Recent content by Walnut_rede

We were on the 10.58 London Bruxelles yesterday, and it was formed by a 374 much to the annoyance of a group who had booked four seats around a table. As it appears the seats were based on a 373 they ended up separated, so they just moved to where there was a table and refused to move when...

Well, it was during the 1980s, if we are talking about the Western Region of BR. I was working for the Reading Division in Western Tower Reading. It happened over a weekend when we went fully fitted. l also recall they managed to leave a train of unfitted wagons in Woodborough loop and I never...

As an inmate of the old Western Region TIC I can just about remember some of our early experiences with LEDs for signalling purposes. The main problems were reliability and the colours not displaying properly, bluish tints I think. However the one piece of LED equipment we found that worked...

The two things I recall about the crew busses was there was an bell push(as on a London bus) which was your only way to signal to the driver from the back, and notices forbidding you to put telegraph poles in the ladder rack, well overhead ladder hole actually, after a fatal accident when they...

Yes in one of the numerous jobs that I attempted during my career with British Rail and beyond l was the stores clerk for Area Manager Bristol in the 80's. There we had a number of pool cars Maestros and one Peugeot. I quite liked the maestros, as my own car was a Morris Minor. The Peugeot was...

I was one of the announcers at Paddington in the late 70s early 80s and every now and again someone would manage to get taken to Old Oak Common depot. Most were a bit embarrassed but seemed to enjoy the experience, through the carriage washer on the way out and usually a cab ride in a locomotive...

However, curiously for this French strike the apparent cause was our competition commission who have put them out of buisiness. Funny old world.