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I was moaning at work about poor pay, short-term contracts and unreasonable expectations in the field I'm in (academia). Obviously sick of my moaning a colleague pointed out, you're always going on about trains, why don't you work for the railways? In normal situations I'd have jumped at the...

After watching Grayling make an utter buffoon of himself at the Tory conference, it struck me that I'll can't think of a more useless and dim-witted individual to occupy the post of transport minister.

Newhaven possibly? Three stations (Town, Harbour and Marine) to serve a town of 12,000 people. I know Marine is a 'ghost' station, but for a town that small it must take some beating. Plus the ratio of one station per 4000 people must take some beating too. My mother in law lives in Newhaven...

With another deadline about to be missed and little in the way of news coming out from those involved, I'm increasingly convinced that we won't ever see a 769 in revenue earning service. Surely the patience of the TOCs involved is finite and before too long they'll start looking elsewhere?

For me it was the Class 116s on the Cross City Line in the early to mid 80s. They were getting on for 25 years old and looked and sounded their age. They also had a very distinctive smell which I couldn't put me finger on (possibly a mixture of damp and brake dust) I loved the fact that if...