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Has anyone else been failing to access the National Preservation forum successfully in the last couple of days, or is it just me? I was getting "502 - Bad Gateway" when I tried. I'm not aware of any changes on my machine that might have altered my access ability. (Curiously, yesterday I...

Erm - different gauge nowadays! The ex-Fairbourne locos which are now based at Kirklees Light Railway (Katie/Sian) were from pre-gauge conversion.

This is at the eastern end of Horsefalls Wood, approaching Rock Point from the Ravenglass direction (between Murthwaite Halt and Irton Road Station) - unfortunately the most inaccessible part of the line by any means other than train.

No, neither still do.

The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is now open daily. However there are some Covid-related constraints at present (pre-booking required, all intermediate stations closed etc.) See the website for details.

Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway intends reopening on 27 April as long as Boris's roadmap dates don't slip. Website For the time being, it will be with the same limitations as last summer/autumn.

Yes - St Bees to Whitehaven too. At Whitehaven, the token is collected by train crew from/returned to a remote (from the signal box) machine in a cabinet on the through platform at the tunnel end.

1976, not 1977.

Nobody in this thread has yet mentioned the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn in Switzerland which has one track approaching it's Zurich terminus dual-electrified at 15kV AC and 1200v DC, the latter with offset catenary! The latest Be510 Uetliberg EMUs are dual voltage with a pantograph that...

Look into setting up a Starling Bank [link] current account, depositing some money in it before you go, and topping up online if you need to while you're away. Fee-free use of their debit card abroad and reasonable exchange rates. In the last couple of years (when travel abroad was still...

Yes I did eventually get it, last November, from him at his stand at the Warley Model Railway Exhibition. I have no subsequent information. The absence of model railway exhibitions due to coronavirus is unlikely to have helped his business.

The nearest end of the Albula Tunnel is about 12km as the crow flies from the Landwasser Viaduct (a lot further measured along the railway because of all the curvature, including the spirals between Preda and Bergun en route). The new Albula tunnel simply closely parallels the old one and...

..... and next week (Fri 3 July) we have "Great Luxury Railway Journeys" - according to Radio Times "Train trips across Canada, Scandinavia, Europe and New Zealand, meeting the characters who travel, work and live along the lines. Bill Nighy narrates." Sounds suspiciously like a compilation...

What's the difference between the "Locomotives business unit" sold to CRRC, and the "Rail Vehicles business unit" sold to Stadler? Later class 68/88 supplied to Direct Rail Services were labelled Stadler, and they're locomotives, surely?!

I concluded it was a straightforward repeat despite not being marked as such. I recalled lots of it too.

Iron Ore originally, granite later. Also a general carrier for the valley so a variety of stuff in small quantities. There was a short-lived attempt to set up a business making breeze blocks from the large supplies of granite dust. However, no slate quarries, Scouse77.

One in Ravenglass, west Cumbria, on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway platform. Still had phone equipment in it last year when I last saw it, but non-operational.

No, they left the Ravenglass and Eskdale a very long time ago. I found this [link] via Google which provides some subsequent history, but dates back to 2008.

Yes - there have been lifts down to the subway for a while.