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Let's not forget the last Modified Hall - 7929 Wyke Hall, which should have been named That's All. It may be apocryphal but I read that Paddington had a sense of humour failure when that name was suggested. :)

30907, It appears there are no junctions on that part of the Settle Carlisle line. Why would a freight train reverse itself? Am I missing something?

"The image is also upside down! Rectified:

Excuse an ignorant question from someone who lives thousands of miles away and rarely travels by train in the UK. Have the Virgin staff moved over to Avanti?

Something you would hear in a Music Hall?

Dr_Paul, Not just any 78s either - they were Beltona.

A question about autocoach controls that had not occurred to me before I started this thread, since I had previously only seen one-coach trains. On a four-coach train, were the controls on the trailing coaches disconnected to reduce the friction or were the linkages on the loco designed so that...

I had a Scottish uncle who did Highland dancing. I'm very familiar with "Jimmy Shand and his Band"! :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Shand

Sorry about that Iron Duke! :) The only auto train I ever saw/traveled on was the Marlow Donkey, hence my avatar.

I heard from my friend:

Bevan, Thanks. It’s the Dart Valley Railway. I posted earlier, but it’s waiting on a mod’s approval, probably because I posted a picture. Update: My post has been approved. See Post 13. Taunton was right - the loco is 6412.

I think the last Modified Hall was given an inappropriate name. I read years ago that there was a move afoot at Swindon in 1950 to call the last one out of the works "That's All", but Paddington had a sense of humour failure and 7929 became "Wyke Hall". It may or may not be true, but it's a...

Thanks everyone for their input. I have found this photo of the DVR's inaugural run: It's titled "Nursery Pool inaugural train 6412 11.15 am from Buckfastleigh 05 April 1969". The train is crossing the Dart downstream of Buckfastleigh. A push-pull train was used because the DVR were not...

Thank you Cowley. I'll check to see if that matches with any other pictures from the same roll of film - remember those? :)

My daughter, who was born in Canada, arrived in the UK on a visit to see her grandmother. She went to a booking office, unfortunately at Victoria, and asked for a ticket to Gillingham, using the correct hard-G pronunciation for her Dorset destination. The stupid ticket agent sold her a ticket...

“Named after a Greek mythological hero” True, but it is obvious when you look at the D50 Class names, that Ajax was named after the warship.

Hello all, I'm new here. I've signed up in order to ask for help in identifying the location of a photo that I just received from a friend. It was taken during a university geological field trip in the late 1960s. I don't remember seeing this train, so I might not have been on this trip. I'm...