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My dad bought me a Triang jinty for Christmas in 1963 with a five plank wagon, tank wagon and a brakevan. Plus an oval of track, controller and a Heybeard battery charger to run it. He worked shifts, so to keep the house quiet my mother would take me to the station, in my pushchair, to look at...

I live within 200 yards of the Penkridge branch of the WCML. Loads of freight and passenger. There seems to be more freight than when I moved here five years ago.

Interesting thread. I stopped chasing manufacturers silly prices a long time ago. The going rate for a SM32 or SM45 live steam locomotive is about £500 for a Mamodesque loco up to £5000 for something exotic. Latest acquision is above, bought from Ebay as a wreck for a little over £100, now...

Western, 10+ MkIIa, Summer 1976, Devon. Or probably a Pendolino.

I get twenty boxes a year for FREE travel and I wouldnt use the railways at the moment. Its a joke. Hopefully there will be something left of it when this farce ends.

Thanks for the advice. Sorry for the late reply, I do not get on here much.

Hello all, a while ago (1977), I acquired a logbook for one of the Western class locomotives. Not a fault book, the record kept at Swindon Works regarding component changes, modifications etc. Its a foolscap sized folder about an inch or so thick. Due to my advancing years, I would like to sell...

Thank you very much for the replies. Even though I am "safeguarded", as my trip is hopefully a one off, I think I will forgo the pleasures listed above and stump up the cash. Sorry too that I put the post in the wrong forum!

Hello, and some questions from me that I hope some kind person can answer. I want to use the Victoria line in a week or so. I will be travelling from Euston Underground station out towards Walthamstow. i) Does Euston underground station have a ticket office where I can speak to a human? Or ii)...

I learnt how to count watching filthy 9Fs wheeling Stewart & Loyds wagons through the local station.

Not a bus man but: reg no 559 PT belonging to a Leicestershire bus company circa 1975 Two stroke COMMER (?) engine. You could hear it and see the blue smoke a mile distant. Also Howletts (Quorn) had a Volvo coach with I think a Plaxton (?) body that I cleared for 100mph between Loughborough and...

Langley Mill. Sounds like something out of the end of a Victorian painters brush. Last I was there 25 years ago, it was a drug addled post-industrial hell hole. I'm not nosey enough to go and see if it has changed.

Latterly, I was working from home for 60% of the time anyway. Whilst office bods are rejoicing in the new found freedom of "working from home", I wonder if they have cottoned on to the fact that employers may be thinking that "home" is Tashkent or Jaipur, or in fact anywhere they like. It does...

Considering the constant political meddling, I think our railways are just fine. I dont even mind commuting with all the fun that can ensue with the Cross City service. I even willingly use trains for leisure. I must be bonkers. :D

What a provocative comment. No one wants to see women living in fear of rape and sexual assult. But, if theres going to be women only compartments, then we should have women only buses, streets, bars, towns etc. Perhaps to make it even more relavent we could have seperate facilities for every...

Yep and at Leicester Uni. too, fascinating machine. (well I am an Engineer, sorry)

Load of rubbish. Its public transport. For the public. You no likey, buy a chuffin car. Taking this to the Nth degree we would end up with one person in one vehicle....er....I know, lets call it an auto-mobile. That got us a long way in the last 100 years didn't it?

Masham. Two Breweries. Job Done.

Tip the rancid Meridians into the Trent and run their trains with them?

They do the job they were designed to do and AFAIK the public like them, well theyre always well loaded. I long distance commuted on them for nearly two years when they were new. Apart from a couple having to be rebooted in Euston and one sitting down at Stafford* and refusing to move, I was...