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Just wondering if we could have some kind of general chit chat about cars, a Top Gear thread if you will. What are people driving? pet hates and loves, opinions on cars and other drivers, that kinda thing really. I'll start, currently driving a 1.8 diesel 52 plate 4 door Ford Focus and I...

I generally think us rail enthusiasts are an anti-social bunch, although I'm just wondering how many of us experience a consistent dislike of the vast majority of the human race? I've even noticed many rail enthusiasts dislike other rail enthusiasts. Well as for the vast majority of 'normal...

This question, has probably been asked before buy hey ho, it's a public forum. Anyway how viable would you think the use of HSTs would be for railtours, if any full sets enter preservation? Personally I think there'll be very viable, being RA5, they could do most routes, 125mph capability...

Sheer speculation this, reading about the IPEMU concept and it occurred to me, that should this concept become advanced enough, this could potentially mean that the current system of erecting expensive electrification equipment, may come to an end. If the trains were simply re-charged at...

Leeds / Yorkshire Crossrail Outline Just wondered what the RailUK community would make of my proposal, for what is effectively a Crossrail line for Leeds, in an effort to reduce congestion at Leeds station and to re-organise and revitalise rail services in Yorkshire and the north east in...

Ok so I've started making the Alton to Woking line for Trainz, but I'm wondering what period would be more popular as I've been thinking of setting it either 15 years ago in the twilight of southern slammer operation, or making it present day with 450s operating. What does RUK think anyway...

My girlfriend is currently writing a report on the effectiveness of animal assisted therapies and interventions and she needs some opinions on it. From both Autistic people and the parents of Autistic children. She's created some short questionnaires, I've included the links in this post. By...

Please note I'm studying BTEC level 3 IT. I just need some advice on whether going on to study something like computer science in university would be worth it or whether after college, I should find a job in IT instead. Personally I'd prefer to find a job as I'd like my own economic...

As some of you may know, Rail Simulation is a big hobby of mine, in fact it has over taken my interest in the real railways, for these reasons that: A, you don't have to leave the house and spend money on an overpriced train ticket or shiver your nuts off on the end of a platform. B, it's far...

I'm looking for some details regarding the Network Rail Class 57s, eg I'm wondering what locos they operated and their names that were carried at the time of Network rail operation. Any help would be much appreciated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31023685 I'm thankful I received the majority of my education during the relatively stable period of the previous Labour government (cue wrath of RUKs conservatives). When the goalposts remained 'sort of' stationary. I really wish the UK wouldn't use...

I'm hoping to purchase a Reading to London Zones 1-6 Travel Card on News years eve and I'm planning to travel back to Reading the following morning. Rather than purchasing another travelcard and then a single the following morning, I heard that a day return travel card can in fact be used the...

I'm making some A stock for a well known train sim game, I'm sure you lot can guess! I've got to the stage where I'm sorting out the numbers on the individual cars, so I've got some questions, first of all what were the numbers of the sets allocated to the East London Line between 1997 and...

I'm completely sick of this employer led culture, this is all Thatchers legacy with her 'the managements right to manage' mantra, more like the managements right to exploit. My generation (I'm 20 by the way) is probably one of the most stressed generations, in school we were told our life...

I'm just trying to find some rough details regarding 2-Hap withdrawals, I've always thought they were withdrawn in the early 80s, with some converted to GLVs but I think I've seen pictures of them in NSE livery which suggests they carried on until at least the mid to late 80s. I'm just...

I was platform ending for the first time in months at Crewe quite a while ago and I whilst I was there I came to realisation why I don't platform end that much. Simply because I find the company of a lot of other rail enthusiasts quite unpleasant, please note I didn't say all. Whilst I was at...

Haven't been on this forum in quite a while and haven't started a thread in the UK Railway Discussion section for even longer! Anyway I've got a bit of a gripe to write about, why are enthusiasts so obsessed with the West Midlands? What I mean is everytime I open 'Traction magazine' it has some...

I'm studying level 3 engineering in college at the moment and I'm really stuck on this one question for a bit of coursework, the question goes like this: A workshop guillotine is used to shear a sheet of metal 1.5m across and 1.6mm thick. If a shear force of 840kN is required to shear the...

I was wondering if such a thing as a timetable archive exists, I'm looking for the operating timetables for the GWML between 1994 and 2004, because I plan on making some railworks scenarios. I'm looking for timetables that give the headcodes and any other operating details you wouldn't see...

About 10 days ago I purchased a Hornby 4-VEP in NSE livery from E-hattons. The Unit is DCC fitted, despite my layout being analogue, all I could find on the website was DCC fitted units. Well the VEP has a few problems, it seems to run fine in one direction, but then it simply refuses to run in...