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43106: Did you say that your nautghty bits are "woefully small" are have I just got confused with your punctuation? Seriously, though, you are not alone in your praise of HSTs. Just finished reading Stanley Hall's Railway Milestones and Millstones and noted his comment in the final chapter...

Sadly, with the school holiday season upon us, more incidents of this nature may be reported over the next six weeks......

Hello Rob 70, sorry to hear weren't successful this time. Interesting to note that your experiences were so similar to mine (see my reply in your original thread).

Two summers ago I applied for a train driver job (Euston-Watford DC line) with the forerunner of LOROL, i.e. Silverlink. My experiences may therefore be useful to you, Rob 70. I was pleased to be invited to take some aptitude tests at Silverlink's offices in Old Street, London. Like you...

More to do with the power supply to the signalling equipment, I understand.

I don't know what the turnout was in the referendum. The % voting will be interesting.... There's no excuse for not voting, a pre-paid envelope is always supplied..... Did 6T get away OK after I went off duty???

You are quite mistaken. RMT is the union that negotiates for signallers. I received my ballot paper today and voted against action. In the current climate I consider Network Rail's two-year offer quite reasonable....... Not sure how the ballot will turn out. When the union organised a...

Very good news indeed. It would be a perfect replacement for the EWS class 90 that is used to provide motive traction for the Virgin Mark 3 rake that sees WCML service. Any information on the livery to be applied to 87002?

Anything that the Daily Mail prints should be treated with suspicion. In the circles I move in it is known as the Daily Forger.

What I can't understand is why they were trying to board the train when they clearly had a set of wheels instantly available to take them to the next station.

Probably not. If Paul Jackson is contemplating legal action is he not extending the distress and trauma for all parties, including himself? A question for drivers out there: When you accepted your train driving job offer, surely you were accepting the possibility of involvement in a...

Yes, but the point is that people who commit suicide in this way are really not well enough to think through the implications. I have pointed this out on a previous thread and must declare a personal interest after my mother died in front of a freight train at Harrow in 1995. It is an...

Yep. 508s can only run third rail.

Always worth consulting British Railway Track: Design, Construction and Maintenance, edited by G.H. Cope, 6th ed., The Permanent Way Institution, 1993.

Not every station is equipped with an end-of-platform signal. There is a rule book provision that if a train overshoots a station by no more than 400 metres, then, with the signaller's authority and a number of other conditions being met, that the train can set back. This can arise during...

What a grand old lady. And obviously perfect for route learning activities. Curious to know, with it being Chiltern, what safety equipment is fitted to it? AWS? TPWS? ATP?

The "Stobart Pullman" set arrived at Wembley Traincare late Sunday night/early Monday morning. 12 coaches, including 1 in traditional Pullman livery and 2 Mk 1s. They looked pretty smart and interiors looked bright and welcoming. Attached were 3 DRS class 47s: 47802 and 47501 at the south...

I believe there's also one (or more) of these at Reading. They are fitted at Leeds because of the hazards associated with the triangle of tracks to the south-west (?) of the station. The most recent postings are correct to say that if the SPAD signal lights then it means that a SPAD has...

Hmmm, a few mishaps on the WCML the last couple of days. Punters wishing to park their cars in Kings Langley station car park were unlucky today, with Police tape blocking the way. It was touch and go whether my children would get home on Friday, but by 17:00 all seemed to be well, with...

No snow in the south-east, but minor chaos on the WCML as 1G07 hit a tree (or debris from a tree) just north of Bletchley this morning. The Pendolino returned to Wembley Traincare with a broken (north end) windscreen. Then the lines came down just south of Bletchley on the slow lines...