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GWR are retaining their 150/2s, nearly all of which are now GWR green apart from 2 or 3 still in FGW blue... GWR's 150/1s are all heading to Northern and are all still in FGW blue... (not sure if the fate of 125/925 and 126/926 and their orphan 150/2 centre cars has been decided... see post...

It's been my perception and understanding that SRPS have had a close and co-operative working relationship with WCRC, with regards to rolling stock. WCRC providing motive power for empty stock moves... And SRPS hiring carriages to WCRC when their own fleet has been fully deployed, ie at the...

It seems that the year BBMS was taken over by Ribble was 1967. I have no personal recollections of any of this since I was only 3 in 1967. But poking about on the internet brings up some interesting snippets... So yes, the Atlantean ex-demonstrator that BBMS had at that time was 661KTJ, a...

Bamber Bridge Motor Services? BBMS, with its small but noteworthy and handsomely liveried red/black/white fleet which apparently operated into Tithebarn Street... Not sure of the exact year in the 2nd half of the 60s, but I think by 1969 they had been absorbed into/taken over by Ribble...

Fishergate Centre..? There's a danger of overstating the extent to which the presence of the Fishergate Centre may have shifted the centre of gravity significantly towards the railway station. Yes, it has provided a beneficial draw at one end of what is quite a lengthy main shopping street...

SRT... State Railway of Thailand..? Maybe they'd be in the market for perhaps a 'ground-breaking', 'state-of-the-art', 'future-proofed', aluminium-bodied, UK-built 'train of tomorrow' capable of going at 60mph..? Possibly painted up in a retro Regional Railways inspired livery? Or maybe even...

Maybe because that simply isn't the message that Network Rail would want to put out... In view of the fact that trees disrupt the stability of railway formations (see previous comments in this thread)... And in view of the massive amount of tree clearance and cutting-side and embankment...

Oh right. Which from memory were delivered to Thailand in pretty much a straight copy of the original Regional Railways Sprinter Express livery, as per the spare bodyshell visible alongside the 230 test track at Long Marston..

Have to admit to having been slightly puzzled by the earlier reference to 210s and its relevance... being as how, as 61653 observes, 210s were straight diesel-electrics, and GMPTE's proposed plan for a kind of 210-derived electro-diesel bi-mode dual-voltage hybrid is lost in the mists of faded...

Difficult to incorporate reply quotes in replies on this phone.. but, with regard to the moquette in 3083... I have no first hand personal experience of the vehicle.. just pics posted online.. and somewhat hazy memories of the types of moquette still to be found in use on various types of...

Different cloth. Seem to recall that one as being a flat-weave cloth... Whereas the moquette referred to earlier was a combination cut-pile and uncut-pile in a checquer-board type pattern (of a type once produced by the many years defunct British Furtex company, I believe from memory).

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Regarding that orange moquette in W3083... I seem to recall encountering that in declassified 1st saloons in 1st generation dmus in the early 1980s..? So presumably was a standard issue BR moquette for at least certain applications of 1st class seating of the period (early 70s?, late 60s?)...

And if we're talking about other intriguing comparable/comparative experimental builds/prototypes.. how about the 1957 build of 12 experimental Mk1 prototypes built by Doncaster, Cravens, BRCW, Gloucester RCW, and another (Pressed Steel?)..? These included FOs numbered 3081-4.. one of which...

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I believe also that the prototype Mk2 vehicle, FK 13252, ended its BR days, like the XP64 stock, on WR secondary services around the Wessex/West of England/S.Wales area, so presumably/probably working alongside the XP64 stock at this time? And apparently withdrawn around the same time too. The...

The XP64 stock was built at Derby Carriage Works, and was in reality Mk1-based but with experimental design features incorporated as add-ons for trial. The prototype Mk2 was being developed and built at Swindon Works at the same time, and apparently owed much of its structural design to the...

W&S was an open-access joint venture between John Laing plc (also involved with Chiltern Railways) and Renaissance Trains (also involved with Hull Trains), and ran from 2008 to 2011. John Laing plc sold its rail operations to DB in early 2008, actually before commencement of W&S running...

Here's the full quote :- What is your business low point? "I spent nine months working in a startup rail operator called Wrexham & Shropshire. By the time I joined, it was already seriously struggling and ultimately didn't survive. It really emphasised the importance of building a sustainable...

In this month's (March) issue of B24/7 (www.bristol247.com), a free monthly magazine of things happening in Bristol, in the Business section there's a Q&A-type interview/profile ('If I Knew Then...') of Sn-ap co-founder Thomas Ableman. No idea if it's available online, and I wouldn't be able...