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I’m pretty sure 305/1s only ever worked the branch before the 315s arrived. Of course the 305/1s were non gangwayed so there may have been a push to replace with gangwayed stock for safety reasons late at night?

Indeed all manufacturers now have UK level boarding trains on the drawing board and Alstom are currently delivering UK close (other than track gauge) DART+ BEMUs to Dublin.

Alstom has an almost UK gauge level floor MU family entering service in Dublin as Dart+ https://www.dartplus.ie/en-ie/projects/dart-fleet testing is underway.

That was how HS1 was built I remember it looking like a road under construction when being built.

Living near the Clacton branch on GA you can always tell the 755s running on the branch (ECS daily to Clacton depot for maintenance) compared to the 720s, the STADLERS horns sound like a donkey being strangled!

There’s the Station Bistro https://www.stationbistro.co.uk/bistro-menu/ at Wymondham which used to be known as the Brief Encounter.

Not quite the same but after devastating East Coast floods in 1953 when much of the LTS route was closed a shuttle service using 306s was run between Stratford and Fenchurch Street using the bay platform at Stratford (4)? which was originally intended for a regular shuttle to Fen St

There’s a summary of the issues on this YouTube channel

I can’t vouch for its accuracy but I found this on line https://www.freemaptools.com/elevation-finder.htm#google_vignette It suggests 95m for the summit of Brentwood bank slightly higher than Elsenham 94m and the eastern portal of the Stansted airport tunnel of 93.6m!

What was the 61 and became the S1 will now become the 51! How to keep your passengers on their toes!

That 2% figure is highly misleading and sadly repeated by both politicians and the media. It comes from UK total journeys that passengers make of which 46% are on foot and 2% by bike. The appropriate figure of journeys that can be made by rail is 9% of the total, with 90% road and 1% air.

Confession time, in the mid 1980s I used act as an occasional courier (on overtime) on charter trains and regularly worked the National Holidays charter on Saturdays from Euston to Carlisle and return. At that time the train was normally formed of the former (MkII) Manchester Pullman set with...

I used INTIS when I worked briefly in the Business Travel section Euston Travel Centre in the mid 1980s and as we served an eclectic bunch of clients (including the BRB) I seem to remember having to hand write lots of destinations as we didn’t have the appropriate stock tickets!

If you look on Real Time Trains from the new timetable (an example here https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:Y09361/2025-05-21/detailed) the stops are in but shown as unadvertised. Indeed the times for the extra stops are already in some trains, I travelled on the 16:42 ex Liv St this...

They’ve been saying that for the last 6-7 years, the original proposals showed trams and word on the street (or council chamber) is that it will be conventional diesel buses as there’s no money for infrastructure for EVs or Hydrogen or other any other type of fancy propulsion, especially as...

Possibly it will be extended until the RTS (“Rapid Transit System”) takes over! Though no one seems to be able share what the RTS will actually deliver (frequencies, vehicle types, through ticketing etc?) and whilst the infrastructure for it is taking shape the operation is to be funded by s106...

Oh happy days did many Liverpool Street Division trips in the 1970s/80s. Highlights include Edinburgh for the tattoo in 1978, 5 different locos 37,47,40,40, same 47,37. Reversals at Liverpool Street the via WAML, joint line to Doncaster, complete with Gresley buffet car doing a roaring trade on...

The norm is 5 cars off peak except when there are special events in London, football matches, the run up to Christmas, though there are the odd exceptions such as the 09:05 and 10:05 ex Clacton.

Such fares were known as ‘Workmens’ fares existed up until 1961 and I believe that LTS and SE had something similar to encourage the use of early trains in the 1980s partly to combat competition from the extensive cheaper commuter coaches that ran from Kent and Essex following bus deregulation.

Also the northern most pair of tracks leaving Liverpool Street are the Slow lines so you couldn’t have two same named pairs of lines adjacent (and accessible) to each other to avoid confusion.