Recent content by JKF

I was pretty sure the local authority owned the line. I remember reading somewhere that the council had bought the former railway for a nominal fee (£1?) from NR. When it came to funding for the LU extension they somewhat cheekily claimed that by donating the land for the line they were...

I’m pretty sure it has to run round or reverse twice to get in and out of the bulk terminal, there’s a fairly generous time for it to get from there to the waste plant. The waste plant entrance is also in the up direction, so once it’s entered the siding it then has to reverse into the plant...

I suspect a few people enjoyed seeing it in daylight for a change! I’ve been staying a few minutes from Alexandra Palace this weekend and planned to pop out early morning to watch it go through, but instead had a leisurely morning and strolled down to see it around 10:30. As a bonus I saw...

They have them on Temu (just about all the ads on social media are people selling temu/ali express things with a big mark-up), but still seemed quite expensive.

How many of the coaches from the prototype set are still about? Isn’t one in the NMT, and isn’t that rumoured to be replaced soon? I think a couple of years back the situation was that only one had been scrapped.

DB schedules tend to appear quite late on the system, usually over the weekend but might be even later due to the bank holiday. GBRF have schedules but apart from the STP bringing in empties on Monday morning they’re the same ones that have been there since late last year from when the service...

Pretty sure class 50s had a higher number than that in preservation at one time, although a few projects failed and were scrapped.

Portbury-Margam steel traffic has been a fairly reliable turn for the HTE locos this month. Of the 31 workings so far in April, 28 have been HTE 66s. Only 653, 657 and 658 have been absent, the latter two having never been on this traffic and seemingly working out of the midlands.

DBC have been bringing out two fully loaded trains daily for the past couple of weeks whereas GBRF were only running one train a day during the period when they were operating. Do GBRF have enough stock (40+ wagons) to run at this frequency? 1745137877 (Please excuse the automerge!) I’m...

When I lived around North London about seven years ago this seemed to happen quite routinely with freight. Certain services always seemed to go on the GOBLIN line despite booked to come past the conveniently situated playground adjacent to the line in Dalston where I’d be with my two-year-old...

That service was cancelled, and nothing had appeared in the timetable since. I wonder what the actual plan is? DBC are still very busy running the service on a ‘temporary’ basis, usually two trains daily with a full load.

Great, thanks.

Hi, After what has worked the Portbury steel services on Weds/Thurs this week (16th & 17th). These would be the 6Z55 & 6Z50 Margam-Portbury services. Thanks.

Thanks everyone. I had considered the inner might be flangeless but then thought the other wheel wouldn’t stay on the rail, hadn’t considered double flanged!

Below is a picture of the points for the passing loop on a funicular I travelled on last week in Genoa. Could anyone explain to me how this works? It doesn’t look like any parts move, and appears that it would derail any vehicle unless there was some kind of retracting wheel mechanism on the...