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My dad has just received this jugsaw of our next door neighbour, I was wondering if you could help name the locations? Please? 1666932987 I know one of the pictures is alongside the Kennet and Avon cannal. The coronation scot is alongside the grand union canal somewhere between London village...

Accurascale have just announced a brand new model of the brush type 2. It will be available as the Mirlees class 30 and the re engined English Electric class 31. The first production run is available now for pre order. DCC ready is £169.99 and sound ready is £269.99. Below is a link to...

I will start this with Primus Sailing The Seas Of Cheese. 1629523987 Followed by The Smashing Pumpkins, Melon Collie and The Infinite Sadness. 1629524165 Followed by the desert sessions volumes 3&4, and, 5&6

Observations when I have been out and about

Hi, I received this plate yesterday. The locomotive number is 47480. I was wondering if any of you could shed any light on it? It came into my possession after an operator's mum on my taxi firm passed away. When she saw this plate, she thought of me, as I like trains, it was in her mum's...

On the 6th of March 2000, 37219 hauled the 1323 1H42 from Warrington Bank Quay to Manchester Piccadilly and the 1719 1D45 return to Warrington. My question is what were the carriages used on this train? My notebooks from this era are long since gone. I have found the carriages used on the...

Last night (Tuesday the 15th of October), I was on my way to Cammel Laird's at Birkenhead, when I passed a steam engine on the back of a low loader. I passed it at junction 31 (Preston A59) it was heading south at approx 2215. It appeared to be maroon in colour and looked to be an 0-6-0. As I...

My question is this, which 319 is 799001, and what is its time scale to be in use? I know it is not the hydrogen flex unit as that is 319454 in a special advertising livery based on silver and purple, with no yellow front. This unit has a yellow front warning panel. Can anybody elaborate, please?

Does anyone know when the West Midlands class 150's will be transferring to Northern, now the Viva Rail class 230's have been delivered?

I will be speng next Wednesday morning in Edinburgh, and would like to get both morning class 68's working the Fife circle. What is the best way of achieving this? I am travelling from Preston to Kirkcaldy on the sleeper train, and catching the first train from Kircaldy back to Edinburgh. I...

Current liveries, why are the current franchise operators going with white? Is this because of the R.O.S.C.O.'s? This is an impossible colour to keep clean through my own experience of driving a white taxi. Virgin have gone white, with red with their flowing silk livery. Transport for Wales...

I heard this morning of a bus driver that Blackpool Transport are going electric circa 2021. Apparently the buses are coming from china, I don't know the make or model. The Rigby Rd tramsheds are apparently going to be knocked down to make charging points.

Hi. This is the first time I have done anything like this, so apologies if it is not to the high standards of some of the other threads. I am splitting this into two groups. Sightings I have seen out and about in my taxi, mainly at Blackpool North. And, days out either on the train or in the...