Recent content by Vlad the Impaler

Simples (as the annnoying advert says), Exeter to Bourno, run over the Romsey-Eastleigh single line, no need to reverse anywhere and also could call at Southampton airport on the way...

Overrunning engineering works on the evergreen project???? Best one (so far) must have been the south ruislip bridge replacement, when the old bridge "declined" to come out......:D Think that was about a four hour overun into the monday morning peak....

The paint on the end of the juice rails, check rails etc is also for the crews of the unimat (and similar machines) in the background in E croydon sidings (Unimats being s&c tampers primarily). Just highlights them for the operators as they tamp through (if viewed from above, everything else...

(Not often agree with something ladydsm posts)... But she is spot on, even if you don't get trampled by the jarvis operators beating a path to the remaining OTM operators door, those that haven't gone wheels up are over staffed as NR has cut back on the work load. They are either cutting...

Oracle, Yes, you are talking about the right one, it is (or was) known as the electric siding (despite being non juice). Think the power station was somewhere near where Toys R us is.

k_a, Thanks for that, thought it was one of them - which reminds me, it was Animal Farm that said "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". Nice to know that quote lives on on the railways (when it comes to rdw allocation by the roster clerks....:twisted::twisted:)...

OT, Please tell that to your oppo's sarf of the river ! It seems to be group think down here, 07's bad, 08's good (was it Brave new world, Animal farm or 1984 that had group think ??? ). No 09's down here (and the arrival of our new matisa(s) seem to be vanishing mirage-like into the...

OT, Haven't done a renewals job in about six months ! Our local renewals depot prefers to do it on the dongle (and hence a compact 08 with alc), which rules out me and my beloved 07's . Whilst at the start of this "famine" I fretted about missing the buzz of being like a demented...

OT, V value file on a dongle (probably with the rest of the scheme on there as well) , luxury as they say :). (what did Harold McMillan say to the masses years ago, "You've never had so good " ???) Much more fun with the transition(s) (if theres a rad change part way along the curve)...

Always wondered what Sidewear actually was!! (just keep seeing the SW markings when out mashing the sleepers and never bothered to ask, gathered from its name it was wear on the side of rails, but did not know its implications!!) Cheers V

Bloomin' Flash Harrys whizzing up and down the fasts all day.:D We normally get stuck on the slows (invariabley behind an all shacks chav mover) unless its late at night or they just want rid off us :) V

Ta for that, so looks like Mega Bucks charged to NR, Spot hire for a a couple of tramms to go de-icing would be (relatively) small change (even at short notice rates) :D Trains run, passengers get there, NR saves a large fortune on delay penalties etc. Simples! Everyones happy (apart...

Same manager (or the one that decreed the MPV's had to be collectively serviced) also presumabley thought the ice and snow would obligingly stay away until NR's MPV were ready to roll again. NR Wessex/Kent/Sussex could have always turned to their local OTM provider, whose TRAMMS (sort of old...

Ah yes, but was a it red 66, or FL 66/6???? If it was a 6, then AIUI, (hopefully a 66 jock will correct me if wrong), its regeared for lower speed and better tractive effort, which would bring it nearer to a 60 in terms of grunt?? V

For you to put that OT, must be bad (having read your views on NR elsewhere!! :D). Won't bother seeing if they want any tamper operators then!!