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THe 17:49 to Worcester Shrub Hill was cancelled yesterday.... There was a delay and the train manager optimistically announced that they had a brake problem and a fitter was attending but he still sounded optomistic that we would still be departing. Then about 10+ minutes later he...

Where is the best way to find the distances (in miles) between stations/passing points on the way out of Paddington? i.e. London Paddington->Ladbroke Grove->Old Oak Common East......Reading.

For the uninitiated(me!), can someone discuss the benifits behind installing axle counters as part of the GWML upgrade. Do these replace the traditonal ways to detect trains or do they provide speed information etc? Are axle counters necessary for one of the forms of ECTMS? Are the counters...

Is there some ongoing issue with FGW HST's losing air reservoir pressure? There have been recent substitutions of some HST services out of Paddington with a lesser train. On train staff have hinted about some issue and the need to re-manufacture some equipment.

There was some interesting discussion in this thread about the 50's and their lives on the GWML. This made interesting reading and I remember reading in David Clough's book about the 50's that when new they had a tractive effort dial and to get the best results for a standing start the drivers...