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Have any of you noticed the archways you walk under when you have alighted a E* service at St Pancras? When you come down the travelator to the undercroft and make a u-turn there are the rarely used police desks. You the turn right through archways that you may not have noticed before. These are...

Where does "the north" stop and "the south" begin? Anecdotal evidence says that in terms of inner city areas, I'd say the most grim places I've been through on a train: Sheffield, Rotherham, Wakefield are all classed as "northern". However there are more than a few similarly depressing areas...

Thanks. It is a conceptual schematic of a "TGV" I have on my computer. It includes cross sections in side and plan view of the whole train. It's pretty neat. EDIT: I have one in UK loading gauge as well. Again, it's a conceptual schematic of a train that doesn't exist, but uses TGV systems...

Couldn't resist...

I've got an idea...

Coldest place in the UK is Altnaharra - no railway near there though is there? Where's the closest? Hottest station though is easy: Gravesend, Kent.

One more time: they were INITIALLY restricted to 110. That was later changed to allow 125 running south of Grantham only. They have good capacity and were popular with passengers but there were issues with the longer dwell times compared to mk3 or mk4 stock.

There will be the usual "That's not a Mk3 interior" comments...

I will be watching. I have had one of the "Seconds from disaster" used in a training course before as an instructional video highlighting duty of care in safety critical roles. I find the programs in the past have been well made, clearly written and of high quality, I hope tonights program is...

I disagree - lessons need to be learned from it. That will be the most important thing to add.

East Coast The following alterations will apply: No trains will run between Newcastle and Edinburgh via Berwick-upon-Tweed An hourly service will run between Newcastle and Edinburgh via Carlisle Passengers travelling to / from Morpeth, Alnmouth and Berwick-upon-Tweed are advised to use...

Just don't start on flange lubrication...

£200 will get you a second hand slr, lens and tripod which will be good for night photography but in that range you will not get much and/or it will be of dodgy quality. In short it will be slim pickings. I can recommend a Nikon coolpix P300. It might be a shade over the £200 budget but it...

We've been waiting since Wednesday evening for you, Paul...

If we get a wrong side indication on TVM it is emergency stop time. Not automatic - driver initiated. I assumed it would be same in UK!

Wrong-side signalling failure. EG - pass an AWS ramp with the signal at caution, but you get a "ping" instead.

Possibly - there are SO many HS2 related documents floating around the ether, it's hard to know which ones have been superceded, which ones are correct and which ones were nothing more than speculation to begin with!

Really? I'd rather waste money than time. Money comes and goes, but time - that's just gone. You'll never get it back! Time is far more precious... Whoa - this is getting philosophical. I wonder when Paul Sidorczuk will join in?!

Double deck trains to UIC B or C gauge are fine and good, but of little use for through trains to Glasgow (ones that will be high speed to Manchester, then classic line onwards north) - for these services it will have to be normal UK gauging. Unless there was to be a sub-fleet of trains that...

If these figures are correct, it is virtually identical to a TGV power car axle loading of 17t