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Oh yes, one time about '98 ish kind of period, the SO Manchester Picc-Weymouth turned up at Southampton with a solo 31/4 on the front, about an hour late. Went through to Weymouth at 60 mph max, since it was a Civil Engineers engine, and then, so far as I know, went all the way back to...

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You're not allowed to sound them when you enter tunnels now, aren't you, because it might annoy people. It might annoy people if they're run down by a train in a tunnel because they didn't hear it, but that's not important.

i wish they'd kept the name NedRailways. Think of the fun people could have with that.

I suppose they want to keep the air con running, which on HSTs they could do by shutting down one power car and leaving the one at the other end running. I've seen them shut down & start up Voyagers, though, without seemingly the need for any preliminaries.

I'd never make an MP, I'm afraid, I'd be fired after a week for keeping telling everyone who complained about something "oh for goodness sake, get over yourself". What about the poor people who work at Bimingham N.S or Bristol T.M. and have Voyagers, HSTs and all sorts of DMUs standing outside...

The Class 66 Preservation Society. Anyone got a skip hire company after reading a thread about class 67s yet?

I couldn't tell you what gesture the driver of a 58 once made out of the window at me one time. I did have a photo of it, but I think i don't now. Anyway, why not see if you can guess.

Abellio? Oh yes, the ones that part own northern, is that right? It's so hard to keep track of all the name changes of these multinationals. * Incidentally, apropos another favourite topic, nice piece of selective journalism in that story: "An announcement could come this month and follows...

And easily confused with a graph of sales of the Sun.

So, are they envisaging dual-mode Voyagers, or, as this seems to be a long-term aspiration, whatever might come after them? Or would they terminate at wherever the wires get to, another victory for operational convenience? Since no one's talking about wires all the way to Bournemouth, they'd...

Need it be? Wouldn't it be convenient to just make the Reading bay overhead? That's all that's needed, surely, since electric XC services or freights are purely in the realms of the hypothetical. Why would anyone want to add all the complexity and expense of making any future extensions AC, when...

it's a new thing they're trying. Rather than closing the Doors 30 seconds early, they're trying it 11 minutes before time, in the hope that it might give them a chance of being on time. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be working.

How about Smallbrook Junction?

the thing I'm puzzled about (other than the fact that I've never understood why these murder cases are always the Front Page Story everywhere; is it just that people are unable to differentiate real life from soaps now, and think that these things are provided for their entertainment?), is why...

:lol: of course, with a Desiro or similar train with auto-closing doors, the closing-doors-in-advance scenario is largely academic anyway, as all the Guard will have to do will be press the button to lock them, and ring the Buzzer.

It's rather similar to how if a Bus is at a busy stop, there'll always be someone hurrying hopefully towards it, and if the Driver waits for everyone, they really would be there all day. Bus drivers get a lot of stick for "closing the doors in people's faces", but people have to be reasonable...

30 seconds? I think it's a minute at Northern, isn't it, there was some discussion about it a little While back. 30 sec doesn't seem too unreasonable, since the Train can only move off when them doors are closed & locked. Anyway, I'm sure staff in most places have a degree of discretion in...

tory betrayal? Why not blaim the Canadian owners, or the European head office of Bombardier in Berlin, for not making a competitive enough bid for the contract, or Siemens for making a product that so far has been delivered on time and seems to be pretty reliable? Perhaps Bombardier's Centre of...

If it was a standard pattern, wouldn't it be more convenient for most people? Doesn't having a standard pattern usually tend to encourages use? They do run at regular times, usually xx49 from Bristol T.M., but the rest of them turn off at Westbury towards Southampton and places. It seems to me...