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Absolutely. I think if Flying Scotsman is a crowd pleaser then it'll be exactly what the SVR needs at the moment. And the tickets selling out in minutes should be seen as a good sign.

One mk1 TSO coach fully occupied is 64 seats. So if it did one round trip per week, averaged out, with one TSO behind it, it'd raise that. But not all of that would go to the owning group. It'd be hire fees, etc so it'd probably make it's money and be able to cover the 'down time' spent during...

I put in "Create me an image of a British Rail Southern Region Electric multiple unit, similar to the Class 421 and 422 which operated until the early 2000s" And got this:

If you put decent seats in them, not the hard, uncomfortable ironing boards they currently have, and sorted out the channel by the wall then they'd be a lot more comfortable to travel in. That's my main complaint. If ai had to travel to Bedford in one I'd be sending GTR my chiropractor's bill

Personally I'd love to see tram rails added into the Cambridge misguided busway The guided buses can run along them in between the trams, Essen style! Using the Coventry system of tramcars would avoid catenary being put up (although I definitely think aligning street lamps and putting the wire...

There was a budget limit of £550.

Let's not forget, Rocket was built to do one thing and one thing only: Win the Rainhill Trials

Cost Disease! Love it! The Welsh Highland Railway springs to mind here. So bankrupt they couldn't afford an abandonment order and the track lifting only happened due to a Wartime scrap drive. The company still existed on paper all that time and after a lot of legal detective work (and probably...

If I saw a passenger barking on a train I'd probably move to the next coach. But yes mist of thd time I see dogs generally being well behaved, sitting quietly and on one occasion being fussed by other passengers, but she was a gorgeous husky.

I was told (by a bus company boss as well) that if it's a half top then it got reversed under something low hanging.

To my mind we go about closing things the wrong way in this country. If a line shuts it should be a case of not running trains and definitely not removing the act of Parliament that allowed the railway to be built. To me this is the biggest mistake of the Beeching era. It meant that bridges...

Didn't someone do a model railway based on that idea? Charwelton: Into the 80s, I think it's called. It's got a very basic Charwrlton station with the buildings removed and bus shelters erected, very infrequent DMU service using Clubman or Turbostar units and a lot of freight. Worth having a...

What about sticking a cube camera out of the window? It's not a head and can be clamped in place, and you get the same view when you watch back the footage. Obviously an attendant in the vestibule might not be too amused but hey, it's far safer than hanging out of the door.

Actually thats pretty interesting. What do they use?

Yes I'm fairly certain it's Seattle. They put the rails in early on and just ran the buses through, then they put the trams along the tunnels with them and eventually removed the buses. I'd imagine the bus routes run more or less along the tunnel route above ground.

Great idea! And perhaps a second bill abolishing the ORR if they object. That'd be my tactic if I was in that position. With its role going to a reawakened BRB. As I said what I want from the railway is it being as close to the proper BR as possible.

Yeah that's why the Essen one stopped running the buses through the tunnels. It wore out and there was no money to replace it. Watching the Duobuses put their trolley poles up was fun though.

No reason trams can't go underground. They did in Essen, Germany. They called that the O-Bahn and was a remarkable outbreak of joined up thinking. They even sent Duobuses down the tunnels on a kind of hybrid guide way Think bendy buses with the diesel engine in the front part and the back...

Wow didn't know that

Like I said, a vote in Parliament for an Electricity At Work Act 1989(Amendment Bill) would sort that out. Even if there was something Chunnel related, if that kaw had that effect, it wouldn't have been electrified test way. Plus when there are track workers around they're not only certified...