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David Brennand's book London's East End Diesels has a pic of a pic of a 3 car Class 125 heading west from Barking en route to Fen St in 1968. Volume 7 of Peter Kay's history of the LTS mentions that in 1958 DMUs were used for Pitsea-Tilbury- Barking services. The only mention of them reaching...

This pic of Fenchurch St has steam, diesel and electric all present and correct. http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/fenchurch_street/index7.shtml

Made in 1957. 57 units, with 57ft coaches. Heinz would have been proud

Varamis were rather vexed the other day: Service 018 ~ 01/02/23 Unfortunately, 1M04 & 1S04 were caped last night due to another train operator’s failure to observe our place in the WTT at #Birmingham, stabling a train in the only platform we can utilise, therefore denying us access to it...

The loco couldn't get the train moving on dry rails the next day? Isn't it expected to be able to do this? Isn't the train weight governed around the ability of the loco to do this on the route's limiting gradient?

But via Basildon off-peak is now 2tph instead of the 4tph it was pre-covid.

The only 2 photos I could find of M&B wagons were the 2 you posted originally. English Breweries In Old Photographs (by Ian P. Peaty) has the apparently touched up picture by the warehouse on page 114, while the picture with John Barleycorn in the rail avenue appears on page 63 of Brewery...

Gas Factory Junction is where both the original North London Railway and the direct London, Tilbury & Southend lines joined the original London & Blackwall Extension line from Limehouse to Bow. See map here...

Relying on the switch blade to act as a check rail. No thanks.

I live in Basildon and pre Covid commuted daily. It was basically impossible to get a seat on a train that arrived in London in time to get to the office before 9am. They were full and standing from Leigh on Sea, 50 minutes from Fenchurch St. People would rather be seated and cramped for 50...

What do you mean by 'visit'? Get off and not get straight back on the same train? So wait for the next one? Sadly it's all 2 tph now so that's alot of waiting around. Though it's really only the centre bit between Upminster and Pitsea that only gets 2 tph, at the ends you have a mix of...

Middleton's book on the East London Line has a pic of a Clapham Junction to Ongar excursion, the 'Essex Wealdman', that ran on 28/9/58 behind a J69, reversing at Liv St.

Does the HS1 flyover at Ashford count as an avoiding line?

Living in sunny Basildon I have wondered what is the quickest way to get onto Crossrail. Upminster-Romford West Ham - Jubilee - Stratford West Ham - District - Whitechapel Some means from Fenchurch St which would involve walking to one of Tower Hill, Aldgate or straight to Liv St. I suspect the...

There were the 2 west facing bays at Stratford built for the shuttle from Fenchurch St. Don't think track was ever laid in them.

Don't think anyone's mentioned the Braithwaite Viaduct - the Bishopsgate Goods Yard. Lots of arches! https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/heritage-at-risk/search-register/list-entry/48920 And one I know from my uni days in Leicestershire, the disused John O'Gaunt viaduct

What does 'cant rail' or 'cant rail level' actually mean? In this context it doesn't seem related to cant as in track banking on curves.

My spotting years were as a young teenager in the late 1970s. Living in Basildon, there wasn’t much of interest apart from seeing what 31 or 37 was on the evening parcels from Southend East. School holidays meant days spent at Barking or Stratford or Romford, or a cycle to Wickford or...

Interesting. the NLS map suggests the gasworks sidings are on an embankment all the way to the building they enter. I always wondered how they could possibly reach ground level there in such a short space. So that building must have some coal drops or suchlike in it. I'd never noticed in any...

A bit misleading. It also says Unfortunately in 2019 one bus passenger was fatally injured whilst attempting to board a bus, and one bus driver was killed in a road collision. Which is not that different from the railways. The other 9 deaths being innocent pedestrians. At least the railways...