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Many times though the first was that I changed to an MD11 to cross the Atlantic (DFW->Gatwick) to avoid a 767 from Chicago... 3 engines good, 4 engines better, 2 engines ... oh #¤% another 777... :( Ian

Do you mean the Black Mesa & Lake Powell Railroad in Arizona http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mesa_and_Lake_Powell_Railroad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJvvjFZ9x8 Found this on trainsim.com - might be useful...

Shalford ... t. Ian

Lots to do in Lisbon - one of my favourite cities. Admire the architecture of the Orientate station and then walk via the giant shopping centre to the Expo park, now called Parque das Nações. There's a cable car from the aquarium to the Vasco de Gamma tower with fantastic views of Lisbon and...

And to add to that explain why you want to work in the railways, *and* why working for whatever company you're applying for would be exciting for you. There's nothing wrong in stating that you've always had an interest in railways but like some other have stated, you probably want to see...

I'll confirm that - its actualyl one of the reasons why the bridge in Cross Inn was repaired/replaced about 15 years ago...that also gives some idea of how long a decision has been waiting too... I also think because of the spoil heap at Cwm Colliery/Coking Works the track is also being kept...

Just thinking of that one

I should also add at the moment with senior rail cards I can get a return (dep 2nd, ret 9th) for both for just over 100 GBP. The situation I don't want is huge delays at Heathrow and then being stuck with a big bill at Paddington because they missed the train Ian

Hi, what do people suggest for travelling from Heathrow to Cardiff. I'm booking tickets for my parents - their plane arrives at 9h00 in the morning and giving them 2 hours before a Heathrow Express train at 11h00 and the train to Cardiff from Paddington around 11h30. Is this enough time...

Just wondering a few things about west Wales services post-electrification. Firstly the London-West Wales Intercity services, as it now seems that a purely electric train will only be needed for the bulk of services Swansea-London this leaves a few options for west of Swansea: - full bimode...

If you ever venture over to Finland then generally we have no problems. In fact I've never known anyone to be stopped photographing. There's an excellent website for railway photography - practically *the* central place for this sort of stuff, enjoy: Vaunut.org http://vaunut.org/ Its...

:-) You're in luck, probably most of what is running today is in someway descended from a Unix variant... I used to teach at university courses on operating system design* and for the first lecture we listed all the features that made modern operating systems cool, eg: virtualisation, virtual...

These systems are generally embedded (or specific purpose) and working in saftey-critical environments. The need for certification and to keep the systems as simple as possible to facilitate the checks that saftey-critical systems overrides doing anything complex. One poster asked about 32...

The Valley Lines north of Cardiff...I can certainly recommend north of Radyr where it runs along the River Taff. Ian

Already checked those, hence the question (which someone else asked as well). Ian ps: did one *really* visit Brighton as well?!

Wondering the other day about the question where HSTs have been and a few places come to mind in that I have no idea, specifically the valley lines radiating out from Cardiff? Has an HST ever made it to Pontypridd or further? I guess Ebbw Vale hasn't been visited either (either in the...

Lewes? Might be stretching your defintion a bit, but the infilled section is used by passengers to cross the station... t. Ian

Have to agree with that wholeheartedly ... especially on a hot day when you have a cool freeze from the blowing through, the whole atmosphere of people in continual motion on and off the frequent trains and those canopy arches!! WOW! IN the UK, Trefforest Estate ... seriously! Especially...

Quite a good article on wikipedia about TOPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPS A classic example of "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". What generally happens with these older systems is that they are ported to newer hardware via emulators - so in effect you could find TOPS running on...