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Great photos, thanks for posting.

Thanks Magdalia, by 1977 I had been drafted to Portland and was using the trains to Weymouth.

Trying to remember the make up of the 23:45 Paddington to Penzance via Bristol that we matlots used to catch back to Plymouth and in my case Redruth during the 70's. I remember it had several sleeping cars on the front, lots of compartment stock for us jolly tars, several vans at the rear for...

Not sure, it must have been late eighties as I finished traveling to London by then.

I do, used it a few times when visiting London, had some very nice hotel stays through them. Then one year went to book a stay and found the office was no longer there.

One day in the early 70 s at Penzance, I remember seeing a 42/43 bring a train into the arrival platform and, once all the passengers had disembarked, the warship pushed the coaches back out of the platform and into a siding which was next to sea and near the signal box. After a while I heard...

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The railway from Aberdeen to Inverness was built on part of a canal as far as Inverure. There are still parts of the old canal still to be seen in Inverurie.

During my training for the Navy at HMS Ganges at Shotley Gate near Ipswich in 1967-1968, the Navy would charter special leave trains from Ipswich to London Liverpool Street for all us southerners and also trains going north for all the northerners, and then return trains at the end of the leave...

How about the Chatham dockyard railway? Its only freight demonstrations, no passenger carrying and just a mile long with a couple of 0-4-0 saddle tanks.

My first memory of railways was standing on the footbridge that crossed over the small engine shed and goods yard at Faversham, with my dad watching the trains going to Ramsgate and Dover and back, when my dad spotted a friend of his walking to the shed. He gave him a shout and we were invited...

That's it, thanks Kev.

I watched a YouTube video yesterday uploaded by nodrog of a site visit he made recently. Sorry I don't know how to post a link Shap Summit.

Ah, I remember the 0300 Holborn to Ramsgate papers, I used to help to unload the papers at Whitstable in the 1960s. The down platform is on a right hand curve and the driver couldn't,t see where to stop as the Whitstable van was near the rear, so we would position somebody further along the...

I can remember triple headed class 37s passing through Bristol Temple Meads in the 70s I think hauling stone from South Wales for the building of the M5 motorway.

Many years ago, after a naval exercise of the north of Scotland, our ship docked in Rosyth dockyard. A lot of us had to get back to our air statIon in Cornwall. We were told to be at the dockyard station at a certain time to catch a train. At the appointed time a loco propelled two mk 2...

And here is a mention for the Royal Deeside railway on part of the Aberdeen to Ballater line. They have the original battery electric multiple unit that was used on the branch, as well as several shunters and a small steam loco.

..... And I remember the occasional flasher, both male and female, when traveling along the sea front when travelling between Dawlish and Exeter, mostly in the summer months.

Hope you are ok Paul, I used that road from Helston to PZ often a long time ago, has it changed much? I don't suppose Seahawk 3 is still availible now it is all dmus and hst down there now.

There was a set stabled in the sidings at Dundee this morning, with power car 43033 in the new Scotrail livery at the Aberdeen end and 43135 in plain blue at the other. I presume that this is the set being used for driver training etc. I took some pictures on my phone, but it was such a cold...