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Indeed, if the FOCs recieved a fraction of the subsidy that TOCs get then they'd be able to take more freight off the roads and stop laying staff off. Also if some of the NR budget was spent on improving freight lines, lengthening loops and run rounds and putting in sidings, rather than...

Can you be signalled in and out of the Down fast(platform 2?) in the Up direction?

I try to hog two seats, preferably 'airline' ones, so that I don't have to look at or communicate with any other human being. I then try to read my paper until I'm overcome with the urge to kill the parents of the little **** running up and down or the suit 'touching base' loudly with their...

I did chuckle at the thread title and you're pretty much spot on there. It's no way to treat anyone! PS. Does she have a boyfriend?

The EMD GA-8 has frame mounted motors with the wheels driven through carden shafts, I'm pretty sure they only have one motor per bogie, making them B-Bs. They have some in Argentina which came into their own during the El Nino floods by being able to work through water up to frame height. The...

You're annoying me now, which has annoyed me, and that annoys me.

Interesting one about 37431, it suffered from a succession of traction motor flashovers, a pal of mine worked at Immingham at the time and if I recall correctly either IM or Donny works changed almost everything relating to it, motors (bogie swap,) TM cables, LVDT and possibly even the...

People who get annoyed by things.

There was a mod required as the crankcase breather was getting clogged up with oil, causing crankcase pressure shut downs, due to being bounced around on NR's finest metals. As you know the power unit has only been used in static locations previously, so this was something new to overcome...

Indeed, I had a few runs with A456 in Greece that you started the thread off with and I've never heard anything as loud, probably never will. Always prefered the sound of the A9101s on the Pelloponese Metre gauge though, fantastic little machines. http://www.rail-videos.net/video/view.php?id=2712

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT34R8NGwMY&feature=related Not Europe, but try this one, sounds awesome and is a bit too much for the mic when it gets close!