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I notice that with the current economic climate there is a lot of talk in the industry about life extensions for various types of trains, including the HSTs, up to making them fully RVAR compliant and able to remain in service for quite a few more years. For some reason though the NXEA haul sets...

Without starting a debate on Foxhunting etc, I wonder what people make of this video that someone showed me on youtube? Also wonder if anyone has any personal experiance of these sorts of things. Just to warn it is pretty graphic...

With both the MML and ECML franchises changing hands, I wonder what the future of their named trains is. The MML currently has the Master Cutler, the Robin Hood and the Midland Express, with the GNER having the Flying Scotsman, The Highland Chieftain, The Hull Executive and the Northern Lights...

I've just about had as much as I can take of Virgin Media these last few weeks. On Sunday 3rd the Cable Modem failed, leaving us without internet access. On Monday I rang up to try and get a replacement, and which took nearly half an hour what with being on hold, then trying to get the Indian in...

Intereresting thing I found here http://www.openatc.com/ Its an online flight tracking site which uses ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) data from planes collected by recievers that people have connected up to the system. It can track any flight, anywhere as long as the plane...

I've recently got hold of X-Plane, and have been doing a bit of flying with it. This evening I decided to do a short hop from Norwich to Cardiff with a Saab 2000 I'd just downloaded. I loaded the flight into the FMC, pushed back, started the engines, and on getting clearance taxied to the...

http://video-direct.france3.fr/player.php?id=25 will tomorrow be showing the French attempt to be the world rail speed record live, at 12:55 French time (GMT+2, BST+1).

I've been down in the Isle of Wight for a couple of days, and coming back up on the National Express from London today we passed 08411 on a low loader heading south on the M1 between Junction 20 and 21. Any idea where it might be going? According to an out of date P5 Locos and Coaching stock I...

Since the route was mentioned in another thread, I thought I'd give an update on the St Pancras to Bedford route I'm making. Progress is slow, but is happening. Just to show some of what I've been doing, I've got two shots of Harlington Station, which has the distinction of being the only...

Is anyone else finding the National Rail Enquiries site really irritating at the moment. They have changed something so it's working a lot faster, but if you do a new search it repeats the old search until unless you force it to refresh, and I can't get it to give fares information (it keeps...

Got this from National Rail Enquiries. Anyone know any more about it? Empty passenger train derailment between Arbroath and Aberdeen Time Reported: 19:57 Route Affected: Aberdeen-Arbroath-Edinburgh-London Kings Cross; also Aberdeen-Arbroath-Edinburgh/Glasgow Central-Birmingham New...

Taken from National Rail Enquiries: Level Crossing Incident at Cononley between Skipton and Keighley Time Reported: 25 Apr 14:57 Route Affected: Leeds - Cononley - Skipton - Lancaster - Morecambe; also Leeds - Skipton – Hellifield – Settle – Carlisle;also Bradford Forster Square – Cononley –...

Don Clarke has not only released bugfixes to all the Edinburgh to Aberdeen routes, but also a new run for the BVE 4 HST. They can be found at http://www.gotopcs.net/ , click on the "BVE Routes" link at the side and "BVE 4 Routes" at the bottom.

Dalziel and Pascoe. Monday 13th March & Tuesday 14th March 2006, 9.00pm, BBC ONE Wetherton Wanderers Football Club's celebrations for topping the Premiership are short-lived when their bus crashes into a train, with devastating results. Among the victims is club manager Martin Bendelow. But...