Recent content by Justin Smith

Justin Smith said: another classic example, it [Swinton station foot bridge] is severely rusting now and (in fact one of the walkways might even be closed) and it's only about 35 years old. I am not sure it's ever been repainted actually, but even if it has doing so would have been an expensive...

Just added the Elan Valley aqueduct (1896/1906) to my Cobbs, Wales to Birmingham, 73m long (route).

Was looking through my 1986 "Platform 5" stock book and it had the "680/1" engine (as fitted to many 1st generation DMUs) at 150hp.

Very interesting. I thought the H just stood for Horizontal ? I have down in my database that the 680 produced 175bhp at 2000rpm in a 1972 Leyland Atlantean and the same in a 1977 Leyland Leopard ?

That sound more likely to me.

I was reading through my Ian Allan 1978 BR Motive Power combined Volume (bought at Oxford market for £3 ! ) and, at the start of the Diesel Multiple Units section I read this : "Gloucester and Swindon-built cross country units are having their BUT/AEC engines replaced with the more powerful...

Wonderful story, a bit different from my experience at one or two heritage railways. I was actually a member, and, in fact, for one, back in 2004, I had recently been working on D9009 which was still there at the time, yet they wouldn't let me and my Dad have look round. "Come back on an open...

I can remember when I was about twelve back in the mid 70s going with the school to the National Railway Museum at York. At that time there was a British Railways yard just at the side of the museum and a group of us were sitting watching an engine being worked there. After a short while the...

Is that still double ? Google earth is not conclusive as to its length, it appears the two lines at the western end do not re-join

Sorry that was my error. I meant from Par to Newquay ! Incidentally my 1979 Bakers map gives the whole line as singled, with passing loops at Goonbarrow and St Dennis Junc. 1742837107 I have 1939 for that.

I speak as a (very) small employer, but the thing I don't understand about all of this is that if an employee is a good conscientious worker why would an employer want to get rid of them ? On the other hand if the employee is not so good or conscientious then why should the employer be expected...

Just seen in the Railway Magazine that the new platform at Newquay has been finished, if not actually in use yet. I then checked on when the previous second platform was taken out of use and Wiki said 1987. Is that correct, and was that the same time that the line from Burngullow to Newquay was...

No, I would not be hopping mad, or certainly not as hopping mad. 1742485671 DynamicSpirit said: but it does seem incredibly stupid and incredibly 'jobsworth' to not allow the train to open the doors if it ends up actually stopped at a platform where people are expecting it to stop (I don't know...

If I were waiting for a train which I need to catch to make say an appointment or catch a connection and it went straight through the station without stopping I'd be hopping mad, absolutely livid. 1742377020 A timetable must be reliable so the passenger can rely on it or it isn't worth the...

Thank you for your efforts so far !