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Any tennis fans here? Just thought I'd start a Wimbledon thread as that time of year is approaching. My thoughts are that the mens champion this year could easily be any of the big three with Djokovic as the slight favourite, but it could conceivably be any of them. I don't think Murray has...

I heard good ol' Inspector Sands being called for at Kings Cross just now. Anyone know what happened?

Anyone else see that race?! Unbelievable - JB was 21st half way through and he won! Brilliant drive - one of the best I've ever seen.

Was taking a walk today and this rolled past. It's the ECML near Peterborough, and the consist is heading North. I guessed it was heading to Doncaster for some kind of heavy work or modification, but if someone here knows for sure it would satisfy my curiosity. I was taking wildlife photos at...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/13588664.stm Oh dear Lewis - that's not cool. Di Resta got penalised for a move that was a carbon copy of Lewis' on Massa at Lowes Hairpin and Di Resta said: "Hand up on that one, it was ambitous" - and he's a rookie. Lewis should know better...

Sitting at New Milton station (Hampshire) the other day, a train passed through and the signal at the end of the platform changed to a single caution aspect as the train passed it. No red. Straight to yellow. Next train - same result. I'm not familiar with that line, it's way out of my usual...

On ECML between Huntingdon and Peterborough this morning and this rolls past. Seems a way from it's home ground. I wonder how welcome this would have been here back in the 1930's!

Anyone know the story about the "military" looking house or building that is on the west side of the ECML between Finsbury park and the Copenhagen tunnels? It looks like it's built on stilts, has what looks like faux sand-bag effect bricks and a tall observation tower. If you look on...

Sometimes the timing makes a better shot that exposure or framing. This was taken this morning at Conington in Cambridgeshire. Waiting by the track with a load of other photographers but we were lucky - the 91 was approaching at twice the speed of the A4 and if we had been 500 yds up the line...

Took my first trip on a Javelin today. Covered HS1 and some old 3rd rail track too. First impressions: Great acceleration. But not so amazed by anything else. - Seats were not comfortable. Even Desiro's are better. - That infamous vibration (feels like poor yaw control) was still present...

Not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere - but anyone else seen the latest Tony Scott/Denzel movie - Unstoppable? Based on the events of the CSX 8888 incident in Ohio 2001. I was prepared to be entertained by a poor movie if you know what I mean, but it was actually very well put...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11748499 Discuss. I can't see a simple solution to this - it's going to be expensive, disruptive and probably prohibitively expensive.

Any race fans here? The title will be decided in Abu Dhabi this weekend. Anyone think/hope that Lewis will capitalise on that slim outside chance that he can win it? It'll take Alonso and Webber to not finish (possible if they collide) and Vettel to have a shocker. On the other hand, it's...

Any of you on this site? Please make yourselves known - I work on AC stock, but had a few questions of a technical maintenance nature for Diesel locos. Cheers.

Anyone watching the Eddie stobard program on Five? They're racing a truck and a train from Rugby to Mossend.

Has anyone here done this kind of thing (see image below). It's a trace from a GPS data logger showing position overlaid on google maps with data taken every 5 seconds on location, speed, altitude etc... The map speaks for itself, the red flag was the position of max speed (100.4mph) and...

For spotters out there, I don't know if it's a usual place for y'all to hang out, but I was in Basingstoke station and was amazed at the variety of what passed through in a 30 minute interval: It was a weekday evening and there were: Loads of South West EMU's and DMU's as you'd expect. XC...

With the internet being so easy to search, pretty much anyone can get the answer to any question quickly, but this one is quite interesting so here goes - and please be honest if you already knew it, or googled/wikipedia'd it!: The first ever journey by a car in the UK began from a rail...