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    Heritage railway financial problems.

    I heard somewhere that the gift shop has been closed.
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    Transacord Railway Recordings

    I have a Transacord CD called 'Diesels Through The Decades', it appears to have been a tie up with Rail Express magazine. If memory serves Peter Handford made most of the recordings while waiting for steam to turn up! There is some really good stuff on it - 10000 and 10001 up Shap, Claytons on...
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    Most Unreliable Locomotive

    I read another article some time ago about the 50s the author saying that they had suffered from Derby 'Toytown' mentality - that is instead of them being similar to DP2 they put lots of extra gizmos in them which affected reliability. I'm not out to bash 50s I was just struck by the miles per...
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    Most Unreliable Locomotive

    Traction Magazine (I think) years ago had a list of locos and their miles per casualty, it would take me a long time to dig it out but as I recall of all the classes that lasted more than a few years the class 50s were pretty bad, even after being refurbed. The top class was the 20s.
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    Have you ever been mistaken for rail staff, or helped those less familiar with the network?

    This happened to me and my son at Euston a few years ago. We were waiting for our train back and generally minding our own business, we were dressed casual and wearing rucksacks so not exactly stand out. First we were approached by a lady who wanted to know how to get to Dartford - my son...
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    Saltley PSB

    Thank you and I'm a girl by the way :)
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    Saltley PSB

    Hi I am trying to find out when the various parts of Saltley panel migrated to the WMSC. I know the last bit was Cross City South which went in Nov 2016 and I think the Snow Hill area was before 2010 but have no idea about the rest. I have seen photos of the panel(s) taken in 2008 but I don't...

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