Rather worryingly, if I search for the trust's website on Google it says 'this site may be hacked' under it's name and url. False alarm? Chris
Any idea if the Hammersmith runs are to be late evening again like those for the 150th, or will we see some earlier in the day? Chris
There do appear to be conflicting reports, the best I can find is this thread on preserved diesels by someone working at Hornsey but even they...
Apologies for being unclear but I wasn't suggesting all had been scrapped, just the spares which appeared to be in very poor condition; those left...
If your thinking of the spare standard stock vehicles at Acton I believe they were moved down to Eastleigh and scrapped for spares quite recently....
I think that just underlines how pie-in-the-sky this proposed line is. Chris
Leek railway moves a step closer A heritage railway company is looking to buy a Staffordshire Moorlands rail line to help safeguard it's future....
They are probably best staying out of it, at least until there's some reason to think it might actually happen. Chrus
A conventional steam-hauled charter along the sea wall, carrying the great and good along with the media, would surely be both easier to organise...
I believe they are doing similar modifications to those carried out by VSOE with their own ex-BEL vehicles - sections of mk1 underframe are used...
Can anyone say what they'll be fitted with? It would be interesting to know if there's some kind of derogation involved as with the NYMR to...
I'm afraid they were seen off years ago, the only 73s used by SWT these days are for shunting vehicles in the depot at Bournemouth. Chris
Realistically any conversion programme is going to take a lot longer than 20 years, and it's quite conceivable some lines may never justify...
A trial conversion of Southampton-Basingstoke has been proposed as part of the 'Electric Spine' project, to allow freight and passenger services...
Apologies for going slightly off-topic Gary, but would the IWSR be interested in another Island loco? Posted over on wnxx, the cut down 03179 is...
I'm happy to be corrected, but I believe the requirement for barrier vehicles has now been removed. Chris
Amazing if true, but I gather from a discussion about 508s that the tight curvature of the tunnel is quite restrictive when it comes to carriage...
Apologies for continuing to stray off topic, but has the track through the tunnel been raised any further since the 80's? A few years ago a former...
How often does steam traverse the Dudding Hill Line? Must be pretty rare surely. Chris
The 'electric spine' scheme is expected to see electrification stretch beyond Oxford to Bedford (via Bicester) and Nuneaton (via Banbury and...
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