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Reading the comments under the Telegraph article has made me realise just how many oxygen thieves this country has. Morons, most of them. I can't find my comment trying to put them straight - at least I tried. Pat

Not forgetting 34067 (again!) losing a connecting rod at Farnborough. Can't remember the year. Pat

Is the right answer. Pat

Regarding the -man suffix: In the past there were few more formidable MPs than Gwyneth Dunwoody, Chairman of the Transport Select Committee. When someone addressed her as 'Chair' she replied that she was not a piece of furniture! Pat

One definite date that I have found is 6th October 1971 - the date of the letter of approval from the Minister of Transport. Pat

I am reminded of the remark of a Woking driver some 30 years ago, relating his reply when his son came home and told him that he was going to be a signaller. 'You're my son, and I'll always love you, but you're the enemy now!' Pat

'Cutty Sark' started as a tea clipper, but when the steamships took that trade she was put into the wool trade. I remember (from a visit decades ago!) that the display said that screw jacks were used to compress the wool bales, to make room for more. All that suggests a low value cargo, with...

The same thing happened under a works train at International Junction, Waterloo, in 2017. After the August fiasco of the passenger train being routed into the side of a works train I contacted RAIB about it. The reply was that they were aware of the earlier incident. I do wonder if the same...

35028 Clan Line belongs to the Merchant Navy Locomotive Preservation Society and works out of Stewarts Lane. Nothing to do with Carnforth. Pat

DB Cargo Rail (UK) is not DB Schenker. Pat

ORR Authorisation to Place into Service: https://www.orr.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2023-12/stadler-rail-class-93-orr-authoristation-letter-2023-12-14.pdf Pat

The first time I rode on a 350 I couldn't believe how it took off from rest. Being used to the 450s I assumed that the difference was down to the relative availability of volts, as they are the same units under the skin. Pat

Alternative view: pesky passenger trains screwing up freight trains (and soaking up subsidy money like a sponge). (Guess which bit of the railway I used to work in :D) Pat

This had me wondering at first. In my Woking PW days (1974-84) we called the bridge Holly bank Bridge, after the road on the south. Pat

Corris No. 10. Pat