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Hi All, Having an ebay browse and came across this, pretty sure it's what's left of the mock Enviro decker usd at the Olympic ceremony? Minus the top deck! :|...

Evening All, Recent whispers have come my way regarding the proposed new 'super franchise' for the southeast, combining FCC, Southern & Southeastern, and the word I heard was that First have been tipped as the likely candidate. This may or may not have some truth in it, I've no idea; does...

Apologies for the impending semi-rant, but this is a subject which occasionally irritates me quite a bit and I'm curious as to how much it bothers my colleagues around the network. We can all understand of course that sometimes people miss their intended station, for a variety of reasons. I have...

Evenin' all, Seems Arriva found themselves with a spontaneously combusting unit earlier today, after one of their 2NXX diagrams caught fire in Cardiff Central station, leading apparently to an evacuation. I'm not familiar with their headcodes but I presume this was a Pacer or 150? Any ideas...

http://www.britishtramsonline.co.uk/oct11/newsblackpool3.html http://ltt-news.blogspot.com/ Here we go :( After the widespread relief that most of Blackpool's historic tramcars had been saved from a tragic scrapping at the hands of an unsentimental Blackpool Transport, we now have the...

Hi All, A rather interesting revelation about Brighton station appears in Rail mag this month; that there is an active rifle range located beneath the platforms which is still used by Brighton Gun Club. Apparently, on the rare times when the station is quiet, passengers can hear the guns being...

On a few recent visits to Poole I notice that W&D appear to have transferred to the area some or all of their obscure Daf DB250/Northern Counties Palatine II's, which I believe are convertible open toppers and registered Nxx WAL. These seem to be running around on what I gather are...

Well then, had a few trips recently on Southern's Class 313 sets which are running on the Coastway route, including through trips from Portsmouth Harbour - Brighton. When these were first on the scene I recall talk of Pompey - BTN diagrams being split into two or three 'legs' due to the lack of...

One for the NR staff this; I've always wondered at the level of non-railway geographical knowledge that Signallers need to have in order to deal with incidents, when directing the emergency bods to a location and so on. Whilst train crew are able to give a location based on their route...

This extract is copied over from a reply on another thread; it is undoubtably the most informed and thorough answer to the perpetual question of why is Class 158 air-con always crap :| I thought it was well worth sharing as others on this thread have asked this question many a time. [If the...

Hi all, Quick query which popped into my head recently; does anybody have any knowledge of why the specific numbers 52 and 57 were chosed to identify the vehicles on Sprinter sets (i.e each 2 car unit has a car numbered 52XXX & 57XXX)? Any thoughts or theories welcome!

Hi All, a slightly odd query that somebody might be able to enlighten me on :) Any ideas why every SWT Desiro - or certainly the 444's anyhow, not really noticed the 450's but I would presume they're the same - has a repair patch on the cab corners, alongside the windscreens and roughly the same...

Noticed something that struck me as mildly bizarre at Cardiff today, suprised I've never spotted it before I've but obviously just never been looking! Just beyond the the country end of platform 0 are the remnants of a spur which seemingly led into the area adjacent to the old water tower...

Hi all, recently stumbled across this page which has a few interesting pictures of Blackpool's worst tram crash, which evidently involved a pair of Balloon's at the Pleasure Beach. An actual story is pretty scant, just pictures, does anybody have any interesting info on what exactly took place...

My apologies in advance if this subject has been done to the death, which it might well have been, but I find it intriguing! Has there been an agreed, accepted apprioach to the requirements of the Disability Descrimination Act for London Undergroud, bearing in mind the very obvious obstacles...

Evening all... I'm hoping to find some reliable info on the status of the remaining tram fleet at Blackpool, in particular which trams will be remaining and the intended fate of some of thise which will not. We must have some tramfans with connections on here I'm sure?! :D I'm particularly...

An observation about MK1 coaching stock, based mainly on looking heritage rakes stabled; it appears fairly common for corrosion to appear and open up a seam along the lower bodyside, about 10 inches or so up from the solebar. This is apparent on various vehicles to different degrees, I recall...

Hello All, An unfortunate end to somebody's day out this evening; the West Coast Railways special unloading pax at Bristol TM circa 11pm this evening was attended by ambulance personnel following a passenger, apparently elderly, falling between the train and platform. Best wishes to the...

Hi all, does anybody have any info on the nature of the problems between Romsey and Sailsbury this afternoon, around 4 o'clock-ish?! An associate of mine was travelling down that way and after a right time start from Romsey ended up 40 late at Salisbury, not a good stretch of the journey! He...

Evening All, Arriving at Newport today for the first time in a while, I notice the NR boys have finished off the shiny new trackwork at the London end approach with a pair of 'extra' rails mounted in the fourfoot of the Up Main and Down Relief lines. Of course this isn't the only location we...