Recent content by TheHovisKid

Yes, you'd see them heading north through Lancaster mid afternoon, and heading south with a friend later on. I mean, you could try hooking a 390 on the front of a 'liner, but it's not going to fit in the loops anywhere...

Did I read somewhere that the frames for the Type 2s came from Beyer Peacock?

So the need for leisure passengers to have the automatic announcement immediately repeated by the conductor... One of those two announcements is superfluous. I've even heard "as the automated announcement just said....." The grammatical mangling of announcements is a monitored requirement...

I suppose a good example of the difference is the extention on LNWR numbering through to the Patriots. The LNWR numbered their locomotive assets upwards from 1. If an engine wore out and the cost of it was written off, it'd be replaced by a new locomotive bearing the same number. But not to a...

How so? Must have made cornering on a Scot tricky if you're applying that logic!

Because, although used as a colloquialism in some parts of the country, the first two numbers didn't constitute a class element, it's just a serial number starting off from a round number for convenience. Exactly the same as with the unrenumbered diesels, not the renumbered ones... Chalk &...

Although that would depend on whether the system identified the class/subclass from the running number, which given some of the number ranges for subclasses seems less likely? So, is the number just a number with the class number derived from a different field? In any case 55000 for D9000 makes...

I saw the 114 at Lancaster (they weren't common there), and got my last TWPTE Class 143 at Windermere.

Didn't Northern remove those and replace them with a T-Key...

And..... ...it contributes massively to Avanti's Announcement Quotas

Did they turn up?

Infinity x 500 But sideways.

I saw that leave Lancaster on my way to work. Grand, I thought, it'll all be right later when I finish. No. What was I thinking. Of course it won't. I'm not optimistic for tomorrow morning.

Some of the trackwork away from the platforms got a little reprieve during the Britannia Bridge replacement.