Six Class 50's lined up at Old Oak Common at the 2017 Open Day [ATTACH]
IIRC they broke the southbound record several years ago. There was a DVD of the attempt that came with Railway Magazine. I also read somewhere...
Missed the record by 21 seconds apparently.
DMU's came in a few categories. Class 101 is low density, with a handful of passenger doors to each carriage. Classes 115 and 117 are high...
The DMU at the West Somerset Railway is a Class 115.
How does a railfan make contact on social media? They DMU...
I was going to buy a railway station in the South of France but the locals were Avignon of it...
Do we really need thread after thread about sales? Can we just have a new thread when there is actually a sale?
Very much a one-off, but D1013 Western Ranger did reach Leeds on a service from Swansea in January 1977. It wouldn't have taken the NTP route however.
Pembroke to Swansea on a bus seat fitted 143 was nauseating, the full nodding donkey experience. They are a fitting monument to the government of...
She nearly bought coffee at Penzance station but she's holding out for a Nero...
Bonnie Tyler would know the answer...
Class 47 South Eastern High Speed [ATTACH]
Long thread here on the 707s move to Southeastern. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/class-707-to-southeastern-dates.208114/
Class 47 Great Western Express [ATTACH]
From "This is Paddington" by John Vaughan, published in 1982
Headlights were not mandatory on British rolling stock until the mid 1980s when older stock was retro-fitted with yellow square headlights. There...
Great Western Express would be ideal, particularly as charter train operator West Coast Railways have a base at Southall. There were regular...
Slough, about 100 yards from the GWML. My daily commute (when not locked down) takes me on both the Great Western Express and Bakerloo Line routes.
I'm reminded of a Jimmy Carr joke "I grew up in Slough in the 1970s. If you want to know what Slough was like in the 1970s, go there now."
Class 465s are all 4 car. The 2 car version is Class 466.
Any pacer would do, so long as the route ended at Sims Metals scrapyard in Newport...
My favourite German route, a definite yes from me.
Chequered Flag on the Spectrum
It was a guards compartment, but was apparently so noisy that the unions got involved and BR had to incorporate a guards compartment into the...
West Coast Railways have a base at Southall. I think there is just a single siding remaining at West Drayton, haven't seen it used in years.
That's what I'm expecting, but with alpha-numeric headcodes rather than marker lights. Class 101's did run out of Reading, but not until the late...
If they did the Chiltern Line between Marylebone and Aylesbury then the Met Line to Amersham, which uses the same lines from Harrow, could be...
Fairly certain that the viaduct in this video is the between Brighton and London Road on the East Coast way route. [MEDIA]
There's a Western and 117 DMU in there as well. Classes 31, 50 and 128 would be seen as well plus occasional visits from the prototype HST.
Some archive footage of Paddington Station (and its spotters) in 1975 [MEDIA]
It wasn't unknown for HSTs to run with standard class accommodation at the London end, usually as a result of engineering work or short term...
I just used Excel and took a screen grab.
Really? I had no idea. Great minds think alike!
Another week of livestreams are nearly here so, with my tongue firmly in my cheek, why not play along with TSW Live Stream Bingo? Simply print...
I have to say I feel that DTG do a fairly good job on communication. By following the roadmap and announcements I'm able to keep on top of what's...
So according to XBox store I own TSW2020, West Somerset, Rapid Transit and NEC New York. I've never bought TSW2020, only played it on Game Pass,...
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Good evening, Would anyone know how to change my profile name please? I seem to have been given one based on an email address. I've gone in to my...
Night Mail by Public Service Broadcasting [MEDIA]
Anything on the Western Region of British Rail from the 60s, 70s or 80s would be great. Personally I would like to see the Swansea to Carmarthen...
Gloucester to Birmingham, Swindon or Cardiff would be great.
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