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My wife has just returned from a tour of stately homes of Northumberland undertaken with her mother. Happily she brought back a couple of bottles of Alnwick Gold which I can confirm were very drinkable indeed.

This must be the most trivial fact ever reported on this forum. ed1971 I salute your knowledge!

As well as the points made above, distributed traction offers some redundancy where one engine failure doesn' t cripple a MU. If you have frequsnt stops, bad railhead conditions, or severe gradients MUs win there too because all the train weight is available for adhesion. Watching a class 91...

Whilst I cannot condone adrock1976's behaviour and would like to see 142095 scrapped immediately it was in working order at Middlesbrough this morning on 2D12 the 0709 Bishop Auckland-Saltburn

I'm a bit late to this thread, but I have thought carefully before typing. My intention is be compassionate. In an earlier life I worked as a crime scene investigator for a civil police force through whose territory ran a length of the ECML. When fatalities occurred on the railway BTP could...

Love that! And this https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/547c8fffe5274a429000019b/090828_B092009_Broad_Green.pdf And this https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/547c8fe1e5274a4290000189/R122012_120702_Durham.pdf

Stop this now, all of you! This thread is about how bad Pacers are, but warm feelings are creeping in to some posts. Anyone who has never travelled on one, don't. They're awful. Anyone wanting to bash them all before they're gone, don't. I beg you not to waste your time. Lets get back to...

Two winters ago, before dawn on the platform at Dinsdale. It has been a cold night. The platform is slick with ice* as the Middlesbrough train pulls in. It's a Pacer with bench seats and the stupid roof mounted heater which isn't working. The carriages are doing a good impression of a chest...

A point well made. Looking round this forum or the RAIB website makes it clear that the risk is all in the interface between the trains and the people. Track workers are at risk, level crossing users are at risk, and passengers boarding and alighting are at risk, Almost no-one else is.

Why do we allow cars to travel at 30mph or more in places where conflict with pedestrians is likely and where such conflict will be disastrous? Because lower speed limits won't be adhered to and are unenforcable with current resources. In the SDC universe cars will not slow down at every shop...

Perhaps the agreement from the manufacturers will be "yes we can't deal perfectly with every situation, but we will do better than an average human driver. Oh and by the way, since 90% of situations are caused by human driver error (distraction, inattention, impairment, excess speed) there will...

I think it might be a). Portugal is well known for road safety which is poor by European standards. Exactly why I couldn't say.

If I may say so that seems a little harsh. Lucan, be my guest and buy a self driving car, new might be affordable, maybe there will be a second hand market for used examples from the service providers. What you won't be doing, sooner than you think, is driving yourself.

Closed - Fighting Cocks on the original S&D alignment Open - Dinsdale (how much more exotic if we lived about 40 chains further east, then it would be Teesside Airport which is as nearly closed as an open station can be!) Heritage - I was going to say Grosmont but its probably somewhere on the...

Not trams. Passenger services. There was a minor campaign a while ago which IIRC was opposed by the City

The South Suburban looks like a no-brainer for passenger services except the Council beleves that the bus services are good enough and doesn't want abstraction of revenue. This principle might also play against the tram network expanding.

That would explain why the line at the bottom of our garden in Dinsdale is a bit quit. 30C, full sun and a HOT wind

This is incredible. I've often wished for Middlesbrough-Newcastle vis Stillington. This would be a connectivity gamechanger for Teesside especially Stockton. 75 mph paths on the ECML to and from Ferryhill will be tricky, I agree.

142021 at Hartlepool on the 1204 Hexham

"Likewise elderly or disabled may use them to get out more". You say that like it is a bad thing. Self-driving cars could be empowering for many who cannot currently travel. It would be easy to provide accessible vehicles, especially if not tied to the current layout. I will put on my hard hat...