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Entering France via the Portsmouth ferry at St Malo recently: One shuttle bus of foot passengers, two staff processing, I saw someone get photographed, but I was through with no questions, no photo, no fingerprints, no stamp. And most people were through in a couple of minutes each. My last exit...

Paul Bartlett’s website has photos of some 1914-built SECR ballast brakes lasting to at least 1985. See https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/srshark I’ve a photo of one of them too, but no access to post it at the moment. Also recall a thread about them on rmweb, but can’t find it at the moment...

Yes I think I only noticed 03s as station pilots on the ER

From my 1979/1980 edition of Inter City Railway Society’s “Shunter Duties”, I counted the number of duties specifically described as station pilots or with station pilot duties among others, and came up with the following, by region: LMR 21 ER 26 ScR 9 SR 7 WR 18 for a total of 81. Entirely...

True, but as you can’t preserve one of everything, I’d say the vehicles themselves aren’t massively important, I’d say explaining the monitoring function would better done with text/pics/video/interactive displays, even actual camera footage from a monitoring train, rather than a generic DMU...

Always hard to define uniqueness: to me it's no more than a 150 with some doors and windows blocked off and various bits of kit bolted on. More of a footnote than a chapter in railway history?

Anyone got access to the early 1980s issues of "Shunter Duties"? Would be interesting to see how many pilot duties there were.

Hand dryers on many 158s are beyond feeble. Very narrow sinks in IET small toilets, hard to get your hands under without touching the back and dripping on the floor when your fingertips are under the sensors. Sensors that aren't aligned with the symbols for soap, water, air. Mind you, I also...

Looks to me like there's a ... after the word South, as if the remainder of the DRC description has been truncated.

Often (but not exclusively) found on Northern's Penistone line and Sheffield-Moorthorpe-Leeds services

Belux trains gives you planned compositions, searchable by class etc https://www.beluxtrains.net/

For rail freight combined with river freight and scenery, the Rhine gorge around the Lorelei / Boppard / S of Koblenz isn't bad.

A perfectly toasted teacake. Simple things!

Not the 1960s, but 1956, when my partner's late mother travelled from Bradford W Yorks to Mayrhofen Austria. A booklet from travel company Inghams, with a loose separate Edmonson-style ticket for the last leg Jenbach-Mayrhofen (scan of front and back). I don't know how she got from Bradford to...

Know any big road bridge schemes under way in W or S Yorks?

Aha, didn't find that thread. Thanks.

By chance, I caught Breedon No3 trundling along the Hope Cement branch today. But it wasn't whistling. Did they do something to them, as my recollection of them on Skegness summer trains was a distinct whistle?

Personal experience: I’m prone to seasickness if it’s even mildly rough, on ships and boats of all sizes including my worst ever on a hydrofoil thing in the Bay of Naples, but I was 100% fine on an SRN4. My partner on the very same SRN4 crossing was distinctly green around the gills and she’s...

I’ve been on a Leicester to Ramsgate mystery excursion that went via Dartford, but it came back via Bromley (in 1982/83 I think - I was at Uni and quite annoyed that a mystex took me to home territory). However, growing up spotting in Medway (1976 to mid-80s), it was pretty unusual for...

We had that in the south too! Maybe it's just assumed that it'll be on suitable dishes (perhapsnot the spaghetti and chips).