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Nice article and pics in tonight's daily mail on the public opening http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2726539/Full-steam-ahead-For-time-fifty-years-two-magnificent-steam-locomotives-travel-seaside-town-Whitby-celebrate-opening-new-passenger-platform.html

Driverless trains outside of the sterile DLR wil not happen nor will pilotless planes. The technology already exists to fly completely autonomously. its call a drone. However when things go wrong and the data link is down, having a MK1 computer and eyeball on the job can save the day. Hudson...

Breaking news LNER V2 "Starlight" will visit the SMR for the first time over the BH weekend and subject to fitness exam , should be running double heading with the railways GWR Saint over the 3 days in the absence of EAR 31 class meaning there will be 4 locos in steam still Edited. After...

Stapleford Railway Open weekend 23-25th August As the BH weekend approaches, I have to confirm that in spite of efforts, we have been unable to get the East African 31 class loco back into reliable service and will now concentrate on redesigning the oil fire fuelling system to make it more...

Bit more in the mail Lucky didn't do more injury rocking it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2717511/Train-commuters-managed-free-man-leg-stuck-to.html

Brilliant thanks for posting just watched it while the rain stops play outside. The amazing thing is that many of the shots in Settle and Appleby etc look similar to today as the road signs had all started to change over to the current modern designs, but of course we still had classic...

Saw this company velorails in Normandy near Falaise but it was shut so couldn't have a go their operation in Ardeche has English website though explaining how it works Seems you all set off in convoy under supervision then a rail bus hauls you and the bike buggies back Could see a market here...

There was a lengthy discussion a few years back on the branch, might be worth a read or combining http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=74261&highlight=amlwch

Hi York has to be one then as it will give you lots of history and The cathedral and walled city and is a tourist hotspot to explore plus of course has the National Railway Museum. I travel all around the UK for work and use Holiday Inn Express and Premier lodge who all charge for the room...

Hi Adam if you are around the Midlands over the August BH 23-25th Aug 2014 Our 1/5th NYC Niagara will be in steam over the 3 day August BH although sadly our NKP Berkshire wont make it We are 30 mins from Leicester or 2 hrs north of London/ 100 miles more on...

It gets very busy if the weather is clear on top Use radar maps to work out the cloud base before traveling and aim to go up if there is a window at that time of day otherwise it will be like sitting in a very cramped LU train on a foggy winters day in Epping LOL However most trains are booked...

Being quoted by various sources as suicide. Driver was on the 2 tones well before arriving on the LC according to witnesses DM have just changed their headline to reflect sadly railways have always been one of the most efficient ways of ending ones life and always will be, Closing LCs will...

We are using the shuttle in a few weeks so hopefully on law of averages, it will be fine for a few months. I have never been a fan of OLE but we do seem to be getting more and more failures on the network in general How does the knitting get damaged in a sterile environ like the channel tunnel...

It would make more sense to stick the engine shed down the end of the Swithland branch rather than spend money buying expensive commercial land in Luboru You could then have a valid reason to run shuttles to visit it:D Only joking, maybe Surely if the lines are joined, the existing GCR North...

It was on BBC Radio Leicester tonight. Bill Ford was saying NWR have come in with a really good price to do the job by suing it a s training exercise and also part of electrification work on the MML so that kit is on site at the same time. I guess there will be spins offs for the network and...

I dont tend to watch tv unless its a docu or news channel but watched a bit of this at the start sequence of the crash. Apart from the poor CGI, the rail crash seemed a bit far fetched as well Recognised Swithland from the shots Of course most rail crashes happen miles form any road access Did...

Yeh but I think its in part 2 which is on now? edit GCR just tweeted it is on now , and was filmed in Feb --- old post above --- --- new post below --- crash just about to happen now

Yeh timing tad embarrassing IMHO Knowing how the tv industry works, it was probably filmed last year I was very careful with the title wording for obvious reasons :lol: Hats off to them though, they seem to have made themselves a useful side income over the years (Buster Shadowlands Top Gear...

Nice to see our heritage railways generate extra income One of a number of casualty episodes filmed there and on other heritage lines http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Great-Central-Railway-Loughborough-starring-role/story-21302590-detail/story.html

I am guessing the EA forced NWR hand in this and insisted the loco was removed I can't see it being a commercial decision Also be interesting who pays seeing as it wasn't GBRFs insurance fault