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Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/wmr-class-196-build-and-implementation.166065/ Aa a matter of interest, what is the situation with the 196s with regard to equipment for operating DCO / DOO ? I seem to recall reports at the start of their delivery, saying...

Seen mentions in various media of 37601 being renumbered to 37501 during a repaint at Loughborough works. Would this have the same modifications as 37508 which was 37606 before it's wpiac lights were removed ? I understand the reason why 37508 was retro liveried and de-wipac d, but is there a...

Bit of a strange request here. My wife's colleague who lives near Stafford would like to visit the Isle of Lewis. I have had a quick google and it strikes me that catching 1S25 from Crewe to Inverness might be a good starting point, then maybe a coach from Inveness to Ullapool for the ferry...

Walking along Priory Queensway at 0600 on Wednesday passed the Wesleyan building when a dark blue decker roared past and stopped at the stand used by the 16 and 16A. I did a double take and saw it was a Thandi bus which looked like an Olympian. Registration looked like THZ3390 but photos of the...

7Z47 1347 Wednesday EastRiggs - Fairwater 47832 and 57601 powering ADB965217 and ADB965240 For the record pool 8191 contains the following showing at, and all appear to have been constructed in 1965 ADB965203 Fort william ADB965206 Inverness ADB965208 Norwich ADB965209 Eastriggs ADB965210...

As I understand it all nineteen units were returned to Long Marston off lease. Since then I believe two units were moved to Kilmarnock (possibly Brodies) have been delivered blue and now seem to be running trials in the Glasgow area. Last week i believe one or maybe two 769/9s were hauled...

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...