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Dear all, Hopefully a simple question. Are pendo traction motors axle sprung or located elsewhere on the train. Got ambushed by a know it all last night while working and wanted to be sure about the true location. Cheers

Hi All, My wife and i recently undertook a Inter-rail journey - we blogged and videoed it for my wife's company - see the videos here. Part 1 - was filmed at home. The remainder were filmed on the rails. 1 - http://youtu.be/zZ3Sw39oH0s - intro 2 - http://youtu.be/w8CNJ69pcUA - Dover -...

Hi all. My wife and i recently undertook a European rail holiday - we visitied Monaco - i went a little crazy :) http://youtu.be/iE5CQkvcTfc iE5CQkvcTfc Unfortunately not viewable via mobile devices, yet. Cheers Karl

Here is some video footage i shot the other night on the Cally Sleeper. http://youtu.be/UYj06jvgM8c 1st Song is performed by my old band, i'm the singer. Enjoy :) Ive added the new link now, sorry for the delay.

Hi all, I'm absolutely into music. I've been fortunate enough to sing with a number of big artists in my short life so far, some of them have had no 1 hits. All will be revealed in due course. My blog http://thebigmansings.blogspot.co.uk/ has the first 3 stories in my non railway music...

On monday i will be signing my life away to the woman i have loved for 7 years. Any of you who have met me in the past will know my lovely Partner Tracey - she even likes trains too :) - well on Monday at 13:30 we will finally be getting married. We have been together for 7 years now and only...

Had a wonderful day on my first visit to the Great Central Railway - I decided to take all my steam photos in Black and White, basically an experiment on my part to see how it would turn out. Enjoy. http://britishtransport.fotopic.net/c1594576.html Karl :)

Ok, now i have made my mind up on what to do this weekend. Not chasing Railtours in the West Mids anymore, not gonna go to the GCRN Diesel gala this year as i have been to too many Diesel Galas this year. So I'm gonna go to the GCR Steam Gala on Saturday. Anyone gonna be there? Looks like a...

Hello, I noticed at railtourinfo.co.uk that on the 11th October that a number of Railtours are going to be going through the West Midlands areas, i was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of obtaining the times for the following Railtours? Saturday 11th The Ffestiniog...

A little late, but i was in Norfolk last weekend and was able to travel with my lovely lady to Gt Yarmouth, only got the one trip behind the Spooooooon but it was worth it. Here are the photos. http://britishtransport.fotopic.net/c1590351.html Enjoy. Karl :)

Here are my photos from the EKR EMU days hosted by the excellent EPB preservation group. Spot Josh (ekr123) working his little bum off in the Buffet car. http://britishtransport.fotopic.net/c1584812.html Enjoy Karl :) PS captions to be added later as i'm off to bed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7617363.stm I am totally in shock, as an avid fan of the Floyd this sees my dreams of watching Pink Floyd play live and reforming in tatters, i really feel for his family, RIP Richard Wright :(

Hi Everyone, I took a day trip down to Dawlish Warren and took a walk to Dawlish on Saturday, getting pics of the specials (Western & 47+33 combo) along the Sea Wall and service HST's + others. Unfortunately, it was overcast for most of the day, but i tried my best and here are the photos...

Hi Everyone, I notice that there are a couple of Charters in the West Country to Kingswear for the Dartmouth Regatta and Penzance this comming Saturday. I'd like to phot them somewhere (not strictly on the sea wall but its an idea so far) and was wondering if anyone had the timings for them...

Hi Everyone i found this at the Sittingbourne And Kemsley steam railway website http://www.sklr.net/ Such a shame for this wonderfull little line, especially as its the first steam railway line i ever went on as a very young kid. Hope it can be saved. Karl :(

Here's a short snippet from when i was driving the Class 117 DMU a few weeks ago at the Nene Valley Railway. For all you 2 tone fans ;) <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jG6ugOMhsvo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen"...

Not something i do very often, and i will freely admit to having little bus knowlege, (so if the comments on the photos are wrong forgive me i tried to research them the best as i could) here are the pictures taken from only my second Bus Rally. While trying to cover all aspects of British...

A Little late than i had planned in posting (due to being snowed under with work), these are the photos i took from the 2nd Aug at the Spa Valley Railway Summer Diesel Gala. http://britishtransport.fotopic.net/c1557476_1.html Karl :)

Is anyone going to the Spa Valley railway diesel gala this weekend? I'm gonna be there on Saturday. Karl :)

My 30th birthday came and went in March, I was given a fantastic present by my family of a days tuition on Driving a Class 117 DMU at the Nene Vally Railway. I had to wait to do this until yesterday, and it was great fun. Pictures can be seen here...