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Station Road / West Leake Road is neither as busy nor as narrow as the above quote would have you believe. It's not even important enough to be a B road, and it is wide enough for a car to pass a bus comfortably. Nevertheless the pavement is narrow and would need thinking about. Pointless train...

It was slightly tongue-in-cheek but only slightly; it was also a genuinely viable suggestion. E.L. has far more people living within a 15 minute walk of the station than most of the other stations on the line, and I believe the restrictions currently in the T&WAO were put in to placate about 3...

I can. Sign at the foot of the stairs saying "ring this number for an accessible taxi to Rushcliffe Halt". Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Phil, drop me a PM if you fancy correcting the running numbers while you're at it (two of those are wrong, can't read the third on your photo). Good work by the way.

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You missed 0-6-0ST 'Robert' aka "68067" which is also close to entering service.

Quite apart from spoiling the atmosphere of the place, I think if you built a 2 coach platform under modern rules you'd only be allowed to stop a 2 coach train at it. No grandfather rights would apply! So your idea doesn't work except for stopping the branch DMU there, and we don't need a...

The train I was on this morning (advertised as fast to St Pancras but actually stopped everywhere) got stuck alongside the sidings at Cricklewood at about 0940 for 15 minutes or so while this crossed into the depot in front of us. And when we eventually reached St Pancras at 1010 there were...

I believe it was found that the buckeye couplings suffered some damage.

You've mis-read that. It says that the dates will be known around now, not that the first date is around now.

I had a memorable evening in Swithland signal box about 3-4 years ago when I was asked to keep the box open past the booked time because of a couple of charters. So we had the regular evening dining train, a separate wedding train and also a special for the DMU group, and a couple of them went...

Don't forget the sole surviving class 48 (albeit rebuilt as a 47).