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It’s already been put on real trains…

The Class 47s were for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, too, but I meant that East London depots rather than any other depots around the country were the ones that chose to have them. But, being from there myself, East London/Essex, I see lots of Union Jacks and St. George’s flags flying...

The Class 357s having a darker roof is a continuation of what happened with the Trenitalia c2c livery, which has a darker grey roof than the light grey roof that the National Express c2c livery has. As the other units have been vinyled instead of re-painted, the livery on their roofs haven’t...

Yes, you get some views of the coast between Leigh-on-Sea and Chalkwell looking out of the right-hand side of the train, and also get to see the ruins of Hadleigh Castle, if looking out of the left-hand side of the train in the direction of travel (towards Southend-on-Sea), up the hill, between...

I was searching for a thread about it as well - I’ve just made an account at # viaduct and started adding trips.

Yes, sorry.

There are some Class 08 shunters around in TOC liveries too, which will presumably also be re-painted into the GBR livery at some point. Northern have 4 Class 08s, all of them in East Midlands Trains livery I believe, West Midlands Trains have 2, 1 of which is in West Midlands Railway livery...

Do you not think that it is legitimate, for example, if you are travelling between, say, somewhere outside the Network Railcard area to somewhere in the Network Railcard area, to buy separate tickets to and from the station outside to just inside the Network Railcard area (e.g. Manningtree, if...

I seem to remember that e.g. Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointers had engines which were a lot quieter than those in the Enviro 200s, Wright StreetLites, and Optare Versas which came after them, which had a lot more vibration. I seem to remember that perhaps the same was true of double deckers as well...

We don’t know for sure yet, but we’ll probably find out in not too long, on or before the 20th of September, when Chiltern is re-nationalised, because a photo of one of their Mark 5A sets, which runs with the Class 68s, re-liveried in GBR livery ready for that occasion has already leaked out, so...

Will future fleets need to have more spare units ordered for slack if more extreme weather makes derailments more likely in the future? Either due to heat, or landslips due to flooding, etc. So that there will be units ready to replace any units damaged in derailments, while they are repaired...

That’s why the Dyson Airblade type are better - as per the name, the sheet of air jetted out is meant to be a blade which scrapes the water off your hands, rather than the air being warmed - hence they work best if you put in and pull your hands in and out of it as quickly as possible as many...

Does the seller not know what they’re from?

I find the same problem with the FLIRTs’ toilets - the water barely stays on. Class 700s’ non-accessible toilet’s doors are roller doors, which roll forward and back and bang open and shut noisily when not in use, whenever the train accelerates or brakes.

Why? I had presumed that the AT300/IET was a Japanese design from HITACHI HQ, rather than the former AnsaldoBreda - the first ones were built in Japan, before any were built in Italy. The Frecciarossa/ETR 1000/V300 is an ex-AnsaldoBreda, pre-Hitachi Rail Italy, design, yet I haven’t heard of...

So locomotives-wise, we might see the Class 91 before the Class 68! Chiltern won’t become GBR/DfTO until the 20th of September, a week after that.

I doubt it, because 51 out of the 74 of them (69%) have just been re-painted into the white-and-magenta Trenitalia c2c livery, which was surprisingly switched part-way through the re-painting programme to the GBR | Anglia livery for the final 23 units (31%). So I think they’ll be among the last...

It was in triple grey when it carried the ESH livery, prior to the new EPR livery, a few months ago: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/epr-europhoenix-rail-class-60s-ex-esh-dbi-rail-land-recovery.292578/post-7786214

Would thicker, rubber, flooring, rather than a thinner sheet of vinyl, help to absorb some of the vibrations and reduce noise, if carpet is hard to keep clean?

Just to be clear and unambiguous for the other people here (I know that you yourself know because you’re the one who posts the information about the Class 357 re-paints in their dedicated thread), 357 203 is the 5th Class 357 in GBR | Anglia livery, due for its first run out in passenger service...