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According to NLS maps, there were at least four ventilation shafts for the old Woodhead tunnels and they are still visible on the moors in the aerial imagery.

As I understand it, the engine in the 56 is a direct descendant of that in the the class 50s (and 40s even further back) but to me it sounds completely different. Is this because of different exhaust and turbo charger arrangements?

Is the nose on the 40 idential in proportions to that on the 37?

And yet someone showed a document on here a while ago that 46s were allowed a greater load over the Devon banks than the 45s. I wonder why that would be?

Any Betamax VCRs still around?

In this driver's eye view video: Nottingham to London St Pancras, Drivers Eye View | Class 43 HST! at 29 minutes 22 seconds we are travelling south on the Midland Main Line, just south of Knighton Junction, Leicester. The line here is signalled for bi-directional running, hence why I put wrong...

Why is it any different to the Victoria line or the multiplicity of Victoria stations around the country?

I like the bright orange! Maybe because when I was a child I always lusted after travelling first class in an HST and we never did.

The thread title mentions 801s, so I assume the OP was mistaken.

Has to be Nottingham City Transport Atlanteans in the OTO---M number plate range in the classic green double-stripe livery. Would use them on the 14 and 21 routes into the city from West Bridgford which later became routes 95 and 90 after everything started to run across the city centre, 95 to...

Settle and Carlisle was very prone to roaring rails in the late 80s.

I think you could get 4x76 on Worsborough bank on the electrified line to Wath. Two hauling and two banking.

Nottingham Midland and Nottingham London Road. London Road is still an impressive building and is in use as a gym.

Are there any SP differentials anywhere bigger than this on the Robin Hood Line: Wighay Road crossing A differential of 55mph seems quite a lot!

It may have gone. I haven't been this year but the section from St Erth to Lelant has been re-laid with CWR over the last few years so maybe they have got a bit further,

There where some short lengths on the St Ives branch, particularly on the short straight behind Porth Kidney sands, between Lelant and Carbis Bay.

Yet again the East Midlands gets the sh!tty end of the stick.

Are the 66s fitted with less powerful traction motors?

Falmouth branch has many double track structures. It was originally the 'main line' of the Cornwall Railway.

I may have told this story before but in 1985 I was 17 and we were on holiday in Dawlish. Dad worked for BR so I used a ’priv box’ to have a day out in St Ives. Coming back, I got on the train at St Ives and the guard told me that it turned round at Lelant Saltings and didn’t go to St Erth...