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Can anyone confirm that the Crowhurst-Bexhill West branch was push-pull? I seem to remember that they used the bay platform at Crowhurst. If that's the case, the loco would not have been able to run round. Although it mainly used tank engines, I remember that on at least one occasion towards...

730024 again At Nuneaton today

Hi all. Thanks for the replies. Very likely. I guess "egress" can sound like "ingress", so it's very possible that it was misheard. Certainly "egress" would make more sense, and the train manager did come through asking whether anyone had touched the doors. Later in the journey it was...

I was intrigued by the "door ingress operated" alarm which I heard on a Pendolino waiting at the signal approaching Rugby on Saturday night. Does anyone know what conditions could cause this alarm? The use of the word "ingress" leads me to think that someone tried to get into the train from...

Yes, the direct route from Old Oak Common to Greenford (as in the Blue Pullman video) was in use for passenger services, well into the 80s. In 1980 there was one regular commuter service between Birmingham and Paddington via High Wycombe, up in the morning and down in the evening. I caught the...

I think this was the later issue with 110: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:P99349/2022-11-13/detailed so it failed at Sandwell due to a door problem at 20:36. Looking at RTT, it seems that they could not move it straight away. One Avanti service had to reverse and go round the...

102 just passed Codsall on 2J12, so 102, 108 and 110 all in service

You're welcome. I've just been told that 110 is on 2G10 on way to BHM. This will form the 1400 from BHM. Also, 112 is currently stabled at SHR. (2nd-hand info, so I'm only the messenger!) 1668345822 I'm told 196110 on 2G10 was delayed 5 mins at Telford due to incompatibility of wheelchair ramp...

A colleague has just reported that the 09:30 ex-BHM this morning was a 196. Unfortunately he didn't get the number. Assuming no swaps, this unit should form the 12:00, 15:00, etc. departures from BHM.

I don't think anyone has mentioned Crowhurst to Bexhill West. I did this several times as a young lad, before and after conversion to diesel. Even got invited onto footplate of Q1 at Bexhill West. Also Audley End to Bartlow (when it was served by 4-wheel railbus) Other notable journeys...

Just to confirm my earlier post and to kill off any suggestions of it being a ground movement measuring device, it just sends clicks and detects the reflection from a train. It may be able to measure distance from the round trip delay. The clue is in the original picture. The asset label says...

The track was lifted all the way from Moor Street (which at the time did not have platforms on the through line) to somewhere beyond Hockley. I remember walking through the tunnel between Moor Street and Snow Hill a couple of times in the 70s or early 80s. We also walked Westwards from Snow Hill...

I think it's a train mass detector (TMD). I'm not sure what it controls, but it may be to activate the track-to-train CCTV when the train is in the station. Perhaps someone else can confirm this.

Sorry I came onto this thread a bit late. I found this from 1979. I also have one for 1982.

Yes, the normal service would use both routes. Some went Solihull, Birmingham New Street, Soho and others went Coventry, Stechford, Aston. The trouble was that in those days we didn't have Realtimetrains (or I didn't know about it), so I never knew in advance which way it would go.

Looking at the historic Bradshaw's timetables on www.timetableworld.com, I see there was a fair amount of traffic in Victorian times. There were slow trains which stopped at Elephant & Castle, Walworth Road, Camberwell and Loughborough Junction, and fast trains which would have needed to...

Thank you, Taunton and Dstock7080 for the replies. I guess the panels are all fairly new so there's no evidence of the non-stop trains. I just remembered that I posted a 1960s picture of South Ken over 2 years ago here: https://www.railforums.co.uk/posts/4180361/ Not a non-stop train, but a...

I can remember the District Line trains that ran non-stop through South Kensington and Gloucester Road in the 60s. Of course, that was when all 4 tracks were operational at those stations. For a long time after that, the enamel indicator signs at Earls court still had the panels for this, with...

I think London Overground do this quite frequently. I've experienced it on the East London Line. I think I was at Shoreditch High Street when they announced that the next stop would be Canonbury.

There's no record of it returning to Willesden and there's another one scheduled for tonight: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K06683/2021-05-20/detailed Are they using the sidings at Gatwick for temporary storage?