Recent content by satters

The Midland Red bus station & garage in Stourbridge I remember well, sadly now gone

I wonder how long it will remain operational, before as so many it fails and gets a paper notice atop of it, or just switched off blank

We have had some excellent ex forces chaps come to the railway, don’t limit yourself to just operative

very well put, the quality of the society values in the country have followed that same curve that the virus is tracking, sadly we have had the glory days, now well...

it has caused proplems in the past, I've been on the operating floor when the signalman has given the soho road route when the stour is blocked, and the driver has come on the phone saying i dont know the road, and thats the job stopped !

not all drivers sign the old road :(

I think the situation regarding signalling staff is rather more dire than may be expected, i have colleagues that are former signalmen that have been contacted directly and asked to return

anyone with access to the logging systems know sometimes what staff get told can be wrong, and what the passengers get told, often bears little resemblance to the actual cause, a case of messages passing through too many hands that do not understand

I travelled the sleeper back before privatisation when there were rumours of it ceasing, Best railway experience I’ve ever had

Upgrade isn’t really the right term, the 25mph limit comes from heritage railways running under a “light railway order” the track is often much better maintained than many national lines due to having to carry much heavier steam locomotives rather than just multiple units

Upgrading the Chiltern route should definitely be an aspiration, there was demand warranting both LMS and GWR routes between Birmingham and London in the past, and there is even more demand now, Upgrading what there is, and reopening what was closed should be the plan for many reasons, and if...

There is something akin to that beside the motorway in Auckland New Zealand

There was a 1959 tube stock unit in a garden in Herefordshire I used to pass back in the 1990s

Whitlocks End since the turn back for short services was moved from Shirley with the resignalling of the north Warwick line

Travelling on DMUs from Stourbridge Junction in the Early 1970s are my first railway experiences, I never thought then that forty odd years later that fascination would lead me to where I am in the Railway