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https://www.itv.com/news/london/2024-01-11/london-trains-could-get-cardboard-steering-wheels-to-boost-passengers-fun No further comment :rolleyes:

Do 1M96 Willesden Warrington (19:27) form 1S96 20:02 Warrington Sheildmuir, and 1M44 Sheildmiur Warrington (18:53) form 1A97 19:19 Warrington Willesden, or is there some other 325s diagramming shennigans not obtainable from the likes of RTT ? Just wondering if all 3 units are through workings...

Suggestion. How about some preserved diesels yielding their BR blue and warning yellow for Ukraine blue and yellow ? I'm only making that suggestion for one of visible support for Ukraine. Not going into the whys and wherefores and costs and effort of doing that. Nor into the exact shades of...

Can anyone help with or point me to WR based DMU actual formations ? What I mean by this is the numbers** of the cars that made up each 3-car unit I refer to. I am specifically after 4 types of 3-car DMU from 3 depots (using later three digit class numbers) units : 120 3CC BR Swindon...

Dublin DART EMU classes 8500 / 8510 / 8520 .... are they AC or DC motor ? Their age ought to make them AC motor .... but I can't track down any gen on this. Anyone cite an authoritative technical source on them, Tokyu own site does not have this gen. -- Nick

Yesterday I was on the Pathfinder Buffer Puffer 11.1 - top and tailed throughout by 20303 and 20304. It seemed to me both 20s appeared somewhat higher than the carriages. Of course I know not all stock is all of the same height, but it was not that. And I had for haulage 177 different 20s in...

In 1961 Grimesthorpe shed, Sheffield, closed to steam but retained for diesel locomotives until Tinsley opened in 1965. There is some variation in wording used in both books and web sites, and all are rather vague. Some say Grimesthorpe was for stabling diesels, other say servicing, and none...

Were there any loco diagrams, or individual freight trains, specified to be worked by vacuum braked locos with EQ (equalisation) brakes ? I seem to recall LMR 25s (and 40s ?) based at Buxton for Peak Forest - Northwich hoppers were supposed to be EQ but this a vague memory and I'm not sure of...