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Just a thought, it sounds like the end of the line for Sheffield to Huddersfield after the trials. £15m on infrastructure which I would assume to be the lowering of platform heights to accommodate the lower floors of the trams. Lighter tram type track. Then the trial fails and its uneconomical...

The only place you will see any original Woodhead OHL gantries will be on the Glossop / Hadfield branch out of Manchester Piccadilly, IIRC it caused a lot of headaches for the engineers when the line was upgraded for 25Kv as apart from all the catenary needing replacing all the insulators had to...

In summary then a real railway where the staff took pride in their work, The Job went titsup everyone pulled together worked long hours and got things sorted and the job running again.

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Must alert the punctuation police as well wheres Cxster when you need him :-D:-D:-D

Can't see them being returned to mainline use as a class of 50 they are non standard (like anything that is lower than Class66) - The class 60s are classed as non standard and theres 100 of the still on the rails (not necessarily in working order) and surely it would be more advantageous to run...

With the winds overnight up here Tom half expect the knitting to be down :D:D

Nice shots David Wheres the BSC logos and nameplate then ?????? :twisted::twisted: Or even better the speed stripes and whiskers :lol::lol::lol::lol: see below

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Tom B Wally missed a good afternoon in the pub - the noble forum staff didn't :lol:

East Cast express by Europeanbahn covers Doncaster on the ECML but unfortunately there isnt anything for the Sheffield area. or the cross country lines through Doncaster. Mid East in its original format ran from Kings X - Retford, a new version is under construction, which runs through to York...

Would 1X01 count as well ??????? :lol::lol::lol:

311s were hellfire the electric 105sss

Right lets put mine in :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Classes 08 20 24 25 26 27/0/1/2 31 33/0/1/2 35 37 40 43 44 45 46 47 50 52 53 55 56 58 60 76 77(in Holland, one in UK as a child ) 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 90 91

Courtesy of Ascot and details in this thread http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=16518

Locked - please start a new thread for 2008

Giz's choices and decisions here. Disagree then make your own and post it.... Everyone has there own feelings about what is good and what is crap so lets not have a discussion every time someone slates a piece of stock you like. My personal opinion is anything built before 1985 goes staight...

http://www.biffo.net/biffo/cville/lifemain.htm If your interested in learning a little about the operations of the railway and the way things worked in the 80's, this is a damn good read.

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doubt it Ask Kestral :wink: :wink: