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That was probably the ‘clean’ material which they were able to deposit in the Ardingley Jn triangle, I think they used this to level up the land there. No point paying to send clean material to landfill when you can make use of it.

Ashford Steam Centre is one that comes to mind, although that was BR not NR. Stuff even got scrapped to pay debts, notably the 4DD centre coach.

Landfill tax is to encourage other means of disposal or reuse. The material in the tip wouldn’t have had tax paid when originally deposited as it preceded the introduction of charges. If it had been inert material they may have been able to place it somewhere else on their land and avoided...

Flake deliveries always seem to run early now, I guess the staff know the drill by now and they just hook up and go!

EMS Cape docked at Avonmouth at 14:20 yesterday. A bit strange that they’ve reverted to Avonmouth as I believe the logistics for unloading are a bit more complicated - Portbury deliveries come on road trailers. I wish they’d kept the footpath on the North side of the Avonmouth Bridge when the...

Strange that the article states that costs are passed on to the UK taxpayer, surely the driver’s insurance has to meet the cost? Or is the 12 million/year based on costs that couldn’t be recovered e.g. drivers doing a runner or being uninsured? It’s also worth considering that many bridge...

By the time such a program was completed, vehicle technology would have largely solved the problem at no expense to the railway. 1781332043 It’s not just a problem for road vehicles in the US:

It’s this railtour from Sept 1971: https://www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/70s/710918pg.html

I would imagine they could get two of the three lines back up and running fairly quickly, with a speed limit. How disruptive would that be?

if you’re 50m from the bridge you might as well string a thin wire across (or a laser) and if it’s broken a standard traffic light in front of the bridge changes to red, with an accompanying illuminated sign saying vehicle overheight. Using a regular traffic light will be something a driver...

Those with kids will definitely prefer the DLR, they can’t ‘drive’ the EL trains.

My hazy memory says they were displaced mostly by East Coast HSTs cascaded after electrification. End of an era.

Thank you.

That does look fantastic. Could have happened on the big railway if they’d hung around for a couple more years.

Hi, Please could someone share what is working the 5Z55 Derby RTC - Exeter Riverside today? Thank you.

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Hi, please could someone let me know what’s working 1Q22 Derby RTC to Bristol Kingsland Rd today?

4 x 150 worked this yesterday evening: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y41625/2026-06-07/detailed#allox_id=0 Two units split at Plymouth.

Did they ever run on the branch before closure in the early 70s? Photos I’ve seen of trains in that era have been the Hampshire DEMUs. Would be nice if one of those could visit for a gala!

It was in large-logo style blue but with a small logo when at the Old Oak Common open day in September 2017, my photo above. The re-numbering as 14901 reflects that it was re-engined, a homage to 47901 which was rebuilt with a Ruston engine (“as a test bed for the Class 56 I believe?). I quite...