Recent content by lazydragon

Never really had any hassle as such, but I was once at Temple Meads, and had walked to the other end of the station (the one where not much happens) to grab a few photos. One guy walked half way up the platform, (I got the vibe of being scouted), then walked back into the station, and I'm...

Booo! Just being selfish I suppose, driving the route several times a month....a train would mean I could ditch the car altogether. £755 million could get a really comprehensive government report on Welsh railways that we would have no funds to implement I suppose.

Personally, I'd love to see a start on reopening the line from Carmarthen to Aberystwyth. There's lots of work to even make it feasible, but with new Welsh Assembly offices in Aber, it might give the bigwigs in Cardiff a reason to try and link up with the underlings in Mid Wales. More than a...

I was lucky enough as a kid to get in the cab of a 37 on the Cambrian Coast railway, I think I nipped in just after Machynlleth, stayed in until we got to Aberystwyth, and remember that blowing the horn for the crossings was the best thing ever! Today, I think I'd like to take a loco driven...

Lots of worthy projects on there, really interested in the one I've voted for that I didn't even know existed before today.

Even West Ham didn't want any part of that waste of air miles.

Gutted that my Irons have lost Payet for three months after a ridiculous challenge in the Everton match over the weekend. Payet has been a complete revelation so far this year, and firing us into European contention has been down to him in no small measure. McCarthy should have been red...

Another benefit of driving a train instead of a car in fog is that you don't have (that many?) idiots driving with a full beam instead of dipped headlights, not improving their visibility and making the whole experience slower for all.

I reckon Wales will be without Bale and Ramsey, but that's going to be a bigger blow for us than Depay and Van Persie will be to the Dutch. Not a great start to the Garde era in the Villa game either (although I know technically he's only watching tonight).

Hope you're enjoying...getting my hours played into double figures this weekend. I usually start off by working through the default challenges. I then pick an international league to play a career game to get fully used to the system with all the new bells and whistles every year. Then, I...

Anyone else already getting their latest attempt at sabotaging their social life under way? Due to overtime only got a few hours in yesterday and today after the beta access for the game was launched. It looks quite nice at the moment, still discovering some of the nuances and the new tricks...

Although not really relevant to today's engines, my dad still tells a story about how we went to visit my uncle, who used to work in Holbeck depot, and we went down to the shed one night, and he took us in to the cab of what we think was a Class 25. I was only three at the time, but when my...

How warm are the cabs - you'd imagine they'd want some kind of ventilation to keep the drivers on the ball. Saw a HST pulling out of Paddington last Thursday with the door open, and it was not a warm day.

I travel every now and then with my sister and brother in law, who's a driver, and he always seems to be talking to the staff or another driver he meets on the train, exchanging stories and going back through their histories to see who they know. I wouldn't necessarily say that the...

Hoi think hoi sin something similar once before, but not sure if it was another type of bird. Saw plenty of chickens on the train when I was traveling in Asia.