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Fuel by Road, another of the hazards of privatization of the railways, back in B.R. days it was all one company, so no problems then. For example in B.R. days Cleethorpes had a fueling point just beyond the station, so a tank of fuel was delivered in the morning and off loaded over half of it...

The view of the railway line towards Elsham signal box is between Junction 4 and Junction 5 on the M180, 15 + mins away from between Junction 2 and Junction 3. Also its in Humberside Police area jurisdiction

Very true that, I can remember that some Class 47 that used to come into us for fuel & daily exam etc. had bricks in the exhaust er/ compressor etc end to use as stepping stones to get through the oil on the floor . We had an allocation of Class 37, Class 20 & Class 14 for a while.

The corridor connections was a smaller version of the corridor connections as used on old coaching stock, ( pre buckeye stock which could be attached with an adaptor plate to standard buckeye stock) or the same corridor connections as used by the old DMU,s with screw couplings. Back in the...

PinzaC55. i like the bit I thumbed a lift off a Class 47, it used to happen regularly in them days, everyone worked together when it was one joined up railway called B.R. Look at P.Way jobs on a Saturday night, collected from outside the pub and more often returned to the pub after the shift...

Yes I can remember them days too, I can remember going on a cruise from Southampton in 1990,s went to Southampton in January and took me case down to Western Docks to put on board the Canberra to be put in the baggage room. I flew out to Los Angeles to join the ship with just on holdall, upon...

Post from Hull is now trucked by road to Leeds or Sheffield for sorting, so not much use for a train anymore. Post from where I live near to Scunthorpe used to go to Doncaster now goes to Sheffield for sorting. So i don,t think we will see post like it used to be back on the rails.

With CCTV crossings when the signal person can no longer see to make sure the crossing is down and clear because of the fog he will request a barrier attendant from Fault Control. He will be sent out to act as the signal persons eyes locally to see that the barriers are down and the crossing is...

When it comes to the court case, David Higgins should not be the one that they are looking at as he was not in of the charge of Network Rail then, Ian Coucher should be the man stood there as he was the one in overall charge and getting paid at lot more money than David Higgins is getting for...

Thank you Adrian for looking into this matter, it will be of benefit to all the pass and priv holders from the days of a proper joined up railway, better know as British Rail or I I used to describe us old ones on Network Rail, the sad old gits.

Very interesting that Inkyadrian as i was never too sure about it, when you get your reply from ATOC in print it might be useful to put a link on here to it, so I and others could print it out and keep it with our travel pass cards so that we could show it to who every that we must be treated...

Key Performance Indicators. Network Rail bonus is dependent on certain KPI that they have to attain in the year before a bonus is paid.

When you have had a few years experience in life then you will know what I am talking about, some people may think that your comments are as you say total and utter wibble .

Hard hats was hardly seen on the railways until Balfour Beatty come on the scene and introduced them on East Coast Contract. Now its all image in Network Rails case these days. Do you have to wear one all day SS4 then out on the track in all weathers?

No hard hat on when painting fence, yes if someone saw it in Network Rail he could be disciplined for it even down to been sacked if it had happened before. Thats the sort of management there is in Network Rail these days, they the types who sit in offices all day and know everything about H&S...

As some one else said earlier 1992 drought ( knew it was a bit ago) Yorkshire water was using road tankers to move water from Barmby on The Marsh water treatment works, an intake point off the river Derwent before it enters the river Ouse to elsewhere in Yorkshire. This operation run for weeks...

That will be the GMC rubbish train going back empty. Us here in Lincolnshire are getting all Greater Manchester Area,s rubbish dumped on our side of the country in the old ironstone mines at Roxby Gullet. The originally provide the ironstone to the steelworks until it became uneconomical and was...

At Hull Paragon its red electric light in all the platforms and in the shunt neck its a white electric light on the buffer stop end and I understand this is only on shunt necks where trains just shunt in and out of them. Platform have trains stabled in them.

Quality of mast,s on new electrification. Remember back in the days of B.R. the electrification of the ECML was done by self funding from within the money given to B.R. to run the railways for the year, thats why everything had to be done on a shoestring budget. If the government is your banker...

What about the service from Scunthorpe to Lincoln ? All stops to Doncaster, then all stops to Sheffield & onwards all stops to Lincoln every 2 hrs a through service and return. That must be a fair run on a 153 , it gets full in parts too.