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Please pardon what is probably a very simple question, because I am in the rail industry with probablymany differences. There seems to be quite a movement of vehicles between garages / depots, sometimes timetable changes, sometimes reliveries, sometimes new vehicles or transfers. In the recent...

I wonder if someone could help with a query please. My wife (62) and her friend (70) are not very savvy public travellers and have gone to London for the weekend, for the C2C weekend at the O2 arena and are staying near Royal Victoria dock. My suggestion for them was to travel to Euston, then...

37610 and 37800 with barrier vans moved a class 175 as 5Q60 0954 Holyhead-Central Rivers on Monday. The move ran via Chester, Ccewe, Penkridge and Walsall. Cenral Rivers depot is an Alstom location and the 170 is an Alstom product

Bloody hell. The pretendolino. What happened to that ?

Hi all. Hope someone can satisfy my curiosity yesterday please. Driving M6 south yesterday passing J7 at about 1430 when i noticed a decker heading north. It looked for all the world like a 1970s era MCW or Park Royal bodied fleetline but with a centre staircase which nay have been dual doors...

This book by Mike Hollick and being published by the LNWR Society on 17th July, documents the traction changes from the 1950s to the late 1960s to the railways in the West Midlands. The scope is pretty much the LNWR boundaries stretching from Rugby in the Eastto just shy of Stafford, and...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/east-west-rail-ewr-oxford-bletchley-construction-progress.216561/ I agree. As the population of the UK is ever expanding, more people will be living in the Shire counties in future. It is funny really, when went to school well...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mml-electrification-updates.110445/ If there was any sense then Nuneaton-Wigston would become an add on, but consider this A class 92 hauled freight could run on 750V from Southampton to Basingstoke, then from Southcote Jn to...

mods note - split from this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/class-701-aventra-trains-for-south-western-railway.148717/ On the face of it they may have bit off more than they could chew, given their factory and staffing capacity, but maybe had they opened another facility somewhere...

Hi all. I have fullfilled a desire for quite a number of years - to acquire a model of a Bristol SC4 - the likes of which I occasionally went to school on in around 1973 and 1974. Crosville used these on the Aberllefenni - Tywyn school bus during peak summer where the rest of the year we had a...

The three of my order arrived today courtesy of Royal Mail. These are a massive ss tep up from those die cast models with their sometimes dodgy printed on details. they are prefitted with lighting and are packaged with a mini lighting loom under the middle of the bus mounted on it's plinth in a...

Apologies if I am duplicating a thread, because I haven't found one relevant yet. AIUI when the new franchise announced it's rolling stock plan, the semi-derelict former wagons works at Duddeston was announced as receiving a rebuild for maintaining the 3 car class 730/0s for the Cross City line...

We often consider electric traction to be cheaper to run than burning diesel, as well as improved performance, timekeeping and environmental benefits. What we don't hear is the relative difference between the costs of buying Network Rail 25kV or 750V DC compared to operating diesel traction. I...

Hi all. I was driving down the M6 southbound today when I glanced across near J9 for Wednesbury and saw an EMU car on a low loader heading north. It looked to me like a class 321 car covered in vinyl, but I can't be sure. I have googled hydrogen demonstrators and found a class 319 at Long...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/caledonian-sleeper.176365/ What is the disposition of the withdrawn sleeping cars ? I think LSL acquired a rake.

Assuming all the station platform work is completed, the platform doors shield the construction workers from the trains and the railway is handed over for training etc, would there be any benefit to run the services non stop from Liverpool St to Paddington, assuming that some of those trains...