Recent content by AlistairCowell

About time for a new livery and refurbishment, have to say its livery shape does look like a bit of Avanti West Coast. The livery that XC has right now have lasted over 16 years, and when the voyagers received the then new XC livery back then, they didn't bother repaint the base colour while...

As this video suggested, Cars 102, 108 and 131 are no longer on the Glasgow Subway. Not sure if the cars get scrapped locally (like 122 did in 2015) or to be taken further afield such as Sims at Newport. One car is destined for the Riverside Museum though, according to Radio Clyde.

Ah, that rings a bell! It was Woodhead V1 that only ran as far as the Woodhead Tunnel, then a full Woodhead Route V2.2. Terrain was harder to create with MSTS (I don’t think rivet counters was even possible back then), so some sections were indeed flat where there were supposed to be hills and...

We've got no money, we're all doomed: BBC NEWS: Every person in the UK poor as the nation runs out of money https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-01042024

Not very good news for the Royal Family. King Charles was diagnosed with cancer and now the Princess of Wales has it too. I believe this might be a first time any Royal Family had cancer, unless one of the members had it years ago which I can’t remember.

You do need to log in for everything (like it or not) on Facebook now. Similar situation on X as well.

Class 419 was used as a loco, it carried GUV stock and also a water tank wagon. Could only carry like up to three wagons though. A BR Jaffa-Cake livery on a Class 69 would be nice, but would have been a first.

When nothing else exciting is happening, all we hear is Rishi and the Tory party and nothing else? After all it’s just a normal boring Tuesday in March.

I dreamed last night about me being inside a very small railway exhibition with a small cafe, with a sandish-ground space outside bordered by a wooden fence (possibly a car park). There was a model of a Class 320 in early SPT livery inside the exhibition, similar to what 320307 had. A small...

Class 325 postal units as well, think they were the last to be built by BR.

Dunno. Either May, if not this Autumn coming. By the way, something that nobody has yet mentioned, Chancellor’s Budget takes place tomorrow :{

Passed them once or twice a week, I believe they’re all painted grey for now.

Sunak calling a General Election, I’d bet £1000 on it.

Now SWR is making a big mistake the way the Class 458 is going. And a very big one when they did away with the 442 after such investment. They’re just playing then caring about their passengers - OLR them!

Well, the Romanian batch was a lot slower than expected, the quality was not up to standard as well as it’s resultant rebuild, and they eventually entered service around the same time as the BREL ones.