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The service provided or lack of has been nothing short of disgraceful! Evening peak trains cut back to just the half hourly all stations Victoria to Gillingham, surely they could have dropped well served london stations like Denmark Hill, Crofton Park and Bellingham to speed these trains up a bit!!

158749 has been out today running exeter to Okehampton

Nothing showing for today I can find running in cornwall? can you advise the location and time of the photo. Not all the GW 150s have been repainted yet. 150238 and 150219 both in old FGW colours have been out coupled together as 4 cars running between Exeter and Paignton all day.

I dont understand your question i doubt there would have been any difference had it opened in 1980 compared to when it opened in 1993. The origins of Eurostar today are exactly what you said it was formed from an agreement between BR, SNCF and SNCB. Eurostar trains were built using dual voltage...

From Medway towns area the "classic" services were deliberately cut back and made slower with additional station stops to make the HS1 service seem more attractive as it costs a premium. Even now the HS1 is not that much quicker on this route, depending where in London you want to get to. It...

I travelled today on Southeastern service from Hastings to London Charing Cross, which due to engineering possesion on the mainline, was diverted via Beckenham Junction and the Hayes line to Lewisham. This got me wondering is this a common diversionary route? and did Southeastern struggle to...

Take a look at www.kentrail.org.uk/Chatham_1991.jpg Good example of these in background on platform 2.

Getting back to the origanal post on this. The tower block covered in green netting referred to is Maydew House part of the Abbeyfield estate in London borough Southwark. It is supposedly being refurbished with plans including additon of extra floors. However work seems to have come to a halt...

Gillingham Kent day return to london terminals off peak. Non HS1. According to website i should be able to use this to travel to Vauxhal as its listed under there defination of London Terminals.

According to Southeastern website a non HS1 ticket with destination as London terminals is valid on any reasonable route to; Victoria, Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Blackfriars, City Thameslink, London Bridge, Waterloo East, Waterloo mainline and Vauxhal. Why do they include Waterloo and...

Following the electrification from Bishops stortford to Cambridge in the late 80s, services were initally worked by loco hauled with class 86 or outer suburban 305s. These were replaced by the 321s when new in 1989 along with class 310 slam door units cascaded from Euston/Northampton. The 321s...

Travel a lot on Southeastern and the 375s have a lot of problems with air con not working or struggling in the heat. Making for some extremley uncomfortable traelling conditions. Given the 375 fleet has all undergone a refurbishment programme in the last 3 years, would have thought this wouldn't...

There are some of these on the newly laid track sections at the new Rochester station, had wondered what they were for.

Whilst waiting approx halfway along platform 2 at London Bridge for the arrival of train. I noticed on the live rail it had another section of rail painted yellow laid alongside the shoe ramps either side of a section gap. On this piece of yellow rail was written "short circuiting bar must not...

The final 317/2 units were delivered in NSE livery. 317366 & 317367 were initially refused delivery from BREL as they were mistakenly still outshopped in blue/grey and these had to be hastily repainted. 317368 to 317372 delivered in NSE from new.

The very first loco to receive large logo livery was 56036

The 05.22 London Victoria to Ramsgste stopping service has been formed of a 377/5 vice 375 unit since last Monday 16th Oct.

As a regular commuter, peak time overcrowding of HS1 services is a servre issue. The fleet of only 29 395's is insufficent and vast majority of services are only formed of a single 6 car train. There has been an increase in passengers in last couple of years, using these services probably to...

This may help. http://www.derbysulzers.com/class46end.html

Informative article at, www.southernelectric.org.uk/features/historical-features/brfleet_hap.html I have info on the individual unit numbers, withdrawal dates, conversions into 4 caps etc and don't forget the Gatwick express Driving luggage vans.