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That's a very fair point! Light wood effect would go very nicely in there.

Personally I'd much prefer well cleaned lino to a grotty, stained carpet. I'm yet to see any regular service train with a carpet that doesn't look utterly revolting after a few weeks of use!

Indeed. Although, would a Newton Aycliffe set-up technically qualify?!

Amtrak stuff is huge, isn't it? You might need two 800s stacked on top of one another :D More seriously, whatever they buy will be American, surely?

Stripey, or GatEx?

Any Photoshop wizards fancy doing a few 'what if' modern image Class 41 mockups? Might be interesting :D If it had retained that design into squadron service I predict that we'd have seen the lower screen panelled over and conventional light clusters appear. I wonder whether the things would...

I agree that the 41 is not a pretty beast, it looks decades away from the 43!

I was similarly surprised, however the documentary very clearly stated that Sir Kenneth was originally engaged only to design a livery for the BR-designed Class 41 prototype, but went on to redesign the whole front end of his own accord, and successfully pitched his vision to the BR men. This...

So HSTs, it is fully expected, will be granted an exemption after 2020 for elements of PRM requirements they cannot meet including toilets, yet the Welsh DMU fleet will simply be 'compliant' by having them locked out? Hardly seems fair!

Does the court not have the ability to check your employment status; indeed don't they ask you that prior to sentencing etc?

'Before 2020', that's gonna be tight.

Ah, I read 'plug door coaches' and thought somehow they'd ended up going Chiltern style!

Are SR not having slidey doors then? I really must pay attention!

Ah, it's just a lack of a space then, wibble indeed! I did think it was a curious tale! We have to include a daily dribble quota of course :D Personally I don't know why they didn't just use the same doors as 442s.... (runs for cover :lol::p)

I wonder would the fine have been less had the child involved not come so close to serious injury? I recall, if the reports were entirely accurate, that the boy's mother essentially dragged him up off the bogie. Presumably this was frighteningly close to being a potential fatality. Does the...

Stagecoach are self-insured, as with most of the large groups, and a PR piece was made of the decision to repair the vehicle. It very definitely received special treatment because of its status. It's worth pointing out that the bus was a one-off ordered specifically to replace the bombing...

Surely the ideal punishment here would have been a community service order requiring the offending scumbags to supply free labour back to the railway? Nothing as exciting as playing trains obviously, but every operating saturday and sunday cleaning toilets and sweeping a platform would seem...

Surely 66088 is quite similar to 66140? :D

Surely Northern will be somewhere near the front of the queue, even if just for a 'Pacers start replacement' headline or something. Or, as above, ATW.

On something like VTEC it makes a lot of sense, being a proper long distance, intercity run with plenty of leisure traffic. Weekdays on SWR it just seems a rather strange offering. Alas, we'll see how it fares!