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I've had a slightly odd history with refunds. In late August 2001, I was travelling from Watford Junction to Edinburgh via VWC. There was some sort of derailment at Wembley or Willesden which meant that nothing was getting in or out of Euston. After a 90-minute delay, our train eventually turned...

Yes, you are confused with punctuation. My bum and naughty bits were in brackets, whereas Voyagers are woefully small and noisy. However my bum and naughty bits HAVE been woefully small and noisy....and in that order!!!!!! But that was quite some time ago.....:cry: I'm now 43106, but I used to...

In my view, XC (be it Virgin or Arriva) went down the tubes when they got these God-awful Voyagers. They should NEVER have got rid of the HSTs. It has to be said that I've been on more HSTs that Voyagers, but that's been by design than accident. I find Voyagers slow, very uncomfortable (my bum...

I wasn't aware of this. I've always been under the impression that 3-axle bogies were designed/built so that the middle axle could slide laterally when the bogie was on ANY sort of curve. Clearly, I was wrong. Thanks very much for that, Dave - your explanation makes sense. However, when the...

No, not entirely. Sine waves & Cosine waves do exist (they are identical in shape to each other, but in terms of phase, they are 1/4 of a cycle apart), but Sine & Cosine also exist as trigonometrical (probably spellt rong) terms that describe aspects of, say, a triangle. I'm 99% certain that...

OK chaps, this is a beauty - in technical terms. In the early 1980's, my late father was in charge of the railway network within the Sellafield Nuclear Complex. This also used to include an array of sidings outside the BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels Ltd) site that was (technically) accessible by...

I'd love to see the back of the First ScotRail livery - it is horrible. I've heard someone call it "Barbie-Doll", which is spot-on. Whoever sanctioned the idea of putting pink (or cerisse) on a train really needs an appointment at Specsavers! Not only that, but IF there's a Scottish identity...

Thanks for that, DW. In my search for info, I'd never considered the DfT. I did look at ORR a few years ago and asked them a question about the WTT when someone made the pronouncement that the WTT should go public. They totally evaded the issue and gave me a load of MBE (= Male Bovine...

That's right, and not via Coventry, either! The reason for this is two-fold. 1) To re-introduce Solihull to the IC network, and 2) to reduce the traffic between Brum and Coventry. I heard that it was seriously overloaded. As far as I know, it's always been half-hourly. The only time it isn't...

You're more than welcome -I'm all ears! 43106

I'm indebted to you, Ben. My plans/ideas/intentions are here. Read 'em and and laugh!!! http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/28/2023524/Brief%20Intentions.doc My God, it works! Again, thanks Ben! 43106

This is going to sound bl##dy patronising (which is NOT my intention), but that's the kind of problem I'm confronted with. The possibility of conflict exists at EVERY junction on the network. The fun/frustration is trying to cater for this and that's one of the reasons why I'm after WTT data -...

There weren't many, but (not counting abbreviated names) my contribution is... Bug-Cart = ANY Diesel Multiple unit (Other bods called them BOG-CARTS) Skinhead = A Class 24 with NO roof headcode box Jinty = a Fowler 3F (that's a steam loco, for the benefit of some of you young 'uns!)...

On a Monday Morning in mid-September 1996, I saw a 158 at Brighton on a service to TENBY! Dunno who the TOC was - Wales and Wessex? It was a long time ago 43106

I've already done that! I chanced my arm about 11 months ago when I fired a request into the NR web-site. After a circuitous route, presumably in an office block next to Euston station, my request landed on the desk (well, in the PC) of the Schedule Integrity Manager in Leeds who said (and I...

Who? Me? I'd love to, but I'm too old (54) and this kind of stuff is done in York and/or Leeds, and I ain't relocating from Edinburgh!!! I have a feeling that both of them have already contributed to this thread. If so, I wish they could contribute more, especially to some spreadsheets I've...

Thanks for that Mr. Kempster - Sectional Running Times ARE available (to some degree) AND NR is responsible for them, but, as a non-railway professional, a lot of it goes over my head. There's a family of documents called "Rules of the Plan" available on the NR site -...

This is the data I referred to earlier - I called it 'Rules of the Route', but it's the same thing. It does give a lot of info, such as Dwell Times for different types of train, but I couldn't find any data on timings. As an example, between two adjacent stations (e.g. Macclesfield & Congleton)...

It's been suggested by one of the mods that I post this message in this section, even though it's neither a Preserved nor a Heritage railway! On and off for a number of years, I've been documenting closed lines and stations. This stems from a book I bought in the late 1980's called "Complete...

I'd love to Alex, but as THIS post is only my 2nd, I can't read it. I've got to post another 3 times after this BEFORE I can. It's not me, it's the forum rules. Sorry, but it should still be there when number 5 goes up! 43106