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From within the railway world. But thought I would share here as there are so many of us waiting for Birmingham.

This is getting boring now. Waiting for Birmingham since 28th September 2018 after giving up two holidays to attend both assessment centres. I’ve had two emails since, one asking for those certificates in January and the latest one saying no courses coming up anytime soon. Have since found out...

Think I’ve read somewhere before there are no oil lamps left on the national network. We don’t have any on the GCR. All of ours are electrically lit

The train you saw was 6C89 Mountsorrel - Carlisle. The “low value” stone you refer too is not so “low value”. The stone produced from Mountsorrel & Cliffe Hill quarries, both in Leicestershire about 8 miles apart, both rail served and operating all the time, produce some of, if not, the best...

One chain is 22 yards which is a cricket pitch. There are 10 chains in a furlong and 8 furlongs in a mile. I'm 26, it's quite easy.

It looks like the signals reading from Watford platforms north to swap lines and the ground signals to read bang road across the junction are there, just no point work.

In that case the interlocking for the north junction must have been installed then just the kit on the ground not installed. Will take a while to get a possession sorted to install it now.

Looks like chaos! Wondering if there is a separate issue between Bourne end and Ledburn junctions as even class 4 freights and class 2 passenger services are being put on the fast between these two. Makes no sense why they took the north junction out.

Love it how an overnight express sleeper fails but then gets assistance from.....an 08! Brilliant!

ouch! that will be an expensive failure. Isn't it £200 per minute for the delay payments?

I have previously been registered although that now no longer works. I have registered again this afternoon, and received a confirmation email, but then when logging in it says email and password don't match, so click on forgot password, enter the email address and it says not found in the...

Richard, I have applied for many jobs recently, have made it to S&T apprenticeship interviews, have past many assesments for local companies but then not been invited for interview, have filled in many application forms and heard nothing, put quite a lot of effort into it all, but still no...

I wouldn't be surprised either to be honest, has a massive potential. Thanks for the advice all. Shall keep looking and thinking of a way into the rail industry :-)

So maybe someone like Riviera trains could purchase/lease one, and run it in addition there current fleet of 120 plus coaching stock, or as a side-line business using current maintenance/access arrangement? There is certainly a market for HST rail tours on the mainline and with them being...

I have heard of many of them but unsure of the common feature? Im guessing its something to do with being unsuccessful? I have a rough basic understanding of things, but nowhere near as in depth as I would need to, but thats where I was hoping some useful advice would be sought on here :)...

Good Afternoon All, Been thinking about this for a while, but unsure of how easy it would be, what would be involved, would it make any money ect, so wondering if there was anyone on here who could help answer the below :) might be a never to happen dream but if I don't ask the question I...

It seems crazy to me that for a regular working such as this, the drivers don't just get taught the road through to the power station, they know the whole road from humberside to nottingham but not the 10 mile journey the other side, or at worst, the trains length distance onto the up slow/up...

well, its another line, but think about customers not money, bus them from hemel hempstead to luton parkway, 16 mins, 10.5 miles, get train to st pancras, then customers walk to euston, adds an extra 20 mins to journey times? 4 platforms at hemel, constant shuttle from MK/rugby?

they could always restore there ability to restore things :) then after that maybe finish the flying scotsman :roll:

so a driver can sign the route from new street all the way to wolverhampton, travelling at linespeed, but when they all do their route knowledge they dont teach how them how to proceed forward at 10 mph, stop, change ends, then traverse a trailing crossover and, obeying the indication given by a...