Recent content by Malcmal

Tim Dunn recently tweeted a video of a Blackpool tram running at Crich: https://twitter.com/MrTimDunn/status/1315302461209411584

Many companies tell "white lies" in these circumstances to be diplomatic and in the hope to avoid directly offending people. But at the end of the day this is the world of business and commerce - people should realise how lucky it was that Dai Woodham (owner of Barry scrapyard for any of the...

I was definitely entering the right headcode around 6pm tonight and it didn't work. But when I tried later on it did. So not sure what happened but thanks to both you guys for helping out. I was just curious to see where it was coming from as I was lead to believe that it left Toton a week ago...

I never used Realtimetrains in anger before so I could be doing it wrong but that headcode doesn't return any results??

Maybe they are just rail enthusiasts with plenty of fire in their bellies??? It's not unheard of :D

37116 used to have the old school "skirt" at one end only right into the 1990's and I seem to remember this was due to some kind of cab repair / replacement.

I think this photo on Flickr might help with the mystery - even the 006 part is clearer which matches the cab photo :D Also the shape of the paint / undercoat is identical!! However I can see the air horns are missing off this end but I still think it makes a case 25006 [CH-4--011] by...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tramcars_of_the_National_Tramway_Museum Take a look at this list for The National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire. Blackpool seems to feature quite a lot.

Around 22 miles seems to be the longest one I can find if ultra pedant mode is engaged and pure walking is only allowed with no other form of transport!! Namely Dartmouth :D

I forget where the emergency brake is on a 737... :D

But that is a big part of the debate here in this thread. Does the passenger go and find a member of staff or operate the brake unilaterally?? 1601831254 In that case about 50% of this discussion needs to be relocated to another thread :D

The root cause of the disaster was of course mechanical failure but I just wanted to point out that reluctance by a passenger to act can be the difference between life and death. The wording I wrote is technically correct is it not? I do see that I changed the wording before you finished your...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschede_derailment#Chronology_of_events Just a reminder of one time that a passenger (and conductor) failed to operated the emergency brake resulting in the deaths of 101 people. Of course this is the extreme end of the scale.

I'm waiting for an angry ornithologist to complain that the loco is named Avocet but the bird depicted is a swallow :D And it really is almost 20 years since the pantograph was "touching live copper"!! Where do the years go?

According to the caption on this photo the loco returned to Barrow Hill around a week ago: https://flic.kr/p/2jKjeSa Also a nice closeup here: 89001 Toton 22/09/20. by 37260 - 10 million+ views, many thanks, on Flickr