North Wales loco's 31st October
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:01:16 -0700 (PDT)
Bit of a bumper day up here in North Wales, with 66018 on the RHTT,
57304 doing the honours with the Pendolino and 57314 spending the
weekend at Holyhead. But the highlight has to be the return to action
proper of 37425, paired with 37401 on the 6D19/6F18 RTZ Arpley-
Holyhead.
If you fancy a look at some of the ...
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Incident at Kircaldy Tonight
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:36:14 -0700 (PDT)
I travelled back tonight from Edinburgh to Dundee on the 18:32 ex
Edinburgh to Aberdeen East Coast service. We we held up for some time
outside Kircaldy station, and were told that an ambulance and police
were attending a train in the station. Further announcements revealed
that the train had been damaged and that ...
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Re: Class 70s are on their way!
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:26:18 +0000
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:14:49 GMT, wensleydale@pacersplace.org.uk (Neil
Williams) wrote:
>There are already 141s in preservation, I think
In Iran?
>and the 140 is as well.
And one of the Leyland Bus prototypes for the Leyland National-based
Pacers was sold to a US railway and preserved. It was in ...
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OT Tickets to Spain
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:07:07 -0000
I'm thinking of heading down to Southern Spain in February. It occurred to
me that I can go by train. Rather than just make a dash for it I thought
we might travel by day and make the journey part of the holiday something
like:
Day 1 Castle Cary/London (Eurostar)/Paris
Day 2 Paris (TGV) Montpellier
Day ...
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Original railway bridge at Selby
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:06:54 -0700 (PDT)
I wonder if anyone has information on the original 1839 bascule bridge
over the River Ouse at Selby.
Manually operated,it had a span of 45 feet.
What I'm looking for is any early photograph or illustration of the
cast iron double leaf structure.
I faintly recall seeing something in a railway history book ...
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Southampton Central to Fareham
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
On Sundays at particular times of the hour the quickest way to do this
is via Eastleigh (e.g. xx:55 -> (xx+1):43). However this isn't shown
on traintimes.org.uk. This would imply that for some illogical reason,
you're not allowed to go via Eastleigh. Is it possible to get a higher-
priced ticket to go via Eastleig ...
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Re: West London Line - what recession?
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:15:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Oct 31, 10:06?pm, contrex <mike.j.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 Oct, 08:54, Martin Edwards <big_mart...@Yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > You can get Vegimite in the UK now too.
>
> What's with the "now"? I've been buying it from Tesco for at least 10
> years. Vegemite with an 'e' in the middle I mean.
I was able ...
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Re: Arriva Trains Wales Wales - London services
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:10:13 +0000
In message <tLSdnXPck7-WOnfXnZ2dnUVZ8k-dnZ2d@bt.com>, Peter Masson
<peter.masson1@privacy.com> writes
>
>
>"Tony Miles" <trackmiles@googlemail.com> wrote
>>
>> I'd have thought that if ATW was to start (wastefully) stationing
>> staff at BNS on the assumption that sets may refuse to couple the
>> other TOCs w ...
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Smile. Trick or Treat
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:25:30 +0000
Smile. Trick or Treat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9owk50Iz3w&feature=player_embedded
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Virgin B'ham-Edinburgh tomorrow - long wait at Preston?
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:38:24 +0000
I'm booked to travel on the 11:20 Birmingham-Edinburgh VWC service
tomorrow (31/10), going as far as Lancaster. Been looking at the timings
wondering why the journey time is longer than usual.
There is a 45 minute wait at Preston:
(intermediate stop timings from NRES)
11:37 11:37 Wolverhampton
12:07 ...
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