Recent content by ilkestonian

My theory; nothing more than the usual limit on preserved lines is 25mph* and that appeared quite a bit faster. *Though there can be exceptions on some lines when the line isn't open to passengers, so maybe it wasn't sped up?

Its complete rubbish IMHO. It seems to me that the pathologists or whatever they are supposed to be have turned into crime fighting superheroes who barely need the inconvenience of working alongside the police to solve the crimes and apprehend the offenders...

Thanks, yes, looking at photos of the tunnel on Wikipedia it does look to be the case..

Nene Valley apparently, though some rail scenes, eg the tunnel, filmed elsewhere

I'm assuming you're referring to the position of the points for the line exiting the tunnel, which appear set to cross the route of the SWR service? If this is the point you are making, then *if* the accident resulted from the SWR service hitting the side of the GWR dmu, surely it is possible...

Thanks both. That's esentially what I'd assumed, but wanted to be sure.

I wonder if I might please call on the collective wisdom here. Two or three weeks ago, two friends booked a West Midlands Trains journey for today, Stafford to Euston, which I think involved a change at Rugby. They had an email either last night or early today advising that the train was...

The irony of the hyperbole spouted by Gareth Dennis is that it might well lead to some travellers reading this and deciding to take their car instead of the train. And I'm pretty sure an HST is safer than any car, however it's measured. But I doubt he worries about facts like that getting in...

It does to me, and given the position of the leading derailed bogie in that picture, I'd say it's odds on that it has pushed the track to the right and distorted it slightly before coming to a halt.

Don't remember that, but he did just about everything else, so it would not surprise me. The one thing I imagine might have been a tad uncomfortable would have been to try this back in the day under a main line steam loco, only to find the fireman hadn't wound the water scoop up properly...

I'm not sure if it's still available, but a few years ago a computer signalling simulation called simsig was available. Some scenarios had to be purchased but some were free, among which was a superb Euston sim, emulating (IIRC) a timetable from the 1970s. You could run it in real time over a...

Yes. Strictly the four foot eight and a half, or metric equivalent, I guess :) And the space between two running lines is 'the six foot'. Then you have the space to the side of the four foot, away from any other running line, known as the cess.

Am I the only one who is a tad uncomfortable with the subject matter of this programme? Very clever weaving of fact and fiction, but I wonder if it might encourage trespassing in a very dangerous environment, especially given the claims that there were no overnight trains and the first of the...

Caught at Norton Bridge shortly after leaving Crewe on the return leg to St Pancras...

Just a thought, what were the maximum allowed speeds of 8Fs compared to 9Fs? I think some 8Fs were rebalanced for higher speed, but not sure when this was done. Maybe 8Fs were too slow?