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Given that many older colour light schemes are being renewed/replaced with LED's, where is the oldest surviving working example on the national network?

Maybe Farringdon station is now not fit for purpose with the increase in passenger numbers - especially as it now has to deal with 3 main flows of passengers (i.e. TL, LUL and Lizzy line)

Excuse my ignorance but how have the platform crowds been "managed" at Farringdon since the opening of Thameslink in 1987/8 which has always been DOO? I used to commute through and work near Farringdon every day in the early 1990s and was either blind or deaf to happenings except that the...

Ironic that some of the main roads in South East London have been reduced to 20mph, yet you can still go up a residential side street and do 30mph. The signs are there...

No garage for me but one of my friends has had his converted into a spare room

Cheers thanks

Bugger, I'm meeting a friend from York tomorrow who has pre-booked tickets to London. Too early to say I guess as to service plan tomorrow morning (?)

Me too. I have many 35mm albums full of photos (and hard drives !) Big shock to Mrs Islineclear3_1 who will (most likely) want me out of the house to continue "doing train". This means, many of my photos won't see the light of day until I instruct in my will to make them publicly available...

On my daily commute (up and down the motorway) I have seen probably one 73-plate a day in the last 3-4 weeks. One of them was actually, a Tesla - a nice green one

You know you're getting old when.... ;) Yes I have found that certain sounds tend to be more intolerable/irritable now than in the distant past. But also I do get annoyed in people setting off fireworks anywhere, anytime without any consideration for others or animals, e.g. cats

I would leave out "sincerest apologies" and "deeply regret" as you boarded a train without a valid ticket and attempted to defraud the railway by short-faring The experts will be along soon to advise the best course of action

Hearing Charing Cross station has now been closed with 3 arrests

Clearly not in the minds of many people... I laid my (empty) wheelie bins flat last night with a couple of bricks inside to reduce the risk of them getting blown around.

Because we live in an inconsiderate society

What is Bachmann EFE? Are they Bachmann or EFE? I thought EFE made buses Are the Bachmann EFE models any good? The forthcoming Southern Booster locomotives are really tempting....

Dire rain on my way in this morning up from Kent but nothing out of the ordinary for this time of year. Just popped out in SE London and sun was trying to break through.... Missus was going to get train up to London but sensibly stayed at home So is the storm coming or has north Kent and...

Really !? Thanks for the heads-up :D Just had a quick look and yes, impressive stuff! Glad Bachmann are doing 1506; let's hope they number it 411.506. From the pictures, looks like the motor is in one of the driving coaches: let's hope this is moved to the brake compartment (I won't hold my...

Actually I forgot to check. I just had a quickie look over to check there was no damage during transit

Disliked the CEPs at refurbishment but grew fond of them as their time was coming up for withdrawal; the Bachmann 4-TEP certainly looks the part....

Well mine was delivered this morning so I'm looking forward to opening when I get home. Bachmann will only have to tool up a TSO then and their next release can be a jaffa cake 4-car version