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Being brought up in the locality and spending many hours exploring the remnants of old freight branches for mains, plus waiting to see the double headed 20’s on the coal trains from Polkemet got me thinking are there any records of passenger specials visiting these lines. Also I only ever saw...

Note a lot of posts on here about semi modern bogies but few on the ride quality of the Mk1. For me I always checked the stock and would head for the commonwealth bogie coaches, hopefully they were SK’s or CK’s but always dealt these were the smoothest ride ( especially overnights) , did get a...

Just wondering what is the largest station reduced to almost a 1 platform Halt , still open on the national Network?

Reading the posts got me thinking how much the hobby has changed over the decades. When I first became interested in railways in the late 1960s steam had gone, but a great variety of diesel and electric locos were around to savour. I remember my first sighting of a Clayton at Bathgate and a...

Always wonder why the the front gangway door is the drivers cab were changed from as built with window in door to solid doors without window( think 150's may be same). Yet the 317's have retained the original inter unit gangway door with a window

Why does South Yorkshire Train trams require a TOPS code to Operate on the National Network, yet London Underground stock sharing NR tracks doesn’t

Why should government bail out these companies. They didn’t offer additional financial payments to the people when they made nice profits for the shareholders so what is different now? Many assets were bought for a fraction of their value. Public transport should be renationised. Not to...

One of the few Class 303s I failed to see was 303035, which I believe was fitted with Thyristor control and Dean control doors. I always wondered if there were any external differences on the doors for this unit, and if there were, does anyone have photos?

On the North London line 416’s replaces the 501,s prior to 313 appearing. Did the EPB’s ever work the Euston Watford service or did that go straight from 501’s to 313’s?

Got wondering where a route has a mixed vehicle allocation how is it scheduled. I remember in the late 7”’s when HT had an alllocation for the 253 in London using DM’s they were dramatically slower and always running late compared to SF, CT and D allocated RM’s. Maldonado thinking of Eastern...

I remember well in London we had quite a few Stops labled Head Stop or Tail Stop usually before or after a junction , these were due to the mixture of Front / Rear loading buses. Just wondering if these still exist ?

Now wondering what is the most successful chasis is /was. Whilst the RM was innovative the price tag was to high for municipals, so didnt get sales outside London except Nothern General. The Atlanean was adopted by many because it was suitable for OMO. The fleetline became close . My Favorite...

Have always wondered why class 05 was allocated to 2 different batches of shunters there was Barclay build and Hunslet build all of which except D2554 withdrawn 1967 during the shunted cull of non standard build. All the others had no TOP’s class allocated so why did the 05

Following on from my last post re last conductors, what were the last halfcabs in service and when, RM's excepted)?

A bit of tongue in cheek here before the IT get out their guns to try and shoot me down. Anyway reading about the further troubles with the Caledonian sleeper stock and software issues on other modern stock, makes me wonder if our desire for stock with all singing all dancing fitments is really...

When and where was the last conductor in the UK. Was it in London when the 159 was converted or were there others after that

Just wondering what the oldest vehicle in UK is operating on a regular service , not just special sevices

Traveling to Plovdiv by train and and noted for 1st time some ground signals with Blue lenses. Anyone know what these are for

Does anyone else remember chassis ( minus bodies) been driven on public roads being delivered to the body builders? Remember well new Atlantean and Fleetline chassis being driven to Alexanders in Falkirk, the drivers with oil skins and goggles driving these strange beasts

Se. lots of photos of the Killin Branch , always steam. Got me thinking as it closed in 1965 did Diesels ever operate to Killin?