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I was thinking about some other point of station operations which got me thinking there are no longer station pilots. So when was the last station pilot in London or any where else come to that?

BBC article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyz37zzp22o Article says A 25 wagon train was carrying 75.5 tons of fuel. So 3.02 tons of fuel per wagon????? What am I missing here? Would that would be 75.5 tons per wagon?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9dx1298v7o People have not been able to get their personal possessions as Network Rail say it is unsafe. One guy can't get his house keys or his passport so can't travel back to Norway. The photo shows people standing on the side of the coach which seems...

This is Radlett Rd in Watford where it goes under what was the London and Birmingham and now WCML. This is the route I drive into Watford. But what has always bugged me is this a tunnel or a bridge? This would have been built as double track widened at some point to 4 tracks. I assume the brick...

Accessing the underground timetables is quite useful but do TfL make it so difficult. Trying to help plan for somebody with limited abilities to get from Paddington to Waterloo. They have chosen to go by Bakerloo Line. I checked and saw that the Jubilee at Waterloo is step free and the Bakerloo...

I am trying find out when the eastbound section of the triangle closed. Shows freight only 1955 in a rail atlas. https://trainmap.co.uk/map.html?layers=disused This show it but not when completely closed. I am trying to find out if it was ever used to turn the travelling post office trains as...

Did the Metropolitan Line ever get a new signalling system? In 2009 I was working on enabling works for the new system. I also had a friend working on the main system in 2011/12. Just there is a lot of chat on a local group about signalling problems in the Wembley Park/Preston Road area. There...

I have just posted this in the comments to a Youtube video about the Broad Street line. I wonder if this rings any bells with anybody. Here's a question for anybody that has a detailed knowledge of old railways in the area. In the late 1970s early 1980s I went by car to meet friends in a pub in...

I am trying to find the dates of a British Railways strike in the summer of the mid 1950s. I am actually trying to collate where the family holidays were in which years and I know one year we went to a holiday in Dymchurch or Littlestone Kent and we had to go by coach. I thought the big rail...

Talking pictures has shown the Scotland Yard episode The White Cliffs Mystery again which has a lot of railway shots but where is the tunnel and the through station. You can see it here https://railwaymoviedatabase.com/the-white-cliffs-mystery/ The author is equally mystified. A tunnel like that...

This article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-63636260 on the BBC refers to Harefield Road in West Ruislip receiving 12 stikes but were is the bridge? The nearest Harefield Roads to West Ruislip are in Rickmansworth and Uxbridge and no where near any railways. Checking the...

I just been watching the film Crow Hollow released in 1952 so early British Railways era. There is a shot of a woman catching a train at Gomshall and Shere station which on on the Guildford to Dorking line. Before seeing the train or the station name a lower quadrant signal is seen in the...

I came ho me early in daylight and saw 60009 Union of South Africa minus tender at Watford Junc. There also looked like a low loader there. I saw on the internet that 60009 failed at Wolverton on the 22 Nov. A little surprised it couldn't be moved out at Bletchley. When was 60009 moved down to...