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Heard this at work earlier, hopefully a contract that can me pointed elsewhere.....

Have a look at paul87101 on Youtube...

Unless it was needed urgently at Barton (only Wolverhampton Drivers go there) and the reason given is a fudge?

Can't imagine that. Everyone except the Scottish Depots signs the Trent between Crewe and Euston...

I was shown a video of a 390 windscreen mounted vertically and deep frozen. It had a 1Kg iron block fired at it from a gas cannon, the block went straight through the screen but the anti-spalling liner stopped it. I can't imagine a 220/1 screen being any lower spec but of course a human weighs a...

The body came through the windscreen and struck him.

It's 125 from near Thankerton (over the top of the hill from Carstairs)to Lamington. The next 125 stretch is about halfway down Beattock to Beattock Village then from South of Village all the way to just South of Lockerbie.

Norton Bridge is 115mph both ways not 125. If we have visitors in the cab it always goes VERY quiet as we approach Linslade Tunnel on the Dn Fast! Berkhampstead is pretty impressive too although only 115 for a 221.

As far as I'm aware (and certainly in my day) you can't route-learn until you have passed for Driving, because until you have passed you aren't qualified to route-learn!

Very much so, I remember the whole project being a couple of hours from being shelved....

So why did we suddenly have a bunch of RT bods suddenly turn-up at Asfordby measuring windows and quoting crash regs? They were probably the same ones who wanted 390's banned from the infrastructure due to the 'unswept area' the windscreen wipers leave at the top on the windscreen, the area you...

No technically about it, its happened twice in the last couple of weeks, and I suppose anyone who actually gets struck by a train is technically trespassing in the first place?

Many years ago I got stopped in the Platform at Ealing Broadway, a young lady banged on the window to ask if I stopped at Hayes whilst her mate had climbed onto the first Cartic behind my 47 and was trying car doors....

A few years after my first (of two) we moved from near London to Lancashire and I changed TOC's. One Sunday I made a brew and sat down in the lounge with the paper, glancing down the garden the bloke I hit was standing at the garden gate staring at me.... The hairs on my are are standing up as I...

Correct. There is a possibility of industrial action. It will call at certain stations and carry out the full dispatch procedure. Station staff will ensure that no customers join the train.

Nothing to see here, move along.... the yellow line is there for a reason, as the bloke who bounced off the front corner of my 87 a few years ago at MKC found out.

35 hr week over a 4 day roster + Sundays. Most depots (except Polmadie) work a 5 day week and have every 5th week off as Rest Days. Roughly 50% Sundays and 50 (ish) % Saturdays. On and off times are very depot specific so can't comment really. Early book on and night shift allowance paid per...

Even though I'm trained on them I can't work out if a 'pendo would work electrically as a 7-car aux-converter wise? Anyone?

I remember an 071 and one of it's NI cousins in multi on a tour years ago, the performance was little short of astonishing...

They did, but its use was forbidden even with the coming of DVT's. Our (VTWC) Tm's still use flags daily as the last 'tip' between themselves and platform staff, 390's and 221's have bell-buzzer of course.