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I beg to differ During the week when there were diversions via the Dore South Curve I caught the Liverpool train booked to depart at 09.44. (it originated at Norwich). The platform display showed it running on time; absolutely no mention of a 'next train terminates here' or 'next train not in...

Thanks for the reply, (and also the earlier one) but I'm a bit confused about this; before the Bournemouth electrification I would have thought those trains could have been steam-hauled, and after, the 71s could only work as far as Bournemouth. Didn't think the 71s ever worked on the SWD either...

I remember the boiler vans on the West cCoast AC but I don't recall any Southern Region boiler vans, which suggests that the 71s delivered to ETH coaching stock from new. However, I also remember some boiler vans which were converted from BR Standard HBs - were these ever used behind the loco on...

The Northampton Sunday service about once every six weeks is totally reliable and never affected by strikes; neither are the timetabled every weekend late Saturday and the first Up Sunday journeys. That's because they're RRBs.

Yes, I agree that's a possible alternative meaning which I myself originally thought - but using a die ('diecast') is not the most common form of casting, and technically a die isn't cast - the die is used to mould the casting. 'Cast in the same/diabolical/a different mould' are sayings which...

But there is the saying 'the die is cast' meaning that an important and irreversible decision has been made. Perhaps people use it without understanding the meaning - see also 'one bad apple'...

Invacars were made in Watford and were distributed by rail, loaded on Lowfits. In the days before TOPS it was part of my job in FRS distribution to order a Lowfit when an Invacar was to be despatched. There would be advice that a Lowfit was being released at some distant terminal and had been...

Interesting, thanks. On the other hand, The New Fowler's Modern English Usage third edition 1996 under 'media' states 'Above all, never write a media or the medias'. However, Fowler's does say 'it is often treated as a mass noun with a singular verb or pronoun'; perhaps this is what Oxford has...

So does not the foregoing discussion suggest that running 90 mph stock on the WCML fast line is a bad idea?

And the title of this thread reminds me that some people don't realise that 'media' is the plural form. - for example writing 'the print media'. But, by contrast, the plural of 'stadium' is often written as 'stadiums'. Either consistently use the English form of plural (-s), or the appropriate...

But doesn't that mean that a 90 mph train would take at least two paths? - and, if it's an arithmetic series, 3?

If 90 mph units can (almost) keep time then the cost of upgrading the 350s from 100 mph to 110 mph seems to have been wasted...

Before the A5 bypassed Tamworth it passed between the two parts of the Reliant factory. I distinctly remember seeing body shells being moved across the road in gaps in the traffic - presumably the glass-fibre shop was the opposite side of the road to the mechanical one. They were quite light...

The front was, as you point out, hinged, and it was the only means to get out. Consequently, if you drove too close to a frontal obstruction you could neither exit the car nor reverse away from the obstruction. Whether this actually happening was an urban myth or not, I don't know, but those...

As far as 54398 goes it had been rebuilt with a Caley. boiler but someone realised that there was as LSWR (I think) loco still in service with a boiler design similar to the original HR design, and one was put aside. There was also the story that the shed foreman at the shed it was stored at...

There's several re-worked cartoon series in the U.S. Family Guy, and you can find them on You Tube . The best, i.m.o., is when Wile E Coyote finally kills Road Runner. It's a philosophical and deep appraisal of what can happen when you finally achieve the one ambition to which you've devoted...

Personally opinion, but I sort of got used too the appearance of the D600s but to me, the D6100 and D6300 locos always looked as if they were intended to have noses as well but just left them off. The flat area below the windscreens just looked un-finished. The D800s avoided this with a very...

Thanks. Just seems a bit inconsistent that so much attention is given to avoid panto. damage on a diverging route but not on a continuing, but unwired, one. RailwayCodes > Bridges gives Kilby Bridge as 74.14 and there are then 3 overbridges before MP 75, so if there's an overrun with the pan up...

On the subject of over-run wiring; I understand the concept of over-run wiring for a short distance on a diverging and not electrified route - but what happens when the wiring just stops on straight line? I am thinking of the Down Loop from Kilby Bridge Jct Northwards, where, viewed from a...

People who write it's for the possessive should logically also write hi's but I've never seen that - yet!