Recent content by Strathclyder

Admittedly 'bodywork corrosion' was a bit of a broad-brush, but I was thinking of the toilets and cab when I said it.

Sanity is in extremely short supply in this day and age - especially where Trump/MAGA is concerned where it's rarer than unmined Russian Alexandrite - but one has to take these small doses of it when and where they appear. Something else utterly insane will happen to balance this out though...

Indeed. The saying about a cornered rat lashing out applies here I think; throwing anything and everything at the wall to see what, if anything, will stick.

This alone is all the incentive that should be needed for us to continue supporting Ukraine!

Said owner is hardly likely to want to give up their primary source of income, so I very much doubt that they'd even be willing to consider it on that basis alone. It isn't much of a stretch to say that the 334s are now the most reliable of the remaining Coradias/Junipers after a similarly...

I do wonder then how long the site and station will be sat there in limbo, succumbing to nature as the various parties dither and debate it endlessly? A decade or more seems likely. It wouldn't be at all surprising if it was the ground conditions (IE, nasties being left in the ground) and the...

That could very well be feasible and the least worst option when it comes to alternatives in a post-south of Girvan closure scenario, but it would require a level of joined up thinking & operation that hasn't existed between public transport modes - or isn't nearly as widespread as it should be...

Which will be closure south of Girvan at the bare minimum if it comes to actual cutbacks/closures going beyond the current 'slimming down'. As repeatedly noted by yourself and others and as much as it pains me to say it, the current passenger traffic levels south of Girvan could quite easily be...

Cheers for the memory refresher. That's what I remember reading somewhere before, but just couldn't remember the specifics. The 450s truly were Frankenstein units in every sense, more so than any NI/Irish DMU built before or since imho.

Having the self-awareness of a rock is a job requirement in Trump-land after all.

It would've been a no-go zone for at least several days after he left. After all, you need at least some time to get rid of the smell...

The 12th 450 used a written off (accident damaged) 80 class unit's internals, I seem to recall? There were only 11 70 class units, so the 12th 450 had to have gotten it's internals from somewhere.

Martin Loader (hondawander) has a photo of the clean-up/recovery operations of this accident dated two days later (10th March). Grisly stuff and it shows just how close the 86 came to that person's house (much like 66521 at Great Heck ending up in someone's garden 5 years later, demolishing...

Barring Chernobyl, Piper Alpha was the one that sprang to mind most readily when I saw the thread (and before I saw the preference for non-fatal accidents in the opening post). British Airways Flight 5390 which occured on 10th June 1990, the aircraft model involved was a BAC One-Eleven and it...

The Stadler/3rd-gen stock on the Glasgow Subway replacing the Met-Camm/2nd-gen stock comes to mind with light rail/metro. It certainly seems to have gone more smoothly than both the Tyne & Wear and Merseyrail upgrades/replacement programmes, regardless of - or perhaps because of - the Subway's...