Or even 37609.:lol:

Workington is a good shout. Until 2001 I was one of the very few guards and drivers there and I don't think it's much different now.

Given that Virgin staff at Carlisle some 15 years ago told a spotter he wasn't allowed to wear a red anorak when near the end of the platform in case he was mistaken for a red 'stop' warning, I'll believe pretty much any nonsense I hear or read these days.

Most 'Up' Class 1 services seemed delayed by a consistent six minutes by the time they arrived at EXD yesterday.

Yet that's pretty much what's happening. When we in Devon and Cornwall comment on a lack of local investment, we are told by the Westminster brigade that we are receiving an improvement in our services courtesy of the rebuilding of Reading station and wiring to Bristol. Right-o.