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Mind you to stretch a point, so did steam, and nobody seems convinced its a good argument for its retention. :) http://www.a1steam.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=123&limitstart=20 Re wantage, apparently the plan is to consider reopening it sometime...

Not a train, but it probably saw quite a few in its time...

Yes, Pelham 123 was a damn good film. I really cant understand hollywoods penchant for remaking (badly) classic films. Assault on Precinct 13 was also pretty appalling.

Well Challow and Uffington would probably be impractical admittedly.:) Its quite interesting to look on Streetview as Wantage road is now. The road access to it would be quite good, and there is lots of room for a decent carpark.Wantage Parkway? Re Babminton, I passed there recently and was...

Dont like the idea of Bus 'Franchises'. Isnt that pretty much what the TOC's already are, which I note not many on this site are in favour of? Why is it going to work when introduced to bus services? Other than that, there are some interesting ideas in there. What they havent suggested is...

There was another episode called 'Poppy' where they filmed scenes in Farrington station. I seem to recall James Booth (Private Hook in Zulu) stepping off a BR EMU, though confusingly it is listed as a tube station. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtRXvb3SM0 Did BR run in there in the 1970s...

One thing I wonder, would electrification improve the case for reopening some of the stations between Swindon and Didcot? Wantage is already campaigning for Wantage Road to reopen, and I gather the Military College at Shrivenham would be happen to see the station reopen. Wouldnt the better...

Never happen. They have been banging on about that for the past 25 years, and could do it for another 25. The central problem is that it will cause the top half of the severn to silt up. The canadians who built a similar barrage have sworn never to do the same thing again apparently. There is...

I see the point you are trying to make, and you do have a point. There have been comments about electrifying Bristol-Birmingham already, at which point it will be necessary to electrify Stonehouse-Swindon as well. Which is problematic if they dont flippin double it first! Good points though...

That was the line I was thinking of. Isnt part of that used by a quarry, or am I mixing it up with something else? I dont disagree with the argument, that the Conservatives will try everything they can NOT to electrify GWML. (Heck, they have already been backpedaling locally over the Kemble...

But that assumes the cost of the fuel is going to stay the same as it is today. Overlooking all the alarmist talk of peak oil (which may or may not be correct), fact remains that have been two alarming peaks over the cost of oil in the past 10 years. It would be a brave man who assumes the...

Well the GWR had plans to electrify it 80 years ago, so it probably is viable.:lol: There is an alternative route to Dawlish, I would have to hit the maps but there was an alternative route (LSWR?) that Beeching shut that has long been mooted for reinstatement. It may well be better value to...

Sounds about right. IMHO If GWML had been been given a 'Cost Test' in the 1830s, Brunel probably wouldn't have built the flippin thing at all.:roll:

That wasnt you who liked to turn the big diesel generator off, plunging the place into darkness was it?:lol: Great place anyway, a great shame that it closed to tourists, but at least it appears to be in fairly good hands. It needs to be occupied to prevent vandalization. I recall the guides...

Thats just...wrong.:lol:

Can you imagine what those on the HST must have thought being overtaken by a 70 year old Steam locomotive? Quite right of course.:lol:

I arrived about 10 minutes early at Chippenham to see it, and was surprised to it it just entering the station! On the return journey I made sure I got to my vantage point over the Foss way to get a photo, and from my reckoning it was on time, which I thought was pretty good after climbing the...

It is, I have the same model in Royal Sovereign guise. Its not the most detailed model, but it looks like a Dean Single, and the carriages were excellent. Im tempted to update it, but as its was a limited edition, I think Ill wait till I see one of the old triang ones and rebuild that.

Seconded. The same chap did a book on cold war bunkers which is also well worth getting. Adjoining Box tunnel (memory says actually above it which may be wrong) was the Central Ammunition depot , of which the second tunnel was the loading bay. Next to this I think must be spring quarry, which...

Irish rail were scrapping some Mk3s a while ago werent they?