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Seeing as we have a 'Favourite Films' thread running, how about another for your favourite literature. The last novel I read was Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File, with Gulliver's Travels before that. My favourite remains Nineteen-Eighty-Four. As for non-fiction (non-railway-non-fiction)...

Two friends of mine are coming up from New Malden to Hitchin on Saturday (18th). They both have Oyster cards. I've advised them to cross London on their Oysters and get tickets from Finsbury Park to Hitchin, forgetting of course that they would have to touch out. Was this a mistake and, if...

Having just found a bus pass leaflet for my mother (who turned 60 in April), I was looking through it and discovered the following. Now, that describes me precisely (hope you don't mind if I don't say why). This has been the case since I was seventeen years old, so for twelve years. I reckon...

Having re-read an article on the new port at London Gateway, I've noticed that the branch line feeds all traffic towards Tilbury and London. This has got me wondering if some form of access from the north is possible, to take advantage of all the Ipswich-Nuneaton improvements and avoid the NLL...

For once I do believe you're right. Thread split from here

As a response to the Ugliest Modern Traction thread, what looks the nicest? My overall vote would have to go for the Deltics, because they somehow managed that combination of power and beauty that very few things do (although my somewhat-biased vote for the best ever would be the Gresley A1s in...

The north-eastern USA has just been hit by a combination of Hurricane Sandy, a cold weather system from Canada and a massive storm surge. New York took the worst of it, and bits of the subway are flooded. I've just been watching the story on the news, and the pictures look rather frightening...

Having not been down the Great Western way for a while, I was rather surprised to see a Sprinter arrive at Reading with the Basingstoke shuttle this evening. 150002, so one of the oldest units. Does this happen much?

I went back to Aberdeen a while ago during the floods disruption. Since I was on an Advance, this resulted in me having to change the dates/times of travel and having to pay more money, to the equivalent of slightly more than a SSR. With it being possible that dates and times might change...

I used to be a member on Railwayscene, something I forgot all about until I received this message recently. I'm not sure if this is genuine or not, but I'm posting it as public information just in case it is. Whether it is or not, what would anyone reading this advise me to do? I'm...

In Aberdeen, on Tuesday and Saturday (the 3rd and the 7th of July), I saw what appeared to be an eight-coach Caledonian Sleeper formation with six sleeping cars. This seems unusually long, I've seen six-coach and seven-coach rakes before, but not eight-coach. Have they changed the formation...

I've sometimes been a bit curious about steam loco tenders and what ran with what, especially the oddities. I don't just mean how engines such as Mallard switched from non-corridor to corridor and back, I mean such things as the Royal Scots. They started out with little Fowler tenders, not...

Seems to be a possibly interesting programme tonight on BBC4 at 8 o'clock, The Last Days of Steam. It's about that interesting period, BR steam before the Modernisation Plan (and finishes before Silk, and advantage from my point of view). Not sure what they are going to say. I'll be able to...

This is a bit of a 'might have been' scenario. From here and other sources, we know that the Networker project was going to go a lot farther than the five classes we ended up with. It's just general curiosity, coming from a post in a previous thread (which I'm too lazy to find). I hope it's...

...involved putting down a layer of aggregate, leaving it overnight and going up and down it with a road-sweeper the next morning without doing anything else? Oh, and ignoring the layby outside my house that we had emptied especially for the purpose.

I'm heading to Lakenheath in a couple of weeks' time (Sunday the 3rd of June). If I miss the last train back to Cambridge, is there an easement available to allow me to head back via Thetford, since the very last train heads that way?

I've become interested in the Menai Bridge recently. When the tubular version burnt down, I understand the replacement was single-track and slower as well as having a road deck on top. It's a cause of traffic congestion now, and there's been various discussions about replacing it. Is the rail...

The Government has started to consider ideas for generating money to invest in the road network. One of these seems to be road privatisation. Various ideas have been floated, including shadow tolls paid by (presumably) the Highways Agency to road-owning companies. Others include tolling some...

Which short sections of single line can be dualled to make a big difference to services? OK, I'm not talking about the whole line between Salisbury and Exeter, Oxford and Worcester or any of the other big schemes. More about little bits like Aberdeen-Dyce, where a short section of double track...

In 1935, the LNER gave us a Silver Jubilee, with spectacular results. In 1977, BR did the same, but it was slightly more ordinary. GNER missed out on a Golden Jubilee in 2002, but with EC giving us the new Flying Scotsman and West Riding Limited, what are the chances of a Diamond Jubilee this...