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    More Spitfires

    That last little bit was sarcastic, but yeah they are pretty reliable.
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    More Spitfires

    Ah yes, but soon they'll have a new coat of paint and they'll be all shiny shiny and new and will never ever break down...unlike DRS!
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    More Spitfires

    If you ask Mr Spitfire nicely, he might get it on a tour for you...
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    More Spitfires

    Where were you on Monday 14th September 1998 then when it worked the 0836 Holyhead - BNS, when I strached it from Chester - Crewe?
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    More Spitfires

    Now that is a thought? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Sorry just saw the bit about veg and automatically assumed you were talking about yourself. Apoligies. Aaaaah! That explains a lot! Thanks!
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    More Spitfires

    Fair point, but a different point to what I'm saying to '401.
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    More Spitfires

    Oh so they've got to be 'new' 37s to be dreadful dreadful then? Why do the CFPS keep chucking 40145 out on to tours, why not 40135? And on the Kyle tour I was, expecting something other than D1015 as that is always out on tours! Oh sorry I forgot, it's not about the traction and the engine, it's...
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    More Spitfires

    D1015 to Kyle. Try and beat that! http://50031.fotopic.net/p59104885.html
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    More Spitfires

    :oops: Well done for reporting it! As for 2 Spitfire=1 Pathfinder/Compass Spitfire=£49x2= £98 Pathfinder=£59/£69 Compass=£54/£59 And yet Compass still manage to sell out with those prices.
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    More Spitfires

    What about D1015, there was a nice tour advertised with you last year to Penzance? Or how about 40145, another go at Skegness? :D
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    Class 37 50th birthday 2010

    Plenty of /4s travelling up and down the North Wales Coast all day with a couple of NB ones thrown in. May/June 2010.
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    More Spitfires

    Just because they've been in storage for ages doesn't make them big. What's all this frothing about how 'big' 37510 is supposed to be? It was a sleeper loco back in the day: http://www.c37lg.co.uk/fleet/fleet.asp?number=37510
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    Favorites and Least Favorites

    Coach numbers.
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    Favorites and Least Favorites

    Favourite TOC: WSMR FOC: DRS Loco: Class 40 Unit: Class 350. One of the very few comfortable and pleasant units to travel on. Line: West Highland, Highland Mainline, Kyle line and North Wales Coast. Station: Crewe. Although Carlisle is quite nice as well to get some phots...
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    The Electric Scot--11/7/09

    Nice phots '015! Any ideas about what happened with this incident at Carlisle on the return? :-?
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    Which train sims will run on my PC?

    For MSTS: WCML: Modern: http://www.trainstrains.co.uk/catalognew/product_info.php?products_id=29 Steam Era: Thames Mersey from UKTS: http://www.uktrainsim.com/ Chester - Holyhead: http://www.d8233.org.uk/msts_nwc.htm London - Penzance: Steam Era: Paddington - Penzance from UKTS...
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    What station?

    1) Chandlers Ford 2) Willesden HL 3) Plymouth? 4) Chester
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    Priv Holders

    Me.
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    Best place to see Pendolinos

    The linespeed through the centre roads at Crewe is 80mph. So unless they're diverging off to Manchester, you wouldn't be able to see the number/nameplate. Only 1 pendo stops each way an hour new with the new timetable, the Euston – Manchester’s via Crewe, all others fly through non-stop with...

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