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During the last 100 years the rail industry in this land has had many forms and the wheel has turned full circle [no pun] from individual lines run buy one company [LNWR, GE, LBSC etc] to todays TOC's. What in your opinion was the best set-up during those hundred years. Lines? The Big Four...

Having seen some pictures of this new subsurface stock I quite like the looks of it both exterior and interior. However I think the cab is all wrong. Why, when most drivers are right handed, have they put the TBC on the left? This seems to me to be a no brainer in the same way that the C69...

One thing gets my goat. The geezer who does the ceefax NR reports on the BBC. If this guy talks like he writes he must be the worlds biggest bore. When compiling the report he uses a thousand words when 10 will do. For instance. "Disruption between Liverpool Street and Norwich, between...

Seeing the linking Bakerloo thread brought to mind another link that would have been of benefit. Namely the ELL and the former Northern City[whatever it's called now] Why when they were planning the ELL extension did they not go for a link underground from south of Shoreditch to Moorgate? To...

Now that MS in their wisdom have dumped the excellent first version of movie maker and given us the crap that come with W7 are there any other video editors about that work the same way? Preferably free. :|

Watching Portillo's episode last night about London I was horrified to see what they have done to St Pancras Station. with this Eurostar stuff. I never liked Gilbert Scott's abomination fronting the great arch as it looks like an overblown Gothic public workhouse but the great arch over the...

Looking through this excellent forum and all the comments on all aspects of life nowadays I think the members should all stand for Parliament as I see more common sense in posts on one day than politicians can summon up in a year. [P.S. not taking the **** either]

For years electric rail operators have wanted to have a reliable regenerative brake on their stock. Lines with OH power supply are easily solved but DC lines with rail contact have a problem. This, of course, is what to do with the regen over rail gaps. LTE tried regen for years with the...

In my time on the tube, electrical control on trains was dominated by resistors, contactors, tap changers and wotnot with conventional DC motors. Nowadays I get confused by all the modern guff with bi-polar and all that jargon. Not to mention AC traction motors. How exactly please [in simple...

Seeing the thread about a council turning down a line re-opening got me thinking thus >> IMO councils have too much power and fingers in too many pies. For instance why are councils responsible for street lights, housing, roads, etc? All these things can and should be run by the utility...

Up to now I have had all versions of windows from W98. In my opinion each successive version is worse that it's predecessor. Lots of bloat and unneeded "features" piled in at each re-cast. Windows should just provide the basic OS that makes a computer work. No need to bundle media players...

Now that TfL have control af the former silverlink lines why do they not consolidate them into the subsurface lines if the tube system? Same signals, same method of electrification, same rolling stock etc. Also juice up the Gospel Oak/Barking line for DC too. That way an alternative route would...

I know this thread is not rail oriented but I have Real Player as my default. In the Autorun list I have, there is an item called "TKBell.exe" which is associated with RP. Is this thing dangerous or spyware and how can I get rid of it please?

I don't know if other members have seen this page on the web but I found it fascinating. http://www.railway-technical.com/sigind.shtml [I apologise if this is a repeat thread}

During WW2 when Dad was on the LMS he had a very lucky escape. Signed on at Camden shed and did the preliminaries before proceeding to his allocated engine in the yard. Him and his driver left the shanty and there was a fierce air raid on with shrapnel falling all over the place. So tin hats on...

My Pop was a fireman on the LMS 1938 all through the war until 1947 and had fired most types of loco albeit some in the yard only. He once fired the Turbomotive down from Camden to Euston and told me that she was a good engine when working right, but was a bit of a hungry beast coalwise. He...

Is the streamlined LMS loco at NRM actually steam able:?::?: and runnable?

Right. As we all know there are projects mooted for Crossrail and a high speed line a' la' TGV to the north.. What, in your opinion, would be the best solution for the building of these lines? Should Crossrail be connected to the proposed northern route as well as the GW? In my opinion if...