Recent content by Peter Mugridge

Thank you; that's very interesting to know. Must have been a bit of an "Oh Gawd!!" moment when you felt the sudden roughness behind and underneath you?

Do we know what the status on TOPS is of 455 721? That may give a clue as to whether it's a repair job or anything else...

You have a question mark against the acceptance of the c2c class 720s; I can confirm all 12 are in use - I've had them all for haulage.

377 301 is next on the 14.24 Seaford to Brighton. 377 309 is next on the 14.09 Brighton to Hove. 377 323 is next on the London Bridge to East Croydon ( with 377 317 ). Currently inbound to London Bridge from Beckenham Junction.

377 469 is currently on the 13.06 East Grinstead to Victoria ( with 377 126 and 377 132 ) 377 215 is currently on the 13.50 Victoria to East Grinstead ( with 377 117 and 377 150 )

Ooh.... *tries to think of other newsreaders of the same vintage* Kenneth Kendall?

Reginald Bosanquet?

Put the subtitles on - half the time they say what the title of any music is...

It looks to be as if the approximately monthly pattern is designed to ensure each member of staff only has one strike day and one week of an overtime ban in each four weekly pay cycle?

90 050? The shell still exists - it's not scrapped...

Custard was a cat in the Roobarb cartoons - I would hazard a guess that Hulllabaloo might be one of the bird characters in it? Strictly a guess as I've only ever known the names Roobarb and Custard...

Thank you; in that case - do we know what exactly the emergency work that led to a cancellation was? ( It was the 07.24 to Dorking; RTT however suggests it was simply terminated at Epsom 25 minutes late - in which case was the wrong code used on the information screens? Or was it 25 late in...

Having now had a chance to look back, yes - I put the wrong word in for Pontefract; it is indeed further away rather than nearer - apologies for that.

At least one train cancellation at Epsom was shown as being due to emergency repairs on the railway, which suggests a broken rail somewhere?

I said geographically closer - not near... and without checking back ( not at this time of night anyway!! ), I was probably referencing a specific one of the guesses in each case. Pembrey is certainly nearer to St Austell in a geographic sense than Thetford or Wellington. If the mods agree...