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A 40% increase in five years is significant.

Not all the 14s went into industrial service and not all were nationalised industries. It was also not a majority to the NCB. Disposal was as follows: Scrapped: 8 Coal industry: 19 Steel industry: 23 Cement industry: 3 Oil industry: 3 Anyone wanting to know more about them, I would recommend...

Do people not suffer from mental health issues because they’re rich, then? Because that is what you are saying.

They owe their survival to their time in industry. For a preserved line, they are pretty much ideal: can be used for shunting (much better visibility from the cab than an 08), p-way work and also working passenger trains. The 40mph top speed doesn’t matter on such railways and from an...

Which might explain why the Aventra has been so poor, because Talent 3 has also been a disaster - most notably with ÖBB cancelling their Talent 3 order and going to Siemens instead.

Ah yes. I’ve never had a need to use that (yet).

Germany has https://bahn.expert/ which although it is by station, shows the schedule of a train if you click through. It doesn’t show freight/non-passenger services but for many DB workings it will show the stock allocation including vehicle numbers, if you pick the option to turn it on.

The GBRf pool codes give a pretty good idea of which locos can work where. GBCT (GBRf Class 92 Channel Tunnel): 92032/044 GBSL (GBRf Class 92 Sleeper): 92006/014/020/023/033 GBST (GBRf Class 92 Sleeper & Tunnel): 92010/018/028/038/043 That suggests that the locos in pools GBCT and GBST have...

You mean like, er, Alstom closing Washwood Heath and shifting electrical equipment production and development to France?

Good to see WCRC treating its customers with contempt by not providing them with any heating while charging them £65 for a ticket. It’s not exactly warm up there at the moment.

It doesn’t support that at all. Any preserved loco will have technical minder(s) with it who will need to go into the engine room, where they will need ear defenders. So probably just a convenient place to keep them.

Two fantastic Champions League Quarter Final second legs tonight with both PSG (against Barcelona) and Borussia Dortmund (vs Atletico Madrid) overturning first-leg deficits to go through. Not a good night for the Spanish teams!

You mean AWS.

I expect the ORR will have a "mystery shopper" up there to see what is going on.

One of the most impressive bits of station working I have seen was at Zürich Hbf terminal platforms, when a push-pull double deck sets arrived with 5mins for reversal and departure onwards. Except there were two old style EW I/II coaches on the back for a party of school children. Late...