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I'll be glad to see the back of stamps. I'm in and out of the EU a lot and my passport is getting full. I do nearly have the full set of cross channel ferry ports though: Dunkerque, Calais, Eurotunnel, Dieppe, Le Havre, Caen, Cherbourg, St Malo and Santander. Just missing Roscoff and Bilbao.

With tongue in cheek (a bit!) to a lot of rail enthusiasts, everything will be a disappointment if it doesn't have seats stuffed with horse hair, incandescent light bulbs and mahogany walls, and be at least 10 carriages long, hauled by a steam loco.

Same applies on the Isle of Wight. If you've ever sat on a bus all the way from Ryde to Shanklin, you'll appreciate why the railway is still there, even with its awkward timetable. Some sort of light rail may be appropriate, but certainly closure would be deeply unpopular.

My experience last week as a car driver: Newhaven to Dieppe, nothing, just swipe & stamp, out in 5 mins as I'd paid the 20 quid for priority disembarkation. No sign of any infrastructure. Calais to Dover, the same utter chaos as normal but still swipe & stamp. Noticed some new booth structures...

The above is from the Southeastern stock replacement thread. Is this a realistic option? In the new world of GBR, a bit of joined up thinking could produce the following: Reinstate from store the 350/2s onto the London North Western services (reseat if necessary), and then cascade the DC...

I think the general assumption is that anyone wishing to travel from Reading all the way to London will spend 25 mins on an IET to Paddington.

As none of our oil comes from the Gulf, then supply won't be a problem for the UK. It's the cost that will become an issue.

One of the DTO's of 455702 has arrived by road at Basingstoke ROC. What they plan to do with it I have no idea. Source: photo on Facebook, from a very reliable source

Thanks for all your responses!

The 458/5s are off lease, so they are not SWR's to steal parts from.

I'm probably showing my age. In the 1980s there was an extensive TV ad campaign for TSB Bank with a real earworm jingle. "TSB, the bank that likes to say Yes"

It's the radio that likes to say "yes". I'll get my coat.

Just trying to update my records, I have withdrawn 153s as being in the following locations: Ely: 153301, 153304, 153315, 153319, 153351, 153355, 153357, 153381 Landore: 153320, 153333, 153367, 153369, 153909, 153910, 153921, 153922, 153926, 153935 Long Marston: 153330, 153332, 153356...

Trying to work this out: Have we now reached a point where sufficient amounts of trained drivers are the limiting factor with regards to further diagram introduction, rather than available units? It's not as acute a problem as before though, as all units planned to be off leased are now off...

Does that include stations on the other side? Frethun, Lille Europe, TGV Haute Picardie and a handful of suburban Parisian ones.

With the reduced payload required to send it that distance, that's a pretty good description.

Just to point out that it'd have to cross a lot of heavily guarded airspace before it reached the UK. A straight line from the westernmost part of Iran to the UK goes over the Eastern flank of NATO, namely Romania and Poland, which is very much set up for air defence (albeit with Russia in mind)...

Then peak hour Weymouth trains from Waterloo are first stop Basingstoke, that's 20 stations skipped (or 21 if you count Queenstown Road)

How many of the early builds had to go back for cab mods? Would this effectively put them at the back of the introduction queue?

I'd guess it was put on in the middle of the day rather than the peak, as very few if any would be travelling first class. Even in the 1990s, the Veps on that route carted around empty first class compartments between the peaks. 1774094200 I await the 458/4 withdrawal thread!