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The wooden bodied vehicles in the train are passed to run at 75mph, and are the oldest vehicles in use on the network. They are permitted to run due to 'grandfather rights' (they were registered pre privatisation) and the fact that it is a private train and not for everyday passenger use. The...

As a driver I often see people making the 'create vacuum' handsignal, or in other words mimicking a rather frantic attempt at flushing a Victorian toilet. That is actually something which gives me an instant red mist. Besides breaking railway regulations, unnecessary use of the horn ruins videos...

I would agree with my colleagues sentiments. The 66 is a truly abysmal locomotive should you be unfortunate enough to have to work on them every day. A step back in terms of driver comfort from 58/60, and causing people to experience hearing loss and back problems. DB are beginning to pay the...

Doesn't appear to have been named, just been on BBC South Today.003 was the loco involved, which as we know is a HH loco.

There are meant to be two FUGLYS down for Monday, 003 is supposed to be going back to Heavy Haul so won't be the one getting named (if indeed one is going to be named). I think 4M61 is due away from Millbrook at around 10.55, and should be at Eastleigh 11.11 - 11.13 for a crew change.

Ah yes, the much discussed £4472,000,000. I'm not really into steam but respect why many are, and appreciate the engineering aspect. I admit they can be evocative and full of character. Like i said though, I'm not into them, diesel being my thing. However if ever there was an over rated...

Look out for 4M61 on Monday 4th April. FUGLY (not number 3) being named at a big publicity event in Southampton, 4M61 likely to be worked by newly named loco.

It's out on Tuesday & Thursday, 4V50 & 4O51. The do at Millbrook is next Monday, not today. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- And i suppose there is no need for secrecy, from next Monday 4M99/4O22 are also diagrammed for FUGLY. You won't see O22 unless you are an early bird though.

It should be out either tomorrow or Wednesday, you'll see it at Eastleigh approx 13.50. It should be in daily service within a couple of weeks, but I dare not quote actual trains - Freightliner are a bit touchy about unofficial publicity. It would have been out today, but there is something...

Ain't that the truth. I bailed out of EWS four years ago taking a pay cut to do so. My only regret is that I put up with working for those *******s longer than I could have done and didn't bail out years before.

You are joking aren't you? I almost always head for the quiet coach. Within seconds of sitting down, some moron will start making a phone call, hammer away on a laptop, sit down with an iPod blaring away or as was the case this afternoon on the 14.47 from Reading to Bournemouth have a bunch of...

I simply love sitting on the floor in the vestibule like a teenager (I'm in my mid 40s) because as per usual there are no seats available on my Crap Country 'service'. By the time I've got where I'm obliged to be going, I feel fresh and ready to drive my freight train the 200 miles back again...

I don't really think I would like to drive a route not having learnt it thoroughly before hand. It's all very well sitting in the comfort of your study 'driving' a computer simulator, but its no substitute for the real thing. If the technology exists to tell drivers in the cab of x,y and z then...

Type of brake blocks fitted if I recall, and no deltic was ever fitted with multiple working capability.

Friday 4th.

I get the gist of what you are saying and agree in the main. There's been no redundancy at Freightliner Intermodal though.

Training trips start next Friday. 2x return trips to Basingstoke, daylight runs.

When everyone has been trained I guess. All fitters and drivers. Be there for a few weeks, be interesting to see where it ventures out to. My guess would be either training trips to Westbury or Woking.

0Z70 12.15 Midland Rd 13.43 Chesterfield 14.14 Derby 15.55 Landor St/Lawley St FLT 18.42 Banbury 19.10 Oxford 20.59 Eastleigh 21.10 Soton MCT Expected Loco: 70003 This is for fitter/crew training in readiness for expected entry into service on an existing flow. Daytime...