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Regarding the clips, I usually see 1 or 2 per sleeper to hold the rail in the chair but here there are about 16 at a rough guess so clipped to what as many are between the sleepers.

Noticed these yellow painted footways round a siding at Truro and wondered what was the significance of these.

Photographed this train at Mortimer recently and when processing it notices an object laying on the ballast, perhaps having fallen off a train. My eyes were then drawn to what appears to be serrations on the bottom of the rails and wondered what the purpose of these was.

If looking at 3 years ahead, an updated 99 with more powerful diesel would be ideal, if not a rebuild 69 with pantograph. Technology is improving at a very fast rate nowadays with what seemed impossible a few years ago becoming a new normal nowadays. The idea of dropping off a coach for Newquay...

Just to clarify a couple of points, for those quoting everything in the metric system, prior to 1965 virtually everyone used the Imperial system and secondly the Sandstone railway is not Standard Gauge or Cape gauge but 2 foot gauge, so please bear that in mind. 1699892488 According to this...

Hope this is OK as it was made in UK. Assuming it was made in Workington, UK. Would just like to clarify the meaning. BS British Standard, 45 is it the number of the standard or the weight of the rail? 9-22 September 1922? SAR is South African Railways and the location is the Sandstone Railway.

Why don't they stack the containers with doors inwards and adjacent, that would make it a lot more difficult to break in. Or redesign the flats with solid shields across the doors.

In 1880 Beyer Peacock sold three of the Metro B class 4-4-0T locomotives to the SER, possibly for use on the line from New Cross to Shoreditch, or perhaps the line through Ludgate to the west or north. In 1883 the locomotives were sold to the Metropolitan Railway where they became numbers 57-59...

This certainly appears to be the case, I have just found this council document http://www.southend.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/1854/the_leas_conservation_area_appraisal which states that '...area consists mainly of terraced and semi-detached villas built between 1895 and 1910.' So the station...

I have queried the accuracy of this information due to the name Westcliff on sea not appearing until the early 20th century. From an 1880 Ordnance survey map, surveyed in 1873 the terminus at Southend was in an area known as Clifftown. Westcliff station location (built 1895) was south of Hamlet...

Is anyone able to give any history on this station, such as when it was built and what names it has had over the ages. Westcliff itself did not exist on a 1904 ordnance survey map but the station was there, near Hamlet House but not much else. Did it start out as a halt for the Hamlet House...

They have been working some flask trains, sometimes in pairs and sometimes with a class 68. Possibly other combos also.

Prime mover is correct. In a diesel locomotive the engine is the Prime Mover while in an electric locomotive the Power Processor (electrical or electronics circuits which convert the source power to traction power) is the Prime Mover.

Exactly my point. Most of the older Spanish still live in the 1970s and are so stuck-in-the-mud they just will not accept change. That is why the country is still in such a mess. Only a few of the younger ones are changing and it will probably be another generation before they are anywhere near...

UIC recently changed from using 7 digits to calculate the check digit to using 11 to 13, thereby including country code and details. A lot of people are still using the 7 digit calculator which results in the check digit being incorrect. It is mostly only the newer units in Spain which carry...