Recent content by Robson

Further testing has been postponed until mid April. The sets have underfloor diesels with alternators supplying power to electric motors. Cars 1, 3, 4 and 6 are diesel powered while cars 2 and 5 carry all the electrical gear. Each bogie is reportedly driven on one axle only. The fuel tanks...

Ch4's "Abandoned Railways From Above" https://www.channel4.com/programmes/abandoned-railways-from-above

'The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard' is quite good. Several episodes are on youtube: The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard The series has a youtube spinoff called "Piglet Chats" starring Paul Middleton, the NYMR's Traction and Rolling Stock Manager. Paul Middleton also stars in two...

One of the better series, but needs subtitles with some of the strong Scottish accents. ;)

A NSW Trainlink CAF 6-car R set was under test last night Wednesday 12th Thursday 13th March between Denistone and Epping. The diesel loco used to haul the R Set to the possession area was 42 year old Alco 8049 owner by SSR. Attached are a few pics I took. Enjoy. Rob. p.s. A video of the...

There's a click bait trailer for Nightsleeper here: Not rail related but does anyone know what movies the Joe Cole scenes are from (up to 2:28)? That is the car chase and bridge pier explosions. Don't bother watching after that. Nothing new despite the endless talk fest.

Nice work RacsoMoquette. As an aside, these Youtube videos on the history of the London Transport moquette may be of interest: The Londonist (with Andrew Martin) - A Brief History of Moquette Geoff Marshall - Meet The Tube Moquette Designer: The Londonist (with Geoff Marshall) - Which...

In 2005 a series of railway films were released on VHS (and later on DVD) under the combined title of Classic Steam Train Collection. There were 8 DVDs. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/243553-classic-steam-train-collection I have been updating the entry on hhttps://www.themoviedb.org/ with...

The Channel 5 documentary "Going Loco" (televised around Nov 1999) on the unreliability of British passenger trains after privatisation, made reference to a complaints web site http://www.delayed.net run by a internet consultant Jason Finch. Before that he had a sight http://www.gner.net...