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The last few batches of 110/140/150 used the same thyristor control as the 151s. The 181s were also thyristor controlled, although only the prototype locos were built before the first 151s with series production following a little later. The 141s were a little different, they too featured a...

Chesterton opened and then closed in 1850, Cambridge North opened on more or less the same site in 2017.

343 and 508 were split up today and are now parked at the country end of Cambridge, where the two 379s were.

Cambridge has the Cupboard and the Gasworks for the loops either side of the station.

Unless they've been changed fairly recently, quite a few stations on the Cambridge - Ipswich line (Dullingham, Newmarket, Thurston and Elmswell from memory) still have Anglia Railways signage.

Those are prettymuch what I would have chosen! Bohemian Rhapsody does make me reach for the mute button, in fact anything by Queen does.

508/501 are the other pair.

I believe Cambridge is one of them.

I've just returned from two weeks in Switzerland, and bar the very occasional sign or sticker that's been overlooked and about 1% of people wearing masks, it was pure 2019 normality. Marvellous!

Whilst I know the OP asked for no metros, Line 2 of the Lausanne Metro is an interesting one as it was actually converted from OHLE to third rail when it was rebuilt from a rack railway in the late 2000s. Are there any other examples of lines being converted from OHLE to third rail rather than...

Without a doubt Stadler. The 755s have made a huge improvement to the rural lines in East Anglia. Their experience in building more bespoke rolling stock for various small (and some larger!) operators in Switzerland gives me high hopes for the new Merseyrail/Glasgow/Tyne & Wear units.

If you do head out to Bonn, I'd recommend going a little further to Königswinter for the Drachenfelsbahn rack railway. It uses 1950s electric railcars with a great view from the top. There's also the choice of either light rail or heavy rail between Bonn and Königswinter so you can make a round...

Something a bit different: The front row 'VIP' seats on MOB trains between Montreux and Zweisimmen in Switzerland.

I had a 150 on the Looe branch on one engine last year. The climb from Coombe Junction to Liskeard in the rain was interesting to say the least!

Except the 20-odd 317s still in service with GA?

Confirmed to be 317719.

I'd say it's actually got a fairly sensible number, on the one hand there's quite a few services which start/terminate there, on the other hand delays and disruption are not uncommon in the area. Sticking with Nordrhein-Westfalen, Altenbeken feels like a shadow of its former self in my view.

Potsdam-Pirschheide, with its disused (but still extant and the line they're situated on still open) high-level platforms. Only a single low-level platform remains in use. Sticking with the Berlin area, Berlin-Schönefeld felt like a station with more platforms than needed even before BER...

There was a line of cement wagons dumped at Cambridge for many years, presumably they were removed as part of the construction of Platforms 7 and 8.

I can't speak for Dresden, but Potsdam definitely still has them! They're pretty easy to find during peak hours. Frankfurt(Oder), Cottbus and Brandenburg still have them, but they're scheduled to be withdrawn from all three over the next couple of years. The Schöneicher Straßenbahn from...