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The image of Crow Nest Junction at this link: https://signalbox.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/crownestjcJWFSv-300x205.jpg shows a four track railway splitting into two, four track railways. I find the symmetry of it strangely attractive! How many other junctions around the country can we...

No different to multiple working a 158 with a 156 or 150, which happens regularly.

Am I correct in thinking that the only thing that prevents this is the way the pins are wired on the couplers and it was a Network SouthEast wheeze to prevent Regional Railways pinching their shiny new trains? If this is true, does GWR have any plans to rewire the 16X to standard so that they...

Did a Freedom of Scotland rover in August 1988 and definitely rode in a second class Mk 1 compartment between Inverness and Aberdeen.

St Ives branch rarely sees tickets checked in my experience. Had a free journey from Lelant into St Ives this afternoon on a lightly loaded train. The other 6 who got on at Lelant no doubt did not pay either.

There is no reason CrossCountry couldn’t just order the 24m version ‘off the peg’. 26m vehicles are by no means essential.

We are continually told that pushing a train is just as safe as pulling one, and I believe it. The APT-P pushed 6 vehicles in each direction, 4REPs pushed 8 etc and after the advent of DVTs even longer trains were pushed. Why could the APT-P not have had both power cars at the same end, one with...

Nottingham to Peterborough and, in the past, to London.

Did the south to east chord of the junction to Cotgrave colliery ever see a train?

Don’t worry, Huddersfield fans are still a little tetchy.

Extremely nerve wracking last night at the City Ground but Forest finally return to Wembley after a 30 year absence. Played poorly on the night but just did enough and Brice Samba in goal was absolutely magnificent all evening, what a player! Shame about the idiot who charged into Billy Sharp...

Was the inner or outer axle powered on Pacers?

The marine environment will recover and adapt. Wading birds for example are mobile and will move somewhere else. To disregard such a potentially massive source of completely renewable energy as the Severn estuary could provide, using damage to the environment as justification, is ludicrous.

I do hope so.

Thank you

There was a Grand Central class 180 parked on the bridge over the A52 at the northern extremity of the Old Dalby test track this evening at around 16:30. Anyone know why it is there?

There are pictures here: http://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/st-ives-branch.html of 6 car class 117 in use on the branch.

Thanks for the info. So that small difference in length is enough to make 5 car operation unworkable now?

Why has this become a problem? Before sprinterisation the St Ives line was regularly 5 car in the summer. Where the first gen DMU cars shorter?

I know he pays ‘some’ in the UK, but strenuous efforts are made that it is not ‘all’.