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Please could some-one let me know what train up from the West COuntry carried the number 1A45 in June 1975. Also, please let me know the reporting number of the 11.30 a.m Paddongton - Penzance for May 1980. I photographed 50014 on the last loco-hauled CRL in that month. 50014 was carrying the...

What we are looking at here is how the privatised railway works. Lacking in facilities for getting out of trouble.

Hello Bill EWS, I'm very glad a Didcot chap is here on the Forum. There must be a reunion annually down there? I'm down here in deep Norfolk so I'm not in touch till now with anyone from Didcot. What I think you are remembering about the scrap locos is right in general but wrong in the details...

That is a very peculiar attitude DarloRich. 'A few delays' 'Deal with it'?? Privatisation was brought in to 'deliver a World Class Railway' but 150 minutes late for several trains are just a few delays?

I have no current knowledge of the Great Western Main Line and know nothing about Didcot power station's present status but the route is not there simply to serve the power station but to serve Paddington - Bristol-South Wales-South-west and, I hope, Swindon - Oxford. As to Wantage Road...

William, I have written about 32 books on railways, contributed to railway encyclopedia, university books, written dozens of magazine articles. My drive was - I was interested in my subject. I never went into it for money, well, not primarily, which was just as well, given the financial result...

Mr. Vaughan would like to say that the stations mentioned no longer exist but the railway beside which they once stood in the main line between Didcot and Swindon. Challow was at the 63 3/4 mile post, Uffington at 66 1/2