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Bit surprised that no-one else has mentioned this yet, so let me be the first to acknowledge that today is International Women's Day and raise a cheer for all the wonderful ladies who do stalwart work for us all on the railways. It is perhaps appropriate to give a tip of the hat to Karen...

Those of us who use this system know about the DSD alarm and what triggers it, but I am unsure whether or not the DSD alarm also sounds if the vigilance is not acknowledged. I normally drive with the DSD held down solely by weight (my leg, not my bag before some wag suggest otherwise) and...

In the past week or so there have been two suggestions that new classes of traction have excess power which makes it difficult to drive them smoothly. Over on GA, it seems that the Stadlers always want to accelerate even in low power settings and require the use of speed set to keep them...

I wonder if any of you learned folk might be able to point me in the direction of a good source of information and images of the undercroft in it's heyday prior to rebuilding. Various permutations of search terms are not really yielding what I'm hoping to find. The best I've found so far is...

Or is it just 802005 that has big areas of exposed metal around the passenger doors?

https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/news-desk/news-articles/opportunity-rail-enthusiasts-say-goodbye-old-trains I hope this isn't considered duplication, but I think it's worth a parallel mention in this section. Bring water, etc. It's going to be unpleasantly hot onboard.

There are a couple of locations along the Chiltern route where the “6 foot” becomes the “several hundred yards”, and I’ve always wondered why this was. The first is between Saunderton and Princes Risborough and contains fields and more than one residential property while the second slightly...

Just a little light-hearted thread, I think. Something to maybe make people smile. Start off your railway-related musing with the phrase "I wonder if..." and add them below. I wonder if the people in that little corner of GWR-ness that is Leamington Spa know that their three-letter station code...

I was wondering whether any of the wise heads on this forum could explain to me why it is that, in the era of TPWS, there are still stations that appear to use double-blocking. Two that come most readily to mind are Cambridge (where you cannot access P4 on the Down if there is a movement...

There is a tunnel mouth on my route card that has a blue/white chequer "No Refuges" board on both sides. Surely if there are no refuges on either side this becomes a limited clearance and should be signed as such with red/white chequer "Limited Clearance" boards. Thoughts...?

A though occurred to me the other day that we are probably about to lose the AWS Bell and Horn from our mainline fleets. As far as I am aware, the various PEP classes (Cl313-5, Cl507-8) have them along with the LMR Cl317/1s, but all of these units are now facing large scale withdrawal and...

...but isn't. There's a section of route I cover regularly that appears to have started exhibiting a strange phenomenon. Driving along that route you would swear that the train has a wheel flat with the telltale banging and even an accompanying vibration through the floor. It happens every...

Given the number of heritage specials running around the network at the moment, I feel compelled to make a couple of observations and comments based on the experience of the last few days I have been at work. 1) If I have to sound the warning horn at you then it is purely as a warning, hence...

I was just idly wondering... Given that each pair of HST powercars had either 7 or 8 trailers between them, where have all the trailers gone? By my estimation there have been three powercars scrapped as a consequence of major collisions together with a number taken out of passenger use by...

Saw an LUL employee in full uniform getting onto a Chiltern service at Solihull. Anyone aware of LUL employees travelling further than this for work? O L Leigh

I'm sure I didn't imagine it, but I can't seem to find any details of it online. Can anyone help? If my memory serves me right, the idea was first mooted in the mid-90's under Intercity. The plan was to hack the cross-country HSTs in half with just one power car and between 4 and 5 trailers...

This guy's talents are amazing. Click. O L Leigh

Approved by Quizmasters 26 May 2012 I'm not sure if this will work, but I was wondering if it was possible to play Connect 4 with the rail network. The rules are very simple. Can you find something that connects four consecutive stations on the same line (it is Connect 4, after all)? It...

Got a text from a friend claiming that there was a suicide affecting services in or around Euston during the evening peak and wondering if I knew about it. Frankly I have no idea. Any offers...? Tube, perhaps...? O L Leigh

I'm afraid that the time has come to let the forum have both barrels. I, and others, have been patient, bided our time and done all we can to be magnanimous, but I'm afraid that my patience has just run out. It seems that most days I visit the forum I'm having to explain and defend the actions...