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My wife has said that she wants for her birthday a trip on a sleeper service. I booked it yesterday, staff discounted, from Euston to Edinburgh. The berths allocated are 14U and 13L. Are these two allocations in the same compartment? Sent from my SM-G800F using Tapatalk

Some time ago (quite a long time ago!) I posted on here asking whether it was legal, decent etc for the Company who gave me a settlement arrangement to withdraw my Safeguarded travel facilities. See here for the original thread http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=99660 Well, I...

I am sitting here watching the 1955 film the Dam Busters on Channel 5 and the announcement at the end of each ad break says, "And now back to the Dam Busters. This film contains offensive language". Now, the only offensive language I can think of is the odd word 'ruddy' and the name of...

Is on a trailer on the A50 near M1 j25 --- old post above --- --- new post below --- 31465!

Spotted this today. Turned off the A50 onto the A6 north going towards Derby. All I could see of the number was 3741 but it was in EWS livery. Can anyone make a positive identification? Another one for RVEL? https://youtu.be/6Q-CaLXZcPs

To the very knowledgeable folk of Rail UK Forums. [/butter up] I am currently running a Pub Quiz at my local, and rather than get the questions from one of the many sites available on line, I tend to write the questions from scratch. The quiz takes the form of a ten question picture round...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, My mother is visiting me from Brighton an has travelled by train this evening (Friday). Apart from her disappointment at not getting a seat with a window, and a number of very excitable youngsters on their way home, she was happy with the journey. The...

I hear on the news there has been a fire on a Japanese Bullet train. It seems from reports that a passenger covered himself in oil and set light to himself and two people had heart attacks. I hope that those injured make a full and rapid recovery...

As I posted in another thread recently, DBS are reportedly losing £5m a month and have put a number of 66s into store. I have now heard that Engineering staffs are being offered redundancy. Are they in such deep doo - doos because of their operating practices, failure to compete effectively...

I am an experienced Railwayman, but my specialism is Engineering of T&CS. Reading the Quintinshill thread, there is some terminology which I don't understand. Can someone explain what is "blocking back", when is it done and how/why? --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Damned auto...

37424 and I belive 37416 (although I may be wrong with that number) are to be given a major exam and are to be returned to traffic BT Direct Rail Services.

I am not going to go into details, as these have been in the news over the last few days, where an individual apparently decided to take their own life rather than face up to the accusations of trolling. First, it seems after a little research that the term trolling is not very well defined...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nottingham-university-fire-new-158m-4249870

I have to do the periodic maintenance on a class 37/0 load reg on Monday, but having never done one on a 37 before, where is it? :oops: :| :lol: :roll:

Does anyone on here know how the secondary dooerlocking on mk2 coaches is communicated from one vehicle to the next? Is it through the TDM jumpers? Thanks.

I might be a bit of a grammar nazi on this but it really grates with me when spurious apostrophes are used, particularly on signs that are professionally manufactured. For example, there is a taxi firm local to me that has the sign on every car that says **** ***** Taxi's. Why put an apostrophe...

I have noticed a few posts on these forums over the years in which posters make no secret that they work for a particular TOC/FOC and there is little or no effort to disguise their name or place of work. At my previous place of work (I left at the end of March but would still not criticise my...

I recently left a rail company (I shan't say which) because they felt I should leave and a package was agreed where I was paid a severance payment of several thousand pounds. This is called a settlement agreement. I would have preferred to remain in their employment but they didn't so I agreed...

I am currently sitting on a train at Edinburgh Waverley and there is an issue with the seat reservations. The electronic reservation signs above the seats say 'this seat may be reserved'. People like myself are taking a seat and then being moved. It isa Cross Country service. Any comments on...

Actually due to a blown turbo as evidenced by the oil down the bodyside.