Recent content by timbobean

I have done it a few times, Edinburgh to London and back again. The bike rack is in the seating carriage and is much bigger than the cupboard LNER have on their trains. Hence you will not have your bike trapped behind someone else’s and you will be able to get off at a time of your own choosing...

Agreed

Just for reference, random security checks (someone rubs a moist towel around the boot and inside of the car, which is then fed into some machine to analyse it) are done on cars as you go through the Eurotunnel terminals. I have been “done” a few times. I assume trucks get a more thorough and...

32 was originally the university shuttle. It became 650 (extended to Thannington) in NBC (National Bus Company) days.

So I found a Rail Standard at https://www.rssb.co.uk/-/media/Project/RSSB/RssbWebsite/Documents/Registered/Standards/2021/11/18/10/23/RIS-2453-RST-Iss-2-1.pdf (you need a log on to view). Paragraph 3.2.1 states that the: “numbering rules in Appendix A shall be used for the allocation of a...

Long time lurker here. It seemed to be a rail standard not so long ago that any item of rolling stock had a GB number shown o. The body side, together with an European Vehicle Number (EVN). I note the new class 93 and a few other newish bits of stock do not show it. Is it no longer a...