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Another great day out on our preserved Hastings with it's mutiplicity of carriages forming this 6 car train. Stratford upon Avon was the destination and the train ran pretty much to time throughout and those who wanted to check out Shakespeare's neighbourhood had plenty of time to do just that...

Another Hastings power car will soon have it's main line status confirmed - 60019 (ex 1013 or 202001 as it was in it's NSE days on the East Grinstead line). Hastings Diesels name their power cars and I am hearing they already have a name for 60019. Personally I would've liked to see a King...

Paid a visit to my colleague at Lewes signal box Saturday afternoon. It was right in front of the box that BR and East Sussex County Council colluded between them to close 7 miles of railway to Uckfield - an act of utter vandalism they would probably never have gotten away with a year or two...

20-25 years ago I was out and about checking out some locations on the long closed Cuckoo Line that ran from Polegate through Heathfield and Eridge - this will be the 50th year since that railway was closed between Hailsham and Redgate Mill Junction. Without exception - all the towns that...

1Z84 departs 3 Bridges for Bristol TM on 6 December - Tangmere offered something rather different from our standard DC fare. Contrasts with the near complete 700 depot in the background. The relay room roof at 3B is an appalling place to try and get a half decent photo of something...

Surprise, surprise - joined up thinking works, and more surprises at the National Rail Awards as the bowtie brigade congratulate each other once again with the "Alliance" getting really high marks for, in effect, managing to do what BR was doing 20 years ago and managing railway operations from...