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Which Germany are they from?

Having just seen references to "Railman" and "Leading Railman", what were the grades that BR staff had? I know there were sleeve stripes.

They can certainly be done fairly quickly on heritage lines.

Yes, they're called roller blinds. Frankly, route numbers would be good to have back.

Well, you didn't have to spend so longer starting the engine up or shutting it down.

Yellow front is no longer mandatory, but still considered good practice, especially if you have a line with a lot of level crossings.

Wonder when we'll see a 357 in the new livery? They were undergoing a refresh under c2c before renationalisation anyway.

Many of these changes were to multiple units, where you just needed to change ends of the vehicle.

SBB CFF FFS doesn't produce a good scoring round on Countdown though.

I had a similar hotel power failure on Nightjet in 2021. They turned the loco off and on again. It was a Vectron too!

West Coast would be a reasonable name though.

That video makes clear that regional identifiers will remain. Are they going to merge c2c and GA into a single "Anglia"? They were distinct operations in NSE days - and indeed were different companies under Grouping!

The British flag should not be the sole property of the right.

Most sleepers have historically not had full catering vehicles unless they are doing significant amounts of daytime running. Even then, those carriages would generally only run for part of the journey. It makes no financial sense to run a carriage that will be unused for most of the night.

BBC News - The 1980s 'British Disneyland' near Corby that never happened - BBC News The place would have needed a lot of rail infrastructure to work. Including probably electric wires, which were only as far as Bedford at the time.

This is Germany. The reputed efficiency, if it ever truly existed, died long ago.

Consider it an overnight trip on vintage rolling stock and you'll enjoy it more.

It was far more common in the past, especially for international journeys. Victoria even had a dedicated customs shed for it.

The advertising ones would be. Also, some of the individual liveries on the 91s.

BR only did repaints during scheduled overhauls, I believe. Some locos never went blue and were withdrawn green.