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The report into the Sutton Coldfield accident (available on Railways Archive) provides the answer. It quotes Rule 127; which starts with the statement 'When the conductor is familiar with the type of engine employed he must work the engine'. ------------------- As you say, in the 1960s at...

Perhaps a trivial point, but the list shows all the 175s as 'correctly' formed (i.e. with the last digit of stock numbers matching the one of the units). I thought that a couple had been re-formed.

Regarding the short codes for L.N.E.R. sheds; in a pre-war 'R.O.', the R.C.T.S. made it clear that the codes it used were certainly not official. At some point after the grouping the Company introduced the policy of painting the shed name (as well as the loco class code) on the front buffer...

My theory, for what it's worth, about the Sutton Coldfield accident is this; on the planned service pattern all trains stopped there. The conductor, if, as you would expect, was a passenger driver he would therefore never run through the station without stopping. If this was the first time he...

Maybe I'm too cynical but it could have been a way to lose your troubled past and start a new life. In a recent serious collision it is said that there were people who tried to misleadingly create the illusion that they were on then train involved to escape responsibilities of various descriptions.

Is that the one that's been against the stops at King's Heath with the pan up for quite a while? It's in white-with-Cambridge-blue-doors livery.

My bold, Rather than outsourcing, in the article I remember in The Times, some time ago, the strong inference was that councils were actually encouraging distant taxi owners to register with them as it was easy money - income with no cost - and one council detailed had lower standards of...

Thanks, interesting to hear the other side of the process. ------------------ On the subject of the Northampton station ticket displays; I hadn't realised that there are two, one on each side of the footbridge; each seems to cover all stations A to Z so it's quite complicated to follow missing...

Indeed. The passenger who pays for some of the lease costs, the taxpayer who provide the balance, and the passenger, again, who uses them; none of these are allowed to know the details because of 'commercial sensitivity' even when the outcome is demonstrably poor. Am I the only one to think...

My contact on the engineering side of another TOC said that, recently, flooring and other details had to be replaced on units at the end of the lease to get them up to standard, even though they were going for scrap. If it is indeed the case that the 360s were received in the state you suggest...

Thanks, informative. I had (wrongly, evidently) thought that all the 730s were to be maintained at Bletchley, presumably the 730/0s will be based at Soho?

Bit like the Derby remodelling of a few years ago when the Network Rail posters illustrated that the new signals would be three-aspect with red at the top. To be fair, they didn't have red/green man though :lol:

My bold. Indeed, that would be an alternative to a full route map and it's been the London Transport/Underground approach for many years.But the curious situation is that includes not only the routes that these particular 730s work but also some, but not all, other LNwR/WMR routes. My...

The same happens on Cross Country at 5th New St axis - if a succession of trains towards there are running late by around 30 minutes the first drops back to the next departure from New Street and so on. This changes the destination as well, and so inconveniences passengers already on the train...

In my opinion the map is unhelpful because it's one of where the 730s operate not where LNwR serves. Looking at the map, an unwary passenger might deduce that LNwR don't run trains to Northampton or cfrom London to Coventry & Birmingham. In my opinion I don't think a passenger will only be...

Indeed - 77312 (319012) had 'St Paul's from Cheapside' and 'Tower Bridge', for instance.

I had a lok at the Northampton station ticket board, and it's interesting. There is neither a vacant space nor a ticket for Wellingborough nor Kettering. One of the unlikely ones that is there is the outward half of a priv. return from Burnside. I had to look at a map... Stations where no ticket...

The cynic in me wonders whether these very narrow seats are a product of those promises made at franchise tendering to 'increase the number of seats by nnn in the rush hour''. I am lean and 'athletic' with a b.m.i. almost into the unhealthy underweight category but, even if I shared a 350/2...

Would that be the same Mr P. Rees that was D.C.E. Watford around 1970? There were one or two major P.W. problems on the West Coast around then.

Sounds like the usual narrator heard on British Transport Films although I can't particularly remember one about Shap.