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Problem with all TV channels is not enough programmes about trains things like Portello are travel programmes

Has the Hastings unit only got one compliant cab? When it came to visit us they turned it in Colchester Town on the East Gate triangle I assume it was allowed to run to Clacton with the back cab leading as it is a low speed line

I like to go to the South of France for holidays. I gave up flying several years ago when I discovered the pleasure of the TGV I love the experience of an upstairs seat rushing through northern France looking at the little villages and the farms, I never read or play with the phone just look out...

When they were doing the runs out of Marylebone. a steamer clipped a chunk out of one of the bridges because tamping raised the line so no one knew about the reduced clearance. There must have been only inches of clearance, as tamping would not make that much difference,, or would it?

I know it was all about max number of seats but the profile of the 720s makes the aisle unacceptably narrow, should have been 2+2 seats I have only been on them off peak, if peak numbers mean all seats in use I would imagine getting along the train to go to the toilet would be elbows-V-hips

Paddington in an episode of the Professionals there are taxis and newspaper vans near the Lawn, a taxi driver shoots a bloke just arrived on a train, class 50 loco Liverpool st before the rebuild taxis ran a one way system in via Primrose st out into Liverpool st up a ramp under the Great...

I always thought C2C was stupid, good old LTS said what it While I am at it could we call the new thing British Railways it is not Great B R we have Scot Rail and the Welsh are doing a local branding

Dont tell anyone, I have just invented a cure. a pressure operated flat brake block mounted behind the front wheel. as soon as any slippage occurs the block is forced onto the rail under pressure to scrape the rail with friction heat, so the rest of the train wheels brake normally Please send...

Thanks everyone I have had loads of McAfee pop ups, as I am under contract with Norton I deleted them all. I thought it was genuine McAfee touting for business as I used them for a couple of years in the distant past

How do steam heat systems work? Not as stupid as it sounds! I know there two pipes brake and steam heat and that it runs through the coaches on the way via radiators under the seats. Where does the steam go? I spend hours watching the Bluebell cam and there is no steam exhaust from the last...

Not been there since pre covid There seemed to be a fair number on the Montpellier-Narbonne route

Promise it was a typing error honest guv,,,,

Could they go to Ilford for repair under some sort of contract. they serviced them for 12 yrs and must know all the tricks to fix the problems.. Or even lend Ilford fitters to EMR to train their staff on the short cuts, they were top of the reliability sets for years they must basically work

Seems to me the people at EMT do not know how to love and care for them when we had them on GE they were year after year the best performing units in the fleet running flat out on the Ipswich and Clactons all day

I am a retired Jobbing lawyer. I got a disputed private parking ticket, almost 2 yrs later they will not take it to court, they maintain empty threats bailiff cumming round etc. I have a viable counter claim for time spent sorting out the basis of their claim " I did not park there " If they...

Seems to me the way forward was not privatization. which as the man with the beard said privatizes the profits and nationalities the losses, one of the experts interviewed said each customer from a failed utility company will cost the new provider £400 and that cost will fall on all or us to...

This place has been an issue for years. The operator should get undercover managers to hang around to see what goes on, then report back to bosses to get it sorted Will GB rail be able to enforce good practice from the contractors?

I feel guilty, I caused a scare, Trainspotting at an unstaffed station. walked up to the far end of the platform I at no time passed the sign at the end . Fast train came past at walking space I thought thats a bit odd, I looked for the restriction signs for engineering work, none Next train...

Glad I did not take O level biology I would have failed, I hope I dont have a cervix hidden away, inside,

Oh dear the stupid old git seems to have got the whole thing wrong!! How many others voted on impulse