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Fresh from overhaul, 60059 worked to Swinden Quarry, North Yorkshire, for re-naming, before working 0Z50 to Tunstead. Seen here at Swinden Quarry http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/7053346695/in/set-72157629395116820/ Another shot at Swinden Quarry...

From RAIL 693 GC has applied for a fourth daily Bradford to London Kings Cross service, albeit not by their usual route... A new 0753 service from Mirfield operates via Bradford Interchange (0830), Leeds (0852), Doncaster (0932) and Kings Cross (1114). The return is a 1608, then Doncsater...

Just a quick question with regards to the lives of some of the fleets used on the Underground... The first is - what stock lasted in service the longest on the LU. This excludes IOW stock and dept stock. The current A Stock is, at its oldest, 52 years old (?) but what about in steam days...

All, Just having a quick thought here. Would it not be best to have a dedicated Manchester Piccadilly to Manchester Airport service??? Excluding Northern slow services Currently, from what I can see, there are roughly : 3tpd ATW services 4tph TPE plus Windermere...

Afternoon, Just a slight area I don't know much about, primarily the workings of Class 50's in BR and NSE days on the GWML, notably on the Paddington to Reading, Didcot and Oxford corridor. From photos i've seen, in BR days they worked services to many destinations on the GWML route...

Morning all, Despite knowing about the 180's currently, I only have basic info of in use by FGW... I know they were orignally ordered by FNW but transfered down, and were used on Bristol Temple Meads and Cardiff Central services before being deployed on Worcester, Exeter, Hereford and...

Afternoon all, Over the weekend of the 8-9 October 2011, the NRM at Shildon held its "Deltic 50" event, with each of the seven remaining Deltic's being on show. Unfortunatly, on the Saturday when I visited, the weather was not at its best, and so, as you will see, the photos are not my...

Afternoon all, A trip on Saturday to the Wensleydale Railway's Diesel Gala. Operating were home based D9516 and 20121 (Ainderby shuttles only), 47715 (thunderbird duties) and 55019, with visiting 25059 from the KWVR, 33109 from ELR and 55002 from the NRM. In the morning, 33109 was...

Afternoon all, Undoubtedly a question that has occurred before, please link with any past threads there may be... I know VXC used to operate to Portsmouth Harbour via Guildford and the PDL, but have seen photos/read reports of these being formed with 47, 158, HST and Vomiter. My...

Afternoon all, This thread is in conjunction with Railworks, but makes more sense to be in this forum. First, what part of the PDL do SWT Class 455's operate on? I've heard that they are banned from operating south of Haslemere, and sometimes operate the Haslemere terminating services. Is this...

Afternoon all, Just a quick question. I'll be in Loughborough on Thursday and i'm wondering of the whereabouts of the Works. Furthermore, what is there to see? I hear there is a 56 and a pair of 92's, are they on view? Cheers.

Afternoon, Having looked on RS.com I see that Thomson are doing the Class 455 for RW. Having enjoyed Thomson's 170, I am looking forward to this model. The obvious route for this is the Portsmouth Direct Line, but my question is, what services would they work??? I hear that they work...

Yes, I know we've had loads of these knocking around at the moment, and i'm unfortunatly having to do one myself... Basically what is First Class like with NXEA from Liverpool Street to Ipswich, with their Class 90 and Mark 3 stock??? The website says not much, apart from some more space...

All, Being in the Wear area with family allowed me to visit the current Out Of Use Sunderland South Docks Branch, which runs from (I can't remember the name of it...) Junction, approx 3 minutes on the train heading towards Seaham from Sunderland into the South Docks. Having walked the...

Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone knows how many diagrams per day there are on these routes: Leeds to Carlisle Leeds to Morecambe/Heysham Leeds to Harrogate and York Thanks

Afternoon, Today I present some Railway Quizes made by myself, using the beauty that is Sporcle. http://www.sporcle.com/games/GNERman/most_used_stations 25 most used stations in the UK. It's hard to get all of them. Put "London" on front of stations that have it in the name...

Afternoon, Am currently trying to make a new route but am having problems with track not being able to turn tight enough. Can this be sorted? Thanks

Long Routes needed to go between Two Stations in same town... Stations used have to TECHNICALLY be in the same town or city... EXCLUDING London Routes... Example... Pontefract Monkhill to Pontefract Baghill Pontefract Monkhill - Moorthorpe - Wakefield Westgate - Pontefract Baghill

Grand Central has applied to the ORR for permission to operate 4 return services from Blackpool North to London Euston and an extra return service from Hartford, starting in 2012. These services would call at Blackpool North, Poulton Le Fylde, Kirkham and Wesham, Preston, Hartford, Tamworth...

http://rail-news.com/2010/08/31/first-grand-central-hst-power-cars-ready-to-leave-brush/ As just reported on GCrailgen, 43080, or should that be 43480, is ready to leave Brush for Kilmarnock, where GC's coaching rake is being refurbed. Final painting of the PC's will happen here. There...