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I saw 1065 doing "Route Trialing" this morning. It headed Northwards on Colinton Mains Drive, showing "Bus constantly stopping" on the rear display at about 1015, then again heading into town on Slateford Road, near Robertson Avenue at about 1130. It had "Route Trialing - Bus constantly...

The Dark Lord is quite right. Before the Atlanteans, the 1 (before half of it was renumbered the 6) had Titans, mostly the 1966 PD3's (EWS 826-850D). Before that, it was the domain of the Tiger Cubs (VSC 51 - 100), as the railway bridge on Abbeyhill couldn't accommodate double-deckers. I don't...

Yet more high numbered Edinburgh CT routes... There were a family of Limited Stop/Express services in the mid/late 1970's that ran at rush-hours. I can't remember the details. but they were all route number 7X, such as... 70 = City centre - Wester Hailes, 73 = City centre - Sighthill. There was...

Brighton - Gatwick - East Croydon - Kensington Olympia - Reading then onto the XC network, Portsmouth - Havant - Haslemere - Guildford - Reading then onto the XC network. Liverpool - Crewe - Stafford - Birmingham then onto the XC network, Inverness (1 per day) + Aberdeen (1 per day) - Perth...

Phaedra by Tangerine Dream

Returning to the core subject, I like the idea of connecting Inverness to the WCML. I can just remember when The Clansman used to run Euston - Birmingham - Crewe - Preston - Carlisle - Motherwell - Cumbernauld - Stirling - Perth - Inverness. Then they routed it away from Lanarkshire and sent it...

Can't understand why they've gone for Mason Crane. England don't usually play leg-spinner as they are rarely a threat. I don't recall Ian Salisbury, Chris Schofield, Scott Borthwick or Adil Rashid ever ripping through a side. Since Crane had a spell playing in Australia in the winter, I've been...

Farnborough. It caught me out in early 1991 when I had a job interview. The Royal Aircraft Establishment got me digs for 2 nights at a house in Station Road in Farnborough. I got off the train at Farnborough, expecting to walk straight into Station Road. Instead, it was (still is) Union Street...

My wife asked me "What's on the telly?" I said "Dust", and that's when the fight started... _________________________________________ I was in a pub, next to a group of the fattest, ugliest women you have ever seen. They were talking to each other in an accent I couldn't work out, so I...

My nick-names come from the 1960's - apologies if they are repeats. CHEESE BOX = Met-Vick Co-Bo (D5700 - 19) BUG CART = Any DMU (Some folk called them BOG CARTS) SKIN HEAD = Class 24 without a roof-mounted Headcode box STREAK = A4 Class steam loco (e.g. Mallard) SEMI = Stanier Pacific steam...

Giles has supposedly replaced Dougie Brown - what's happened to him?

Don't know if it counts, but as you travel DIRECT between Birmingham & Bristol, you can see Gloucester. There's a 1-a-day service between Glasgow & Kirkcaldy via Linlithgow that runs along the north bank of the Forth, and you can see Edinburgh.

Jimm – thanks for your input. The Open Train Times map looks the best, as it’s clear and unambiguous, unlike the map on Network Rail’s NESA. The “Didcot” situation is, understandably, confusing, due to the naming of the junctions & crossovers. According to the NESA map and (to some degree) the...

I'm doing some personal research into how current Cross Country and London - Newbury - Plymouth services enter and exit the new Reading station, particularly on the west side. My main data sources have been the Network Rail Track Maps on the National Electronic Sectional Appendix and the WTT...

Over the years, I've bumped into... 1) Zia Mahmood (Bridge Champion) and Vic Reeves on GNER trains in 2002/3. 2) Max Clifford on the concourse of Waterloo Station in mid 2001. 3) Union leader Doug MacAvoy on Kings Cross station in 2002/3. 4) Comic actor Arthur Mullard on a District Line...

I'm a Boring Old F@rt, so my preferences are mostly from the 1960's, such as... Round the Horne, I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (with The Goodies, John Cleese & 2 others), The Navy Lark (Jon Pertwee was brilliant!), I used to listen to The Clitheroe Kid, but, in retrospect, I now think it's...

I've had a whole carriage twice and a whole train once, though 2 of them are combined. The first time was in the early 1980's, on what was the rump of "The Clansman". It used to run Euston - Birmingham - Crewe - Preston - Carlisle - Motherwell - Coatbridge - Stirling - Inverness. Then it got...

Sort of. There were a couple of atomic piles with the specific task of making plutonium for Britain's atomic bombs. Because of a small design fault, some of the plutonium pellets in one of the piles didn't finish up in the pond of water at the bottom of the end of the pile. As a result, they...

It reminded me of this one... Two blokes working on the factory floor. One says to the other, "I need some time off - watch this", whereupon he climbs up a side support and sits on a horizontal beam in the roof. The foreman turns up and sees the bloke in the air, sitting on the beam. "What...

Tom - I've sent you a P.M. on the subject.