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Expect the Bratislava trams to get some visits next week - I'll be able to tick them off myself.

If anyone thinks that HS2 was put in a hideously expensive 30-odd mile tunnel under the Chilterns because the line needed to be straight and level they are kidding themselves - an army of self entitled nimby's (with their Conservative MP backers) who do not give a sh*t about anywhere north of...

and Pearl & Dean Music blaring out before the Kia Ora "too orangey for crows" advert! Enjoy!

This is HS2A and HS2B Western Leg without either Crewe or Manchester Tunnel - I'm sure just magically chopping those two out of the spiralling HS2A/2B costs gets you the same 35% saving does it not?

Even my missus said that watching it tonight FFS! Out of interest the hack device was the same one I use to control my Model Railway (actually just a tram right now) it was even described as such (in mysterious code) during the programme "thats an SBC" said the heroine trapped on the GatEx...

I see Lord F'Nar F'Nar Esquire of Cheshire was squealing on BBC this evening about how tiresome the continued uncertainty on his pile in Cheshire was negatively affecting him and his family tonight - f**king nobhead!

Waiting till 6pm before driving into the Congestion Charge Zone in Central London - I had a works grace and favour flat in Lambeth which on the way in I couldn't get to until the 6pm deadline before I could park it and get it tucked safely away from the TfL cameras

I know I'm opening an old conversation, and maybe no longer relevant, but... the Costly Manchester Tunnel which delivers just two additional lines into the Piccadilly throat - given that Piccadilly down to Stockport is 4 tracked (and effectively 6 if you include the styal line) would it not...

doesn't answer the Crewe tunnel problem, just recognises Crewe is a problem. I have no idea (though I can guess) whether there is enough through lines/platforms at Crewe to support the incoming Cheshire Connector and outgoing Staffordshire Conenctor without a tunnel or other bypass. And agreed...

was this the one that one end on the south side rested on an island whcih latterly had a pub extension built on to it before being demolished for Metrolink? The furthest of these two?

don't understand this reasoning, if there is an objective to reduce domestic flights DO NOT serve airports, serve city centres. the only reason anyone goes to an airport for a domestic flight is because its the only way to get between the cities that the airports serve - cut the airports right...

interesting to read this in the light of HS2 P2 cancellation - clearly Packages P2A and P2B come back into the realm of possibilities now

I believe so but can not offer any evidence - because of where I have to work at least once a week I drive over a couple of isolated remaining sections at the southern end of John Glibert Way plus a chunk across the road near Kellogs - almost everything else is gone now

Has anyone mentioned the Trafford Park Railway? This looks to have been constructed, used and decommissioned entirely in the 200th Century - peak size 26 miles in 1940.

Not every train from Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield goes through Stockport (when the Hague Bar landslip is fixed) - you're missing thet alternate route which goes out East from Man Picc and splits three ways at Guide Bridge / Hyde North to Staly Vegas, Glossop/Hadfield and Romiley / Marple

Its basically in the wrong place - a way should have been found to place it much closer to the Railway Station - it does not surprise me its going to be closed and replaced by a new Ambulance Station, its always looked empty whenever I drove past - not quite sure how the new Amulance Staion is...

Bizarrely from the same city as the original 1:1 scale version! https://www.halling.at/content/News-2024.01---Manchester-M5000.html They first launched this model back in 2009 and then they reissued it again at start of the year, I ummed and ahhed about it before ordering it in June. But I...

First post on here modelling related - picked up this beauty last week And 3D printed this a few days later After over 23 years of PC based simulation, I've finally moved back into the real, well 1/87 scale, world!

Survey of two now on the Route Map thing - this week I've been trying to explain to an Italian Gentleman how to get to Old Trafford (the one with the leaky roof) for a meeting coming out from London (where he is staying for a couple of days in two weeks time) - starts easy, take WCML from London...

I agree. Before the BPPulse wall socket was fitted at ours, we used a granny charger cable connected to an external 13amp socket which had been fitted as a spur off the ring main - I was so concerned about how hot the damn thing got I stopped using it, preferring to run granny charger lead...