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You may well be right although I believe there is a case for rebuilding some of it and some of it has already been rebuilt albeit purely for heritage purposes, but its a start. Two news items today: 1. Coryton Oil Refinery's owners file for bankruptcy (What? an oil refinery owner filing...

As I have never lived there (but driven through it) and you have, I guess I should agree with your view, but I'll agree to differ and we will see; time will tell. One thing is for certain, the Midsomer Norton and Shillingstone Groups are both doing a superb job in recreating what should have...

The Royal Signals Camp at Blandford is part of DCCIS (Defence College of Comms & Info Systems). The plan to move all Defence Technical Training to MOD St Athan under Metrix, a Private Finance Initiative, was cancelled in October 2010. Current Government policy is to move at least some of the...

Not yet and not for a while I suspect (Silver Street bridge adjacent to the MN station is missing) but progress in recent years has been good and steady. I think it was such a shame that this line was allowed to be virtually destroyed but it is slowly returning to life: witness the excellent...

Thank you Bittern! It's in English but I don't understand it so I'll admit defeat and pass on the 21st Century!

What in the name of all that is sacred is an effing "android device"? All this stuff is just geekdom. All you need is an e-mail address!

Crucial if you want to join the Village People I would have thought.:D

Very slim indeed I would imagine, unless serious commercial sponsorship was to be involved. There is insufficient money to pay for the Police to stop people trashing our cities let alone for something as esoteric as this, however attractive it might seem to some people (the A4s that is, not low...

I'll second that! Actually luck sometimes has quite a lot to do with it; there are times when being in the right company at the right time or talking to the right persons with the right influence can pay dividends for a project like this (personally I haven't experienced it yet!) but I know...

I understand, from the organisation's website, that they are "testing the water" to see if this potentially wallet-emptying scheme has "legs" or "wheels." If there is a market for inside cylinder 4-4-0s which should have been preserved (and one nearly was) then the "Claud" should be a good...

As above, the owner can afford to and something like this refreshes a product to sell to the public, who aren't all enthusiasts. The classic depiction of A4s on posters etc tends to be in the Silver Jubilee livery or in the Garter Blue livery like DONZ/Bittern. Although most people alive today...

An excellent sight at Grantham this morning. Really wonderful. (and that's from a GWR enthusiast!)

I'm sure that the PVR's DMU will be given a good spruce up by the GWR's expert C&W folks and I'm also certain that it shows the PVR in a good and charitable light so well done to the PVR!. Unfortunately coaching stock, including DMUs, don't take kindly to the British wet and cold weather and I...

I believe its meant to look like that.

Laverton Halt closed in March 1960 and has yet to reopen so don't try and get off the DMU there! Indeed, I don't think the service that starts on Saturday goes quite as far as the site of Laverton Halt yet (a run round loop is being constructed there). I don't think the GWSR has any plans to...

A rough estimate would be around £400,000. If you have that then crack on! If I had it I think I might be tempted with another locomotive newbuild.:D

From the latest news on the GWSR website regarding the 2 DMUs now at the GWSR for the Laverton services: "*For those interested in the technicalities, the two Class 117 sets are set 117313 (car no. W51339 pictured) which is privately owned and recently restored; and set 117204, kindly loaned by...

I believe the GWSR's resident DMU is currently sans engines and is in rather a bad way so its likely that the DMU for the Toddington services will be hired in.

Well now, that is a $60,000 question, if only that it depends so much on the what if scenario! Rather like this one: What if the new Defence Technical College at MOD St Athan, a £13.5 Billion 30-year PFI which started its pre-contract work a few years ago was cancelled? Well it has...

My views on this have already been aired so I won't bore people who have clearer crystal balls than I by repeating them. However, I agree that there are 3 S&D projects on parts of the original S&D that are based on firm, currently realistic aims, namely the narrow gauge Gartell Railway, the...