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Not sure if this is the right section, but, While I was out walking the dog i found this old sign in the bushes, after giving it a wipe (it was covered in moss and mud) I saw it was an old railway sign, it was on some old...
Hi, just booked a XC ticket from Sheffield to Plymouth on the 17th, I was wondering if there is any chance I will be going on an HST? Or if not any ideas on what might be taking me there, hoping for anything other than a Voyager really.
Thanks.
DJT.
While out walking the dog on former BR/NCB land yesterday i found this and was just wondering what its for, it was next to a 4 foot piece of rail that the pikeys etc have gradually been chopping down since it was about 20 foot long, at first i thought someone had chopped a very thin (about 5mm)...
Looked on the SYPTE website today and in the media section they have the headline "A green light for electric trains?" and underneath this they have a photo of an HST :roll: (43048)
http://www.sypte.co.uk/
When a brand new 66 or 70 arrives at the docks, roughly how many miles do they already have on the clock (if they do have a clock), in other words how many miles are driven for testing purposes in the US?
Thanks
Mindless Idiots (i can think of other words for these people, however they probably are not suitable for on here)
http://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/89911/arsonists-attack-railway-line.aspx
Just seen five DBS 66s go through Treeton about half an hour ago, was too far away to get the numbers, the leading loco was in DBS red the other four were all EWS, does anyone know the details of this movement please?
Just got back from walking the dogs, i was in a wood that used to be some railway sidings next to the Orgreave Colliery and Coke Ovens site in South Yorkshire, apart from all the usual railway evidence like sleepers and ballast there were also lots of these rubber pipes strewn around and i was...
Couldnt see a thread on this yet, mods remove if it has already been covered - what a silly person, died just for a cigarette
http://news.aol.co.uk/2011/06/28/man-decapitated-after-falling-off-tube-train-secretly-trying-to/
If i was for example going from sheffield to worksop on the sheffield-lincoln line before pacers/DMUs, does anyone know what type of traction would have got me there?
Thankyou
Dave
If this has already been mentioned then could a mod please remove.
This seems like a non-story typical of The Star these days, this paper has gone downhill IMO...
Yesterday i was talking to the security guard at Tinsley yard (whats left of it) and i managed to persuade him to let me take one of the red flashing lights from the back of a train (there were four on the floor next to his office).
I didnt realise until today that every now and then it flashes...
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