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Is a good book and the author, Pat Wallace, was a real gentleman always willing to chat to the spotters on Garrington's Bridge by the banker drivers mess room. Sadly, he died shortly after publication of his book.

Back in the days of 37's on the Lickey, by the time the banked train got RA, there was always a green light, which takes one to Blackwell even if with a restrictive aspect at Pikes Pool. Never saw anything different, although it would be a nightmare for the banker crew if the train needed...

A mystery wrapped up with ... well ... probably a whole load of vodka. Is not as if the Soviets have not got past form on such technology transfers, as seen by reverse-engineering the Boeing B29 into the Tupolov TU4. Certainly the ТЕП70 body shape is very different from Kestrel, yet the overall...

In my professional experience, some landowners can be remarkably, and in some cases I feel deliberately, unaware of their liabilities, and will scream blue murder when it is pointed out to them. Somehow this report does not surprise me

Apparently the Soviet ТЕП70 (TEP70), a Co-Co single section of 2944 kW passenger locomotive, were directly derived from Kestrel. As the ТЕП70 had a fuel saving of 10-12% less than the predecessor ТЕП60, one presumes Kestrel impressed. Believe about 300 were built for use in Central Russian and...

Rylands v Fletcher (1868) still is, I understand, the leading case that establishes a strict liability in tort for nuisance cause to adjacent land, although Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (2003) says that the damage must be reasonably foreseeable. Imagine this is where the...

Stress the tenuous. Whole thing has the feel of corporate backside protecting rather than anything credible.

Indeed. Wonder if, even though for all the reasons given it is impossible to prove, Pizza Express are trying to prove or disprove to have a defence in case of a claim, no matter how tenuous. Are the Met logs sub judice?

Somebody, might have been Kim McGuinness with minders, got on at South Gosforth and were interviewed by BBC Look North on the way to Airport. Anybody boarding T161 was offered a commemorative ticket, fridge magnet, key ring and a Metrocar newsletter. For an organisation that has always seemed...

Just been on T108. And got interviewed by BBC Look North at South Gosforth! Apparently will be some sort of media presentation there when T161 returns from South Hylton at 1150.

Had this a year or so ago. Young shop assistant had to get out the imprinter and looked at it as if it embodied every gremlin known to humanity. Out of compassion, took it from her and did the imprinting myself. Not sure if she felt I was taking over, yet it was clearly the quickest way of...

Thank you … certainly seems to be a solution.

Image is an enlargement from a photo taken in the Stygian depths of St James on the Tyne & Wear Metro, hand held on my Nikon D7200 with 20mm prime lens, so fast aperture. Is everything I expect from a DSLR with a prime lens, as despite the challenging lighting conditions, crisp image with...

No problem about late. Went anyway ... my wife was off to Durham to help with a wedding dress selection and men not welcome, so got myself dropped on en route on basis that having seen and travelled old Metro fleet many times over, time to start on new. Information about M-F very useful. Other...

Are any sets out today please?

Likewise with deciding that a M-EV1 might be a step too far in delicate domestic negotiations. Dusting down the DSLR, despite ... Had my moment at Newcastle. Told not to photo the structure in case I was planning a terrorist attack ... as if a terrorist is going to draw attention to themselves...

When I visited ten years ago, found a footpath that runs alongside the railway on the west, over the river bridge and heading towards the Old Meadow road. Not sure if it is a public right of way, yet was most certainly at the time on the legal side of the fence. Gives this view:

Quite possibly. I plead the vodka and my bumbling command of the Russian language!

Meanwhile, the Russian word for a railway station is вокзал/vauxhall, because apparently that was the station a Russian delegation were taken when railways were a new thing. Or rather, that was what I was told over one too many vodkas when на России (in Russia).

Castle looks like Bamburgh in Northumberland. If so, third rail really has reached further than we thought ...