Recent content by Donny_m

Graffiti vandal that’s become obsessed with the ins and outs of my canvas.

A full set of knackered Hanson hoppers was sat in Bristol Freightliner Depot all week with ‘OJO going off hire’ cards on each wagon. Today it was taken to Crewe Bas Hall. Very unusual for aggregate wagons as they’ve been on the quarry flows for decades, are they likely being scrapped, if so...

Tench and Mullet are their fish names. Tench is a freshwater fish, Mullet Saltwater.

Anyone who’s gone from a nice new rental car on holiday back go their 2010 clapper when you get back knows how the difference in braking sensitivity takes some getting used to at least on the first day, going into the new car and then going back to your own one. Maybe it’s similar between...

What’s this about, isn’t a usual move. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:27080/2023-01-21/detailed Still there today.

Makes you wonder.. This chap got 8 months jail suspended, 120 hours and £3000 fine. Average sentence for applying spray paint to a train is 2 years imprisonment, community service rarely less than 300 hours and fines £3000+ are standard…

I know how this is done, can’t remember who told me, but I was told there’s 2 teams x amount of distance apart, one team cuts the cable and attaches it to a winder drum and the other end cut their end and they wind 100’s of metres of cable onto the drum in seconds and speed off. Manufacturing...

Crazy. Must have been terrifying for the crew member who went in the drink.

Dawlish Warren. 2 stoppers 2 through tracks.

Anywhere with a lot of freight, or knackered old stock, no interest in modern passenger trains personally.

It was a rake of chop shop VTG hoppers usually based at east usk. It arrived around a week ago and left today. Wasn’t loaded up while there as there’s no loading area any more it’s full of the flatbeds that inter-modal lorries tow. I’m almost certain it was left there due to the strikes.

Haven’t used the train now since 2019. It would be the last method I check behind a bus coach ride share scooter walk or a taxi. Despite being in a comfortable wage bracket I can’t justify the prices they want these days and the unreliability was the final nail in the coffin.

Friend of mine works for a company with 189,000 employees one of the UK’s biggest tech employers, and they put out a memo last year stating that employees aren’t to take the train unless it’s an emergency as it has become so unreliable it was costing them millions. They have offered incentives...

I’m interested in to how this has ‘cut down’ on anything? Is it like a drug test where people may stop taking drugs knowing they may be tested at work? What do people do, all of a sudden sleep better? Surely the money should first be spent on the cause of fatigue rather than playing a siren to...

Ah yeh saw her pass while fishing in keynsham did notice quite empty.