Search results

Has anyone repeated the East Anglian Railway Museum's feat of achieving a main line connection via a track slew? Back in the early 1970's when, as the SVRPS, the N7 was delivered by rail and the S15 "Greene King" went out under steam on its was to the S&D celebrations, so ths makes the second...

One issue about more modern traction is the electronics. With 1st gen' DMU's most electrical issues could be solved with a screwdriver. you cannot do that with traction with integrated circuits etc.. I recall reading an article sayingbow hard it will to keep current cars going as classics in the...

Further to the Konnectbuses / Hedingham and Chambers discussion. Braintree District Council have launched a consultation into a revised Digital Demand Responsive Transport scheme in the north Braintree area. This would include adding the Hedinghams and Great Yeldham into existing schemes. As...

See tfl site here https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490G000652/euston-bus-station

As the trip is on a Sunday no doubt it could be planned to include a Rail Replacement Bus service.

Not all Merrymakers were ADEX, I travelled on a one in the 1970's that was on a scheduled EMU to Northampton with a coach to the waterways museum at Stoke Bruerne. Also Liverpool Street division did a similar transfer to Bressingham but I cannot recall if that was under the Merrymaker brand.

Just as important. is the rising water table in London due to less water being taken for industry. I can remember reading a report about 30 years ago on how it would affect the tube.

With two of the East Anglian towns mentioned, Great Yarmouth and Sheringham a direct service would probably require a reversal in Norwich thus taking up platform space, Sudbury would also require a reversal at Marks Tey. All three porposAls would also require a path on the south end of the GEML...

With a return to office based working and financial institutions returning to the city from Canary wharf perhaps. Might be premature.

Although not impossible hard to see permission being given to take a corner off Manor Park Cemetery.

Braintree - Chelmsford obviously already exists, most of Stansted to Braintree would be a reopening. There's certainly not the demand for links to Stansted from the east. The various bus services over the years have struggled and seem to mainly cater for people who work at the airport.

One that has been suggested many times in the years I have known the area is an extension of the Central Line to Harlow.

For anyone who wants to continue with Christmas then find a church that uses the full 40 day of Christmas when the season ends at Candlemas on the 2nd of February. I once knew a vicar who kept his Christmas tree up to that date.

See https://www.restorationandrenewal.uk/palace/extraordinary-history/churchill-and-palace regarding the wartime damage and Churchill. 1735809750 As this is a railway forum why not incorporate a new partiament building within the redeveloped Euston?

What many people don't realise is that the current House of Commons is a post WW2 design as the previous one was destroyed bombing in 1941. It was Churchill who is said to have insisted on the current design but the post war Atlee govern oversaw the rebuilding.

The Thames Gateway https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Gateway Seem to be a gateway without any obvious destination, unless it's the Thames.

Early start, and a couple of standard class trips, required but: Durham - Peterborough - Norwich - Lowestoft - (East Suffolk line) - Ipswich - London - Durham. You could change Lowestoft -Ipswich for a return to Norwich and then 1st class to Liverpool Street. This allow give a later start of a...

It would be useful to know what your objectives are: max mileage, different rolling stock, routes etc...? As suggestions for Sunday's (and possibly Saturday) would be down to engineering works a seven day itinerary is hard to plan. However for the Saturday I would suggest making the most of...

Watched it through to the end, on Iplayer, some of the railway scenes were better than usual. Many of the nods to the 1970 film were a bit too obvious in my view. After the intro everything went OK until the final train journey when two stock shots of continental trains were included. Channel 5...

The railway segment didn't get off to a good start with a establishing shot of an electrified line.