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According to the Gloucester Citizen, the cat at Gloucester Eastgate on closure at the end of 1975 was called Dinky. It moved to Central with the staff.

In the live diagram extract (sorry if that's not absolutely the right technical term) posted at 1354 yesterday, how can signals LR 413 and 415 be off together, and a route set from both of their respective lines? Is there a wrong side interlocking failure going on?

Do these trains travel through Manchester Victoria, both westbound loaded and eastbound empty? When they reach Eccles, do they run round on the Up Chat Moss line or the Up Goods loop (which?) or do they propel down the branch to the wharf? I guess they run round there and do not propel up the...

Where a colour light stop signal (being a running signal, not a subsidiary, and not being a searchlight or a 2 or 3 aspect LED) has more than one lens or LED aperture (is this the correct term for an LED headed signal?), the one that shows red is normally the nearest to the driver's eyes, and so...

With reference to last Sunday's two postings about Buxton, I think all concerned agree that the present arrangements, with their acknowledged operating difficulties, are far from ideal, and sometimes even verge on the entertaining! The surviving signalbox is the former Buxton No.1 box. No.2...

I thought Manors fairly regularly, or at least reasonably occasionally, worked to Redhill from Reading towards the end of steam working, before the Tadpoles took over. 1613434598 With reference to the postings in January about the Grange which got to Huddersfield (6858 Woolston Grange, on 15...

I believe that when its signals were replaced by new colour lights (c.1920s?) the huge LNWR gantry at Rugby was carefully dismantled and sections of it re-used at other locations. These are known but (save as indicated here) I do not have the details to hand. I think one part was re-used for the...

I think the previous accident was almost exactly a year before the Abermule tragedy. It involved two good trains colliding at slow speed, on a snowy night, near Oswestry, in the Oswestry - Ellesmere section. The Cambrian management were baffled at how it could have happened, and invited the...

The Bala branch was not closed because of the reservoir severing its original route. A deviation of the railway was provided for in the Liverpool Corporation Act 1957 (which authorised the Treweryn Reservoir (later called Llyn Celyn). I think the big book on the Bala Branch (which I have, but am...

The WCML has no tunnels between Shugborough and Glasgow Eglinton Street. Apart from Preston Brook, just remembered that.

I have walked through quite a few disused tunnels, but none recently; I think I'm too old for it now unless the tunnel has been provided with a nice smooth ground surface and electric lighting. From cycling videos I see that that is now the case with Devonshire and Combe Down tunnels on the S&D...

I'm not sure whether the incident under discussion resulted in the damage speculated upon in this thread. My recollection, which I posted on 17 September 2020 at 2119, in a thread "Trains where they shouldn't have been / weren't route cleared" in the "Infrastructure and Stations" forum, was as...

May I thank the contributors to this thread, and in particular AM9, for the clearest and best explanation of basic electrical things that I have ever seen. It is very helpful to me in trying to comprehend what I have always only very partially understood. May I ask another question please...

Monmouth (closed 1959) and Brecon (closed 1962) have no service at all, never mind an Inter-City one!

I was at Exchange for the last evening on Friday 29 April 1977. I decided not to go on the special train as I did not think I would be able to see anything. That proved right as it was a Liverpool - Euston set of air conditioned Mk2 stock (nearly all Mk2f I think) so very brightly lit. The only...

Yes of course you can use my bit. Sorry I can't remember about the tables - I think they have a lip. I think Crewe Heritage Centre is still closed due to the virus. I'm one of the Exeter West operators but have not been there this year at all. Quite extraordinary times! John Prytherch.

I made only one journey by APT, in the short time they were in public service (was it early 1980s?) in the up direction from Glasgow to Euston on the service that left, I think, between 0800 and 0900. It was the first day of a fortnight's railroving, travelling first class. I was quite sleepy as...

The Redhill incident in the thread above, has reminded me of the incident at Dovey Junction, circa 1964, in the early days of DMUs on the Cambrian, (when steam was also still about). One evening, after dark, an up DMU from the Pwllheli line arrived at Dovey Junction. The usual token exchange...

I believe the LMS long wanted to eliminate the Flint bottleneck (Connah's Quay No. 2 to Muspratts Sidings) which was one of two breaks in the quadruple track from Chester to Llandudno Junction. I think some land may have been acquired, but the logistics and politics of getting four tracks...

Stockport Edgeley, the track serving the new Platform 0 is the reinstated Up Main. The platform itself stands on the site of the Up Goods. John Prytherch.