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Will the Avanti sets have the tilt mechanism disabled? (Sorry if this has already been asked and answered, I've only skim-read the thread.)

One of the chargemen at my local station back in the late 80s used to go out to "post a letter" at around 8 whenever he was on late shift and return sometime after 9, despite the postbox being just outside the station entrance. Make of that what you will... :lol:

Clearly the significant downturn in traffic at Southampton Airport since Flybe went under hasn't resulted in a rethink of pricing policy in the station car park! I do take your point though.

The signal all the way up the SWML and the Portsmouth Direct is shocking, including once you're into the more densely populated areas inside the M25. I could never understand how i could have a solid 4G signal on a boat all the way from Vienna to Bratislava, despite the fact that for most of...

It's totally unrealistic - the amount of revenue that would be lost now is astronomical, or at least would have been pre-Covid. There was a suggestion upthread that park & ride stations should have free parking, but they are the least likely because of their captive market. Take the example of...

If you substituted "heroically brave" with "accurate", it might make a bit more sense. ;)

Portsmouth - Cardiff at Bristol...

This, especially if they were all loco-hauled!

Who's paying for all of that on the thousands of rail bridges around the country?

Summer Saturday south coast inter-regionals. Coupled with the Area D Rover, they were brilliant.

Prior to NSE, there was a Sunday only service from Portsmouth to Reading, worked by 33/1s and TC stock. Those were also the pre-Operation Princess days when Portsmouth had its inter-regional link to Reading and beyond via Guildford.

I can remember the days of the late 80s and early 90s when the calling patterns for the loco-hauled Portsmouth to Cardiffs were fairly erratic. Some were as fast as Southsea, Fareham, Soton, Romsey, Salisbury, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff (some might even have skipped Romsey). Stops between...

Back in the late 80s, I can recall passing by the middle cabs of a pair of TCs double-headed by 73s - as we exited the Popham tunnels southbound, the speedo in one of the cabs was reading a fraction under 110mph. Was never really sure if that was likely to be accurate or not, in the...

A colleague of mine ended up staying in a Premier Inn in Eastbourne after a work do in Croydon, having boarded a Victoria train to change at Clapham for the last connection to Portsmouth. Went in and out of Victoria and woke up as the train was arriving in Polegate... Worst I've managed was...

There's an article on Yahoo claiming that they'll be investing in trains that use battery power to pull away from stations to improve air quality. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/crosscountry-handed-three-deal-run-063455607.html

Great news for all their happy customers... https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/about-us/press/crosscountry-welcomes-new-contract-to-keep-vital-services-connecting-great-britain

I always had a soft spot for the 58s, mainly because they were rare as rocking horse doodah on the south coast, where I lived. I remember being quite excited when they started working the 6O86 coal from Didcot to Fratton on weekday evenings - never thought I'd get to see one in Fareham!

Twickenham and Ickenham for a near offer?

Chichester? Two crossings within about 50 yards! EDIT: Read the whole thread before commenting... o_O

One of the chargemen at Fareham back in the 80s used to announce "through train to Southampton" whenever the stopper from Portsmouth arrived.