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Finally arrived back at Stapleton Road (from Oxford). Just about to exit the station when I heard an unusual and interesting sound approaching from the Temple Meads direction. Decided to wait & see what it was. Got more and more interesting sounding, until a DC RailFreight class 60 appeared on...

I know that people who comment on period inaccuracies are generally regarded as bores, but I was intrigued to see that the latest episode of 'Masters of the Air' (Apple TV) includes a sequence where an East Anglia-based USAAF officer goes on a leave trip to Oxford in 1943. We see his train of...

Has anyone heard of an incident years ago when there was a fatality/suicide on the South Western main line, and the Met Police breezed into the electrical control room at Wimbledon and told the duty controller to isolate all 4 tracks, and when he refused, arrested him? Making matters worse, as...

Some years ago I came across a video on Youtube called 'Sarah Siddons Cab ride Sept 2011', by someone called 'Chenhusky1' and I noticed the rather spiffy gloves the driver was using. I couldn't decide whether he was using these because the controller was hard on the hands, or out of a desire not...

If I buy an Interrail pass (e.g. 4 days in 1 month for France), and travel by Eurostar to/from Paris Nord, are these the whole of the allowed 'home country outward/inward' journeys? So that I would have to buy a separate ticket between Bristol Temple Meads to London CIV? Or is Bristol TM to...

Today I was changing trains at a certain station. The platform has a shelter with a long bench in it. A group of three or four rail workers came and sat down. They started chatting about colleagues, including one who was now 'doing revvy'. A good bloke, apparently. One of them asked asked...

Partner and I attempted to go from Stapleton Rd to Cardiff Central today. 2 x Off Peak Day Return with old-fogey railcards. £20.50 total. Took the 11.10 Stapleton Rd - Filton Abbey Wood, to await the 11.37 to Cardiff. This was severely delayed, arrived 12.20. Someone announced on the PA that a...

In 1968 I read a reader's letter to the Railway Magazine on the occasion of 4472's departure to the United States, ill-fated, as it turned out. The letter contained a poem called (or starting) 'To 4472, Adieu'. I lost the magazine but often thought about the poem. I seemed to have got the idea...

I liked this 'tale' recounted by a character in 'Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers', number 9 in the series. It seems a business man was booked on the London to Glasgow, for a meeting. Just before leaving for Euston, his boss phoned him at home and told him there had been a change of plan. He...

A Network Rail employee, Lewis Smith, suffered from 'shy bladder syndrome'. This left him too nervous to urinate when he was called in for a random check. He told NR that he was not trying to dodge it and even offered to carry out a blood test - but still he was fired for refusing to take part...

On July 4 1958, a 4-EPB unit passed a signal at danger and ran head-on into a steam locomotive at Maze Hill. The loco, Wainright 'C' class (BR no. 31461), had run round a rake of empty coaching stock which it was going to take to Herne Hill sorting sidings departing (I think?) in the Down...

Is there no limit to human wickedness? In the Guardian today: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/08/london-transport-staff-warned-of-razors-inside-covid-conspiracy-posters

It's been bugging me on-and-off for 60 years. Is it Clafton or Clawton or something else? I mean the LNWR locos built from 1913 onwards, the first of which was named after Sir Gilbert Claughton, chairman of the railway at that time.

I don't know if it's OK to ask about other forums, but does anyone know what happened to the District Dave forum? I last visited it about a month ago, but now MalwareBytes Browser Guard blocks it, saying it has 'trojans', and if I try on a Linux machine it says the site refused to connect. The...

I grew up with EPBs and SUBs. The first EPB ran the year before I was born; they were withdrawn when I was 43. I was very fond of them, but some of the shine got knocked off in 1991 when I saw what happened at Cannon Street. The old Fotopic "Control we have a problem" collection of accident...

In this article https://sremg.org.uk/RlyMag/GuildfordViaCobham.pdf there is a picture captioned "Train from London Bridge via Bookham joining the Cobham Line at Effingham Junction in April, 1955". The train has a 1925 type SUB leading, with the headcode L with two dots above (London Bridge -...

Story in The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/brexit-latest-eurostar-cut-train-services-timetable-eu-referendum-paris-brussels-a7362441.html Even though I am a Remain supporter, and should in theory be ruefully happy to read stories showing we are now going to...

As a small kid in the 1950s I used to hear older and newer EMU stock pass the end of our back garden, and on rail trips. I noticed that most older stock's motors sounded different from the 'newer' stock - I mean that (say) 1920s type SUBs, and the later BILs, LAVs etc had a kind of rich...

Network Rail/Arup... Dr Days to Filton... 2jUYViwle1c