Recent content by TomW

"Reduced steam due to fire risk" has been tossed around a hell of a lot with this tour in particular, I assume they're referring to the more leafy areas of Knowsley etc. We're in the midst of a heatwave and I imagine there'd be a lot of dry wood especially round the Broad Green-St Helens area of...

It is, not sure where I got Black 5 from then, unless I'm thinking the August tour. I was about to say the times aren't on RTT so why are they linking it then I clicked on the headcodes, my bad. Also regarding diesel haulage, will the loco just be deadhauled or are they taking it off the...

I'm off to see (and hopefully film) a Black Five running the coast to coast express on Saturday and I'm planning it out so I can see it leave Liverpool in the morning and run back down to Liverpool at night. Seeing as this will be my first standard gauge steam locomotive I've seen since I was...

Nothing has been said as far as I can see, only time will tell.

On my way home today I noticed that no one was being let onto the Northern Line platform at Liverpool Central, all N.Line services seemed to be running (albiet considerably late, as with the Wirral Line services) but nothing has been said on the Merseyrail site, heard talk of the platform being...

There's a guard on Merseyrail's Wirral Line who sounds a bit like Jon Pertwee. On a completely unrelated note I did hear this when I was coming into JLA after a trip to france one year "Passengers should refrain from smoking until they have left the airport, or alternatively stop smoking...

I vaguely remember there being a similar incident that morning (or at some point that week) involving an empty passenger train derailing at Deansgate and all services from Earlestown-Picc/Salford being cancelled, correct me if I'm wrong.