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How would they have gone on these days if we still had steam trains with a fireman on? The driver partitioned off so that he could not speak to the fireman? The second man on diesels the same? Its all these people who cannot leave the phone alone , while they should be doing there work. You...

It happens all the time, the more money they are on the more they want, to keep them in the lifestyle they think that they should have for there position. How many more have been covered up over the past few years I wonder? to save the general public getting to know how the taxes have been...

Was he getting confused with the Hawker Siddley Kestrel a 4000 hp single engine prototype that was based in Hull for a while? It ended up going to Russia and never returning I think.

Is the gypsum from Drax going to Gasacoinge Wood instead? as there is usually a train been unloaded there and transported to the old covered coal preperation shed where its stored prior to been transported by road to British Gypsum Factory at Sherburn in Elmet near to the station? As this...

First rail support is looking for coaches if you have any spare to run a bus service.

Free and Piv Travel tickets and seats on trains. If my passes are free, Why have I been paying tax on them for the last few years then? Answer me that one please. I do belive pensioners are not required to give up there seats when travelling if the train is full. Another gripe that gets me is...

It passed at approx 8-30 , it was raining at the time , would have took a picture if it hadn,t been for the rain. Didn,t come this way today.

This morning observed the Hull trains set on hire from Grand Central running via Goole this morning, noticed it passing over Goole Swing Bridge on its way to Doncaster, problems on selby route / ECML north of Doncaster?

It makes it look like Network Rail is not upto its saftey requirements with reguards to CCTV crossings.She was a train driver with Scotrail, so isn,t there any CCTV crossings in Scotland then? The helicopter spends hours flying round Hull area. So waht would have happened in it was at othe...

By looking at the crossing , because if like she said she was a former train driver , she would know that one with full barriers is a CCTV Crossing and one with just 2 half barriers is an unmanned AHB crossing and one with no barrieras is a AOCL crossing.

What a load of Clap Trap the crossing in Question was one of the first CCTV crossings in Hull, so the signalman would be unable to pull off the signals either side of the crossing till he had confirmed the crossing barriers was down and the crossing was clear as viewed by his camera. Even if...

All this talk about closeing doors before departure time, how did we go on in the days of slam door stock did all these trains leave late everyday? A 30 sec rule is enough for every train execpt HST,s etc with slam doors still, then 60 sec should be ok.The platform staff know what type of train...

It was also something to do with the pressure on the pantograph onto the contact wire why they wasn,t allowed past York. It was all down to the fact that the OHL on the east coast was put in as chaeap as possible as it was self funded by the British Railways Board within the operating money...

Cables buried into ground, it depends where you are , a ot of Hull to Bridlington lineside cables was mechanically trenched down the lineside and cables buried, but problem ids when you have problems having to dig up the cables when you can find them. Other area,s in Hull area on docks branch...

replyto Radmfi, does cable theft happen elsewhere. I was reading in a newspaper in Cape Town in January that they too suffer exactly the same as us on the railways with copper theft, but they also had the the problem of cable theft from parked up rolling stock, these was been stripped of all...

Cable theft again, When the goverment change the law and make all scrap yards stop paying out for scrap of any sort in cash, then things might start changeing. If scrap yards only paid out by chegue or bank card credit the you have details of who has been selling items to the scrap yard...

The Danubius At Swiss Cottage , overlooks Lords Cricket Ground on on side and on the entrance side in Lodge Road you pull up a ramp the a higher level with underground car park, on that side and passing under the hotel is the line out of Marylebone Staion and the underground trains run next to...

Instead of having ticket barriers, why not go back to the old days of having ticket staff like we used to have back in B.R. days, who check tickets at the barriers and collect them from passengers leaving the station. With automatic barriers you still have to have staff on duty at them to let...

The ECS single unit goes through Thorne at about 5-00am Mon to Sat to form the Barton Flyer, but not on a Sunday it doesn,t run vis Thorne. Castleford Station platform has been out of use for quite a few years now, with trains running in and driver changeing ends and running back out of same...

Hello there, Where is your E & P job at then as that could decide more on what you need to know. Having spent the past 38 years in that department do know one or two things about it which might be of help to you. Bye for now.