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Recent content by Red_Machine

  1. Red_Machine

    Mark 3s on Chiltern Main Line

    I recently spent a week and a half commuting to Reading from Marlow station via Maidenhead. First Great Western uses Class 165's on that route, and even just spending 20 minutes in one of those things was enough to make me ache. The seats are lacking in padding.
  2. Red_Machine

    Mark 3s on Chiltern Main Line

    So I can only board an uncomfortable DMU if I go from High Wycombe? What a disappontment.
  3. Red_Machine

    Mark 3s on Chiltern Main Line

    I'm planning to travel into London on Sunday 9th August and wanted some advice on how best to time my arrival at the station so that I can get on a Mark 3 carriage instead of one of the DMUs as the seats on those give me backache and would rather avoid them. Plus I have a soft spot for the Mark...
  4. Red_Machine

    Good liveries

    The only trains I ever saw with any regularity growing up were my local franchise's. Their livery was pretty similar to the old BR one, and it just seems like the right livery for a train to me. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/165004_Warwick_Parkway.JPG
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