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Quite a bit of the Whitchurch - Chester (Tattenhall Junction) line was used for storing condemned wagons (nearly all 16 ton mineral wagons I think) between the final freight closure of the line in November 1963 and tracklifting in 1965. I think most of the storage was north of Broxton, at the...

On the evening of Tuesday 19 April, at about 8.5 pm, a pair of empty Voyagers (but with most train lights on) passed Warrington Bank Quay on the Up Goods. I'm sure there was some reason for this, but cannot easily guess what.

The November 1964 closure of Blackpool Central rather than North of course seemed barmy to all who prefer to travel by rail, but I think the concept of closing Blackpool Central and using the site of its approaches all the way from Blackpool South, including the site of the carriage sidings...

I have enjoyed many very pleasant stays at some of these hotels in the past, mostly over fifteen years ago, and mostly when railroving. I have particularly appreciated their generally very comfortable rooms, and grand staircases. These days I use lifts but when I was a bit fitter I descended...

The box in the picture is Stalybridge No.4.

I think Pontrilas can switch out.

When I first started using the CLC, 1975 to 1980, the service was all DMU. The fasts called only at Widnes (ex Farnworth) and Warrington Central, Oxford Road and Piccadilly where they usually terminated in P14 and started back about 5 minutes later. These were four car units with the two outer...

I was very fond of these units, particularly AM10s. I nearly always rode in the motor coach and enjoyed the music! Merle Haggard's post (20 March) is interesting. I am sure that an AM10 and an AM4 were definitely not meant to work in multiple. But because it was never actually forbidden, it...

And Onibury still in use.

I think most of the Gloucester - Hereford services (via Ross) were self-contained although I would not be surprised if some services attached a through coach from Paddington. A few may have worked (unadvertised as through services) Hereford - Cheltenham; but advertised as separate Hereford -...

Thank you all very much. I hadn't noticed the small number above the triangle.

Can anyone please explain the meaning of the sign showing a black triangle in a white circle. I looked through a catalogue of signs but could not find it. These appear to be multiplying all over the network. From videos that have been put online in the last two years or so, I have noted just...

I am now 70! I have several happy childhood memories; but if one train has to "encapsulate" my childhood it would be a 14xx plus auto trailer working between Monmouth and Ross on Wye. We lived in Monmouth from 1957-1959. Both our home in Dixton Close, and our primary school on the way to...

Yes this was the accident at Audenshaw Junction (then controlled from the power frame in Stockport Junction (Guide Bridge) Box, on the evening of 20 May 1970. It was caused by the signalman interfering with the interlocking behind the frame.

Sorry this is probably a silly question but yesterday I noticed, from a Birmingham - Liverpool emu, a blue 08 shunter moving an emu in the new South Western livery into or out of the new long Alstom shed at Ditton, where they repainted the AM90 Pendolinos. Would I be right in guessing that South...

I have never read a report or seen a picture of a streamlined "Duchess" at London Road. I think Stanier pacifics only got there on running in turns after overhaul at Crewe Works, usually on locals from and to Crewe! As far as I have read, they were too big for the Stoke route, but Britannias...

Didn't the Ravenglass & Eskdale have a change of gauge at some point?

The closure of the Woodhead route has always struck me as the biggest railway blunder in my life. I often think long and hard about it. I think we would have lost the Worsborough Branch and Wath Yard with the demise of the coal industry. But the Manchester and Sheffield fast main line, lost to...

Seriously, my thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is working so hard to sort out this crisis, as I am sure a lot of people are; and for all the inconvenienced passengers. I have had only four rides on these trains, three on what I still like to call the Western Region (Gloucester -...

One other line that was built, and inspected, but never opened for a regular service - Drybrook to Mitcheldean Road. 1620592766 I have always thought that one of the biggest failed projects was that for conversion to oil firing of many steam locomotives. I think there were actually two projects...