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Michael, Thank you - I hadn't seen the other thread when I posted on here last night. TOTD

Adding to the North Wales idea, you could do a day circuit from Bangor with admittedly a bus to Caernarfon, but then a Garratt on the WHR to Porthmadog, a Fairlie on the Ffestiniog, a DMU from Blaenau to Llandudno Junction and then a 67 hauling the WAG express to Bangor (all of which is in...

Sure enough, the 67s have started. 67002 headed the first service this week. When will the newly-painted DVTs make an appearance?

...and there's a Class 67 in the sidings at Holyhead tonight (couldn't make out the number in the dark, sorry!)

I can confirm Dufftown - the Keith & Dufftown Railway have photos of the occasion. Presumably Oban/Fort Bill & Mallaig/north of Inverness would be virgin territory for HSTs?

No more 153s on the Shrewsbury to Crewe services - haven't seen one for a few months now. The last time I saw one was a strange combination of two 153s with a 158 in the middle! Where did the 153s go? I'm delighted by the extra capacity which has come from their removal, but have they been...

How about Tornado?:wink:

It's not that fresh!:wink: I for one will miss the East Coast services to Glasgow - but I accept the point that they aren't well used once past Edinburgh. Oh well!

Oh dear. At least noone suffered as a result of the denseness...unlike the doctor in Portsmouth a few years back whose house and car were attacked because some local numpties heard that he was a paediatrician...you couldn't make it up!

...but if the stations aren't in the towns/villages, then there could be space for large Park & Ride car parks. Have you seen the topography from Braemore Junction down to Loch Broom? It would be quite a ride, but the engineering challenges would be enormous! And who's to say the...

How about reinstating passenger services on the freight lines serving Bedlington/Blyth/Ashington? There would be a lot of commuter demand from pepole who currently travel by car or bus into Newcastle. Stage Two would link into the reopened Leamside line, so you could have trains from...

Forgive a stupid question from a layman, but... In the current cold snap, how come rails aren't heated to prevent ice forming on them? It would seem that a small element running along the rail could be used, during cold weather, to keep the rail temperature just above freezing. I realize...

Thank you so much for all the replies - lots of useful points made. We're going to take the plunge... If in a couple of months I start writing posts during the wee small hours of the night, you'll know that the night freight movements were more intrusive than hoped for!

Yes thanks! Buying this house is a big deal to us so it makes sense to seek information from as many people as we can. I meant to start threads on both sites on the same day but I ran out of time - I realize that it may seem ungrateful to the folks on Railchat to start the thread here when...

Hi, I'm considering buying a house which lies right next to the Shrewsbury to Crewe line, and the only possible drawback for the family is train noise in the middle of the night. Is there any way of finding out how much freight traffic runs at night along this line (say, between midnight and...

As a layman, it seems amazing that there were so few injuries and only one fatality - though I don't fully understand the debate about crashworthiness of different types of train in different types of crash, I was hugely impressed that any kind of train could protect its occupants so well in a...