Recent content by Rick1984

A Clockwork Orange Co-pilot wouldn't draw me additional carriages despite my prompts

I always wondered why 153376 was painted bright blue and not NR yellow?

It's lucky it derailed where it did as it looks like potentially not could have ended up in the Ouse

You'd think flying on a cushion of air would be nice and smooth, but it's anything but! I've only done the Isle of Wight Hovercraft. The old ones had a very bumpy ride. The newer craft have a higher centre of gravity and a more "wobbly" ride

One of the cranes can be seen towing the re-railed carriage. I take it the other one follows to the point where the carriage is transferred to road? Update: I see in later post a road based crane is lifting them off the track onto a low-loafer

Thomas the Tank Engine meets Breaking Bad

Is not so you can avoid them? As in "That's a Road Chef. I'm not stopping there" Or the opposite

Could you transfer the class 458/4 to Southern and cascade class 387 from GWR using the class 350/2? Allowing strengthening of Southern services and cascading more class 377 to Southeastern. Or would this create an excess?

How heavily loaded are the TfW services in comparison to ScotRail?

The controller makes me think of Airplane!

Love the bins!

Found picture of said kettle

Not on an HST, but my brother has seen someone doing just this

I do think order to seat is the way forward. Decent hot drinks and hot rolls is all you really need

Losing level boarding isn't ideal, but only the only other airport train to offer it is the Elizabeth line from Core Stations, though don't know what the boarding at Heathrow is like