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First of all , the booster sets were removed from the 71's on conversion to 74's to provide room for the Paxman diesel and radiators As mentioned upstread the electronics were a one off as it seemed to be the way forward. Odd for the Southern CM&EE who often seemed to be at the tail end of any...

I'd be unsurprised if you got the same response from a consultation done on the Isle of Wight, to be honest, and that's just Hampshire! (Well, I think it's a unitary now, but you get the idea). It's how to wind up "Oveners" queueing for the ferry that there may be a passport check when they...

Simplistic, maybe, but what if the train crew go "over hours" by working a later service. They either say "no" or take the overtime and then are entitled to their full rest period which could affect the services the following day.

With the costs of larger engineering blockades and the delay attribution for a late finish, bus or taxi is the cheap option for the last train for both the TOC and engineering work manager. 1785601667 Spare train crew on a Saturday evening? Comedy hour has started early today .....

Planned engineering works? Where would they fit in this utiopia??

Indeed it does , as does Mull and Iona. The distribution of post and parcels in Mull is based around a lorry coming over on the ferry to Craignure and the rough sorted bags being transferred to the local delivery drivers. The mainland vehicle is at Craignure for about 40 minutes and joins the...

Memories from 40+ years of Central Division performance monitoring .... Part of the closure of Coulsdon North was to save money (fewer points and signals) in the Brighton Main Line resignalling which took much of the 1980's. Turnback workings at Smitham covered any trade and it allowed an...

The 56 was being worked on by fitters about 0845 this morning and by 1100 was moving around the yard complex with 66544.

There was an art to getting maximum availability, particularly if you held a season ticket into London. Upwey to Forsinard gave a pretty wide range of routes. Then there were misinterpretations to be considered... Penrhyn to Plockton but is that the Cornish one or the Cambrian Coast one? And...

Forget that message - Virgin media had a off spell for 5 minutes. now all fine.

Fault : 504 . Connection timed out at 2220 today On a windows 11 computer via edge / Chrome or Duck Duck Go search engines. Cookies cleared recently. An Android 12 phone just shrugs and does nothing after a restart.

Too many years ago there was a Tipton Field group of sidings in Eastleigh Marshalling Yard plus a tranship road for a transhipment shed, removed sometime around 1945! The "Coal Yard" was where the methanol tanks for Borden Chemicals were discharged. ( Now where COLAS locos and tampers are...

From what I understood at he time, the centre door wouldn't work, parts were "borrowed " to keep the front doors working! It did look silly using dual door buses on rural routes like 36/236 Romsey to Salisbury via Lockerley and Dean....

Sitting with a driver after a "one under" waiting for a Train Crew Supervisor and relief driver to arrive. It was his third in a year and was just dazed. We sat and watched the sun set glinting along the track. ( I later found out he never drove a train again .... ) Taking a phone call about...

There are a lot of interesting view in this thread. I started work in 1974 and within a year I was working in a TOPS office. I was appointed because I had used a scientific computer at Technical College, therefore I "knew" about computers! When I retired in 2017, I was still using TSBD which is...

I haven't read the full thread , so apologies if I'm repeating something already mentioned. Similar problems of people not noticing announcements occur on ferries. Having to travel across the Solent on Wightlink or Red Funnel every week or two, many passengers don't seem to notice the safety...

Job and finish. Borrowed from road haulage and years ago frequently observed on overnight block trains. ( Buying staff goodwill - they got home early and the train was there ready for the next working.) I was once chided by a new wave manager for retiming a set of stone empties 30 minutes...

I remember that maybe 40 years ago a "thriller" based on the railways was being promoted and needed some unsafe practices for railway elements of the filming. At least two regions were approached and told the production company to get lost, we're not going to be associated with that. Word was...

I do agree with a poster up thread about attracting enquiries. Quite a few times in Switzerland or Austria we have been asked by other travellers quite basic travel questions and occasionally ones which would baffle resident staff. Why me? I'm not wearing railway uniform, I'm not taking...