Recent content by grumpyoldman01

If the IC250 train had been built, it would have comprised 26m long carriages

I drove up the A619 from Chesterfield to Wadshelf on Thursday, and it seemed most strange not to see at least one Hulley's bus

It is - but it's no longer over an operational railway :D I THINK that part of the roof of the original York station might be standing too, but not 100% sure

The architect George Townsend Andrews used Euston Trusses on quite a few of the stations he designed, but most have been removed; still remaining are at Beverley and Filey. Euston Trusses were used by him at Scarborough, but I don't know if these are over the operational or the closed part of...

Sorry, my error - I didn't see Holymoorside on the timetable when I first saw it Any news about the 6?

High Peak are taking over and have published their timetables; Monday - Friday direct from Wadshelf to Brampton along the A619, Saturdays include a deviation to serve Holymoorside, but nothing published for Sunday

According ti John Glover's book 'English Electric Traction Album'. making the Hastings sets as bi-modes was considered at the design stage. but was discounted as it could not be justified financially because of the additional equipment needed and the complication this would create

Out of interest, is this due to only parts of platforms being surfaced to current standards and other parts fenced off, or have the original platforms actually been shortened? I regularly traveled between Chester Northgate and Manchester Central in the late 1960s on pairs of class 108 2-car...

This is basically how things were until the Thatcher government decided that the BR DM&EE had to transfer it's design capability to BREL, and then BREL was privatised; in the Sale of BREL Agreement, BR contracted not to design and build any more trains, and therefore a return to the situation...

Wasn't there also an electrified connection beneath the WCML which connected the Crewe - Kidsgrove line towards Basford Hall sidings?

Isn't a section also being erected at Etches Park depot for testing 810s? The population of Nottingham city itself is about 324k; however, it's one of those places where you can't tell where one town or city ends and another begins, and it's only because of this that the population of what is...

There's a difference between "approved" and "ordered"; none were actually ordered - the project was terminated before it got that far If the source of your information in the National Archive are BRB Investment Committee papers, please don't interpret everything found in them literally; I think...

NO electric HSTs were ordered - the only "hardware" produced was a model! The Mk3 BFOs were intended to operate with class 89s, or something similar; they predated WCML DVTs

Interestingly, there were about eight men wearing black polo-tops with Northern logos eating breakfast in the Premier Inn opposite Norwich station one morning in late September Could they have been visiting Crown Point to learn about Greater Anglia's FLIRTS?

An article has appeared on the Rail Technology Magazine website which includes a low resolution map of Northern Powerhouse Rail; the heading of the article is 'Network North details start to take shape after HS2 cancellation', and the map COULD be of those which will be electrified if the...