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I've had a few 57-related questions that have been nagging at me brain for a while. Most are likely easily answered, but I thought I'd throw them to this section of the forum as they're mostly historically-leaning (they concern the genesis of the class and their first 9-10 years; Freightliner...

What it says on the tin really. This is a subject that has fascinated me for a long time and was kickstarted by pics of the extended hire-in of preserved Deltic D9000 to Virgin XC, most notably for use on Birmingham - Ramsgate services on summer weekends in 1998 & 1999. Have since found...

My fascination with this subject has been stoked by the 3-car articulated set the LMS outshopped from Derby Works in early 1938 and which saw brief service use in 1939 (image below) and I thought I'd start a thread covering all known examples of diesel/petrol-powered railcars whose conception...

I may or may not being opening a can of worms here... I've been on something of a prototype locomotive kick these last few weeks and I'd thought I'd turn it into a subject for this sub-section of the forum (in my usual haphazard manner of course lol) and I'll be centering it around these two...

Mods/admins, please move this to the correct part of the forum if this is in the wrong section. Stumbled across this during my usual YouTube trawls and thought it was of sufficent interest to share. It's a compliation of various 1st-gen diesel locos & at least two DMUs (mostly Class 40s) at...

Am starting this thread primarily as something of a counterbalance to the Worst Tube Line thread, this is a question that's entirely original and totally hasn't been asked umpteen times already. A bastion of originality, I am lol Bascially what it says in the title. Of course, subsurface and...

Been meaning to start this thread for quite a while as a belated follow-up to my ScotRail slam-door multiple unit thread from late 2021, the main reason being that the surviving ScR 101s were transferred to FNW in the summer of 2000 (not late 1999 as Wikipedia seems to think) after the delivery...

If there's a good enough excuse to start another thread on the Class 303s/311s, I'll use it. ;) Linked below is a small collection of high-quality clips of them (from the BONESS27001 YT channel) at work across the Strathclyde network throughout 2001, their last full year of service. Highlights...

A very subjective question with a whole range of potential answers/debate. Just the sort of question I seem to excel at asking lol Piston, turboprop and jet-powered examples are all eligble. Here are a few of my picks for each propulsion type: Piston The Lockheed Constellation family Boeing...

The above incident has always fascinated me, primarily from how a pair of Class 314s (314208 & 212) were caught in the deluge at Central Low Level, the floodwater nearly completely submerging them at one end of the platform. What I've always wondered about though is how affected Argyle Line...

Split from here. Likely not quite what you have in mind here and not to make you jealous (and apart from anything else, this is OT; my apologies to the mods!), but I saw XH558 two years in a row (2014/2015) at the Scottish Airshow, the latter being her final display in Scotland before her...

(I didn't want to start a new thread on this as I didn't think it warranted it, but if needs be, the mods/admins are welcome to merge it with my Class 303/311 thread from 2020/21) https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/class-303s-311s-memories-favourite-liveries-etc.212490/ The Class 311s are...

Been meaning to put this one together for a while now. No better time to do so than on this dull June morning I think lol Much like Bedford's bus/coach offerings, Ford's range in the same market has long been a source of great fascination to me, despite them all having long since passed into...

A bit of a random topic I know, but the genesis for it comes from yours truly pulling/tearing a back muscle back in December 2020. Of course, it can rightly be argued that a pulled muscle isn't really a serious injury compared to the other back injuries that can be sustained, but speaking from...

This is a topic I've been wanting to cover for a while now, finally got around to it now. Yes, it's yet another entry in my Type History series of threads lol ;) This is a vehicle type that often went under the radar in squadron service, and has virtually completely disappeared apart from a...

Basically what it says on the tin: what were the most unusual/noteworthy diesel loco combinations that ran on the mainline in the BR era? I'll kick things off with this Class 26/56 combo - both in Railfreight two-tone grey with Coal sector markings to boot - at Inveresk, just south of...

Have always wanted to create a thread on these 'slammers'; this thread was created with their operations in the National Express era in mind, but I won't exclude discussion regarding their operations in the latter years of ScotRail under BR as it's kinda unavoidable. These three classes in...

Branching off of my recent PTE liveried units-themed thread, I thought I'd pose this question I've had for a while concerning the PTE livery I'm most familar with: SPT's Carmine/Cream (insert your preferred name for it here lol). And that query is: which unit(s) were the first to recieve it...

It's me again lol Recent discussion on the Preserved stock in PTE livery thread over in Railtours & Preservation ended up bringing forth a few examples of PTE-liveried multiple units on services outwith that PTE's geographical scope, namely Strathclyde PTE Orange/Black-liveried Class 107s on...

Another thread that's been in the 'been meaning to put this up for ages' pile for too long... The Dennis Dominator story, while not quite as well-documented as it's contemporaries at the time of it's conception in the mid/late 70s (Ailsa, Metrobus etc), is still a fascinating one. Thusly, and...