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Those wouldn’t count as ‘BR’ as per thread title! Unless it means operated by rather than built by/for? 1713902543 Only one known at least! Another was exported to Italy, but details of where it went after anrrival are sketchy. A long lost 03 did reappear over there a few years ago so there’s a...

Are there any internal works narrow gauge locos surviving? I guess they would be a rarity.

And they’re out! Photo shows 20901 & 20905 in Balfour Beatty blue and white livery at Dr Days Junction.

I wonder if they read this thread for suggestions! We can hope - my vote is for ‘Police’ livery :E

It’s gone very quiet on the Portbury branch, last plonkliner I think ran on 2nd December last year. A couple of months ago they added some weekday paths onto the system but none have run. This service started with a Saturday inbound and at some point a FO was added though only ran a couple of...

Just tipping them into a bin is itself noisy enough. Our flat backs onto a pizza restaurant and they tip out the glass regular as clockwork around 11pm every night. Tbh I don’t even notice it anymore, I’ve tuned it out. Otherwise you can here a pin drop here. Irregular noise tends to be more of...

It’s not just about numbers on each side, but motivation to vote. The fundamentalist Christian vote is very active, so in some cases it will serve the republicans to play this up for them. Opposition to it is also strong however as has been shown in recent results, although may be less of a...

I’ve seen a picture of 901 nearing completion today (not mine to share unfortunately!). Looking very smart. Not the first time there has been one in these colours though. Hopefully they will head back up north at a reasonable time of day so I can see the end result in person.

Presumably they were selling tickets on to other people? Sounds like the sort of operation that would involve more than one person. I wonder if they figured out they could get away with this themselves, or if it’s a common scam that people know about and others are doing the same...

Doesn’t Hoskings have something to transport cars on his private train, or am I thinking of someone else? Fairly sure I heard about this.

It’d make an interesting photo charter on somewhere like the GCR, with matching vintage vehicles, Vauxhall vivas, Mk1 Escorts, that sort of thing! 1712343589 The obvious solution is to bring back the ETHELS. Maybe Harry Needle has that in mind for the two 25s he purchased not so long ago…

I imagine they’d express displeasure if someone starting building houses on the site too…

Not sure what gauge these would class as, but I like to build my locomotives a little bit bigger… :E

Trump supporters, and far-right movements in general feed off a sense of imagined victimhood, so this would just reinforce that notion. I can’t see it helping. With most trump supporters there‘s not any actual way to reach them to try and change their minds, they exist in a self-curated silo, a...

There was a nice small pub in Brighton where I played a gig once, and a developer had built crappy flats literally in a ‘U’ shape around the building. Hence lots of noise complaints from residents. Bands don’t play there anymore as a result of this (not sure if it’s even still open). You’d have...

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Hi, Can anyone help with this morning’s ’lowlander’ sleeper? 1E35 2146 Glasgow Central to London Kings Cross RTT says 92020, but I saw that on the front of the highlander just after 7 this morning, so clearly not right! Supposedly 92018 was working the later service. The ECS workings...

Do we have any data on frequency of landslips in previous decades, is it a recognisable increase, or just something that is being reported or noted more? I know quite a few beeching-era closures were brought forward because of earthworks failure, and I’m aware certain lines like the...

Hi, From this morning, missed at Willesden Jn due to being the wrong side of the bridge on both occasions: 6M48 0913 Bow East (Db Cargo) to Acton T.C (DB red 66 or 59) 3E39 0838 London Kings Cross to Wembley Inter City Depot (Probably 92006 and 92014 based on other workings done by them this...

Bristol to bath is very well surfaced, wide tarmac at the Bristol end. I think east of Bitton some of it is that clay gravel stuff, but still decent. Miles better than the swampy path along the Avon Gorgw which must see very limited commuting traffic.