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Hi All, I'm out in London tonight, and want to get a late train back to Claygate. But I'm slightly nervous that the last train out is at an odd time, not one that matches any of the other clockface times for this service. Does anyone know how often the 2G75 23:50 Waterloo to Guildford gets...

Hi All, (EDIT: OOPS, I meant Class 350 Desiros, not the APT, though that would be even more interesting...) I've had the pleasure of travelling on an express service from Kings X to Cambridge lately on a 365 Networker Express and it was absolutely lovely. It made me wonder why we are...

Hi All, I've been reading Roger Ford's Informed Sources column with interest regarding the various new rolling stock schemes that the previous government was putting in place, but it suddenly occurred to me that I must be missing something. This may be a total newbie question, but how do...

Hi All, I remember getting an express (it may even have been called an InterCity) train from Southampton Parkway to London Waterloo in 1993, which stopped only at Basingstoke, and was really pretty fast. I know this route is now run by 450s and 444, but I can't for the life of me think what...

Hi All, I stood and watched a couple of MTU powered HSTs leave Reading the other day, and stood up at the driver's end, looking through the cab window. I noticed that all the drivers pushed it up to notch 1 when pulling away and left it there for several seconds before moving up the notches...

Hi All, I was watching a few trains go past Stevenage on the ECML yesterday when there was a long gap in the Intercity trains, and when a train finally appeared it was going very slowly. When it finally got near me I realised it was a southbound class 66 hauling a load of concrete blocks...

Hi all, I was looking at the stalwart IC225 while passing the East Coast Main Line last week, and it occurred to me that things had moved on a fair bit in railway traction since the days of the APT (IC225's heritage), yet the design was clearly a very good one. Given recent major...

Hi All, I was looking at the IEP discussions and I wondered why there was a shift towards EMUs these days over loco-hauled services. I don't have any axe to grind, but on an engineering level a) it seems to complicate a larger number of vehicles (carriages with traction equipment instead...

Hi all, I'm new here, so apologies if I've posted in the wrong forum. I used to live right next to the ECML at Hitchin, in fact under the shadow of the enormous sidings that used to be just south of the Hitchin South junction. Back in the late 90's (ish) the site was turned over to a...