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Think about "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and the book. Now think about that mini computer we call a smart phone.... I'm sure you can buy a bright cover with the words " Dont' Panic" on it.

LO9 is the section signal for the section to Deganwy. As described up thread extra signal sections were installed to increase capacity. It's also there to allow shunt movements on the up line without needing to obtain "shunt ahead into section" from Deganwy.

Just a minor point, the CT sleeper services were planned to work in and out of Waterloo. This was to include combining and dividing the South Wales and West of England services. I think some loco changes for north of London services were going to be made at Kensington Olympia. Although the...

Well done, you cracked it in one. I thought I was going to need a clue about about the gauge to get folks on the right lines. It was more or less preserved by the 1970's, just shunting the ESCOM workshops at Rosherville near Johannesburg a couple of times per week. Over to you to provide...

They were incidentally the last large contract fulfilled by Eastleigh Works before closure by Alstom. Anything after that contract was oddments like converting the thyristor fitted 455/9's of SWT to camshaft controls around 2005.

Identify the steam locomotive that operated in the British Isles but was preserved in South Africa. The last report of it's status was in 2010, so who knows what has happened ......

12 February 1996?

Just a warning about using higher definition when scanning older slides. Over 600 dpi my epson V200 scanner picks up the grain of the emulsion. Attachment IR041 was scanned at 500 dpi and when enlarged shows a mottled effect on the clouds from Agfa film. Kodachrome has a better grain structure...

It's a long time ago, but I was working for SWT at that time. Something daft like 0516 Twickenham - Waterloo via New Malden? ( It's over 20 years since I had anything much to do with the SWT/SWR Timetable apart from using it.)

Which is why Post Office terminals were built at Tonbridge, Low Fell(Newcastle), Warrington, Willesden RM terminal and a few other locations. Some postal traffic was handled when there was minimal passenger traffic, examples which come to mind are Redhill, Coventry and Derby. New terminals would...

Looks like a swallows nest

Many years ago on night duty at Southampton, it wasn't unusual for a Tawny Owl to fly along the Up Main platform. Nowadays you may well see ring necked parakeets which seem to have moved into Southampton from South West London. Country signal boxes were and still are superb bird watching hides...

Two thoughts... I have also taken to exercising later in the evening by cycling, there's no one about and it's possible to do a reasonable distance without slowing and weaving around people walking/drifting on cycleways. Also as Brambling said, there is more wildlife to be observed. I didn't...

For the last ten years years (I think) traffic has moved westbound on the CN line and eastbound on the CP line. This applies between Matsqui Jn/ Mission and Cisco or Kamloops. the idea was to run longer trains as some loops in the Frazer canyon were a bit short and to save all the stopping and...

Yes, seen between Chandlers Ford and Romsey.

General Purpose Relief signaller

You may well be asked what actions you have taken in a safety incident. ( Answering with something relevant which isn't railway related should make an interview panel take notice. I once was given chapter and verse on a man overboard incident from a racing dingy.) Good luck and try to relax...

With three nurses living nearby, all on different shifts but often arriving home about 2000 after a 12 hours shift, any clapping in our quiet road is a bit subdued to let them unwind. Not that we could hear the clapping last night for the ships in Southampton Docks (6 miles away) and all the...

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls were completely unknown "down south" before probably the 1970's. (That was due to Mike Harding singing about them. "Uncle Joe's Mint Balls keep you all aglow....") I remember chasing steam tours in the late 1970's / early 1980's and being asked by a terminal overseer who...

The Brighton - Clapham Jn - Kensington - Reading service was really useful travelling with a a toddler. By far the easiest route between Chessington and Reading for visiting relatives. That was in the early 1990's. One day the staff at Clapham Jn were adamant that there were no cross country...