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Hello all, it's been a while since I posted at all. Fatherhood twice over and working hard for a 5 week holiday in Oz doesn't leave me much time to phot, let alone forum, but I thought I'd pop in, have a look around and put some photos up. IMG_7256 by MJ Wilson, on Flickr IMG_7404...

Hello all, now I know some have questioned my sanity with this trip, but it was planned as a birthday day out for my Dad. In the event, as a reward for good behaviour, my eldest son also joined us and at 4 years old only increased the food and drink costs. I'd purchased all tickets that were...

Two friends of mine recently visited Germany and Switzerland for railway trips. Whilst in Switzerland they went up the Gelmerbahn funnicular railway. At it's steepest point it hits 106%!! On the way down he videod the whole trip in 720p and has uploaded it to YouTube. You can find it here -...

With a new fleet being delivered LM have decided to begin the campaign of brainwashing the staff and public about them (only joking). Just thought I'd pass it on. A few things stand out, apart from misuse of apostrophes and capital letters randomly. Mostly it is the claim of similar level of...

Today I cycled out from Lichfield TV to Wychnor viaduct to photogrph a test train. Sadly for me, the test train was the other way round to how I'd like, and the sun disappeared on me for two HSTs (which is why you don't see any here, I didn't shoot them). The one bit of good luck i did have is...

Here's a couple of recent photos. First up is the rare sight of steam once again at New Street, even rarer to be an 'out of region' GWR loco, as 5043 powers out between the sunshine annoyingly http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=5742681773& Then 6E41 snaking it's way across the junctions at Kings...

I went out today on a rare restday off work to see 4492 'Dominion of New Zealand', which we all know is actually 60019 'Bittern' The first shot involved a lot of location scouting at Danzey, before finally deciding to embark on a very treacherous 25ft climb up a tree to get the desired height...

Just had an absolute fail of an explanation for having Advance from New Street on an earlier service than the one travelled on. Cust : "We were on time but we missed the train." Me : "You clearly were not on time, otherwise you would be on the train. Unless you're saying it left early?"...

In another thread I gave you the good of XC regards fleet reliability. No here's something that could be considered bad/ugly. "CrossCountry Off Peak tickets on the Manchester – Bournemouth route and surrounding stations will be changing from 22 May 2011. We are changing the restrictions on...

I know everybody hates them for the noise and being cramped, but Crosscountry's Class 220 fleet set a new average reliability record over the last year, reaching 47,970 miles. They may not be ideal, but I'd rather that reliabilty than being stuck on a failed Class 47 waiting for a Class 56 to...

No doubt the die-hards of the forum shall be horrified, but my Dad has never been on a Pendolino faster than 100, or when tilting - and he actually wants to! With his birthday in July, I decided to look for advances for a day out for him, me and his grandson (free 4yr old). After much looking...

This morning I went out for an engineers train up the Lickey that was meant to be two Class 70s, sadly it was not. But becasue I was so early I managed to shoot the HOBC tackling the mammoth gradient with it's equally mammoth train. I can't imagine there's been any longer train to ever tackle...

If I run late from home to cycle all the way Redditch to New Street I use the train part or all of the way. Today I noticed that despite my front wheel staying firmly still, by the time we reached New Street my wireless computer had logged a 5.1mile journey with a maximum of 59.1mph!! Its fair...

In December I'm going to be very fortunate to have a 5 week family holiday in Australia (split between Sydney and Perth) over Christmas. When going from Sydney to Perth everybody is going to fly, except me, as I'm planning to travel on the Indian Pacific which takes 3 days and 3 nights. I've...

I'm lucky enough to be spending Christmas in Australia for a 5 week break this year. We're going to Sydney first where my father-in-law will be with his two other daughters and partners, and all four of us will be joining them. After New Years the four of us and my father-in-law will all be...

No, I don't meant the question is superb, although I think it's a good question. With the current exception of EMT, are their any operators who offer first class accomodation WITHOUT displaying the recognised yellow line above the windows? I well remember Virgin's disastrous efforts with...

I'm a member of a yahoo group called UK Railway Photography, and suffice to say the work on show here is nothing short of awesome. This year it was decided to compile a 2010 'best of' Album. Each member submitted their favourite 2 shots from 2010, and the book was compiled from there onwards...

I went out to the local Stratford Upon Avon line as LM are testing their 172s down there. Today 172332 was out to play, and somewhat surprisingly, so was the sunshine. I got what I believe to be a lovely shot of the unit near Danzey Green. Link is of course Flickr, but that's a temporary...

Just have to say what a fantastic time I've had on this with only one thing niggling me. With exception of a handful on the route (I mean possibly 2 or 3), all of the left hand curves seem to be canted over the wrong way. It is testament to how superb and accurate BVE/openBVE are that it...

Whilst testing the combination of my modern DSLR and a 30-year-old all manual lens I had an idea. So here's the shots I got from the back cab www.trainpics.net/p69046728.html www.trainpics.net/p69046730.html