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I spent most of my working life on the railway in the operating C.M.E.E and Civil Engineering department's and found many things wrong and when reported was always sorted. Never told I was wrong, I did tell a signalman to close the line once and got under a lot of pressure to run trains at...

I remember talking to vic berry at his Leicester scrap yard. He was selling loco and wagon axles that went to Belgium for razor blade manufacturing and special steel products.

Anyone know when Kettering Market H, power switches on

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Picked this up is it railway?

My wife’s brother is in Kings Hospital London and his wife has been visiting him. She has been travelling back to Sevenoaks most nights on 20.28 train which is quite lightly loaded. As soon as she gets on she is approached by men asking for money this has become common on this train. She is...

My own view is, it never got the investment in the network and rolling stock, If it was still in public ownership it would the last to get public funds. The railway has almost all new trains now, would never have happened if had not been privatised. I worked at brb in late 80’ mid 90’s To me the...

Thanks for info . On the rail delivery travel site which, My son found on searching I can use my SR blue pass on AW-FAR the rest of the line by dating my leisure pass. Both I am sure don't open gate's. Will have to find staff to open gates

Advice please Traveling to Paddington late June from Kent best route would be via Abbey Wood, However my blue pass is SR only been told it's valid to Farringdon don't think it opens gate's do I get off there, and use my bank card to tap in and out at pad on return I would have get off and on...

I remember being spoken to for taking my tie off at 222.

I remember when I worked at toton what kept them going was the fact they worked in pairs. Was very common to have bits not working on one loco

I remember talking to Alen Barter who was project manager for LT stock conversion for the IOW when he was DTE south east div. Said easy job

Not sure of date mid to late 50's put on train at Grimsby changed at Peterbotough for Kings Cross and a blue Deltic came in , had never been on a train that went so fast. And the sound I remember the sound of real power.

Wagons were reoiled after tipping. Depots had oilers who would top up axles. Pad exams would be done at depots. Some wagon deopts had cleaning systems for axle boxs. New Pads were soaked then left on draining racks. Pre 1960 lots of wagons had grease boxs . Oilers would chalk the date on the...

Looked at the photo in more detail on my laptop The wagon in the distant under the high signal post I am sure is hybar high 5 plank goods wagon not used for coal more general goods the bar could be lifted up and the load tarped over.

Frozen coal was a major problem with bottom discharge wagons. MGR wagons would arr at power stn with 33t of solid coal grit/dust. A problem no more

I have no knowledge of coal wagons of this type. I worked as station shunter visiting station yards all the wagons were unloaded by a grab bucket. Or the coal men would drop a door then bag it up in bags. Thats the 1960s I then worked as depot foreman of a wagon repair shop . We did have coal...

Thats tywell stn in the photo

I worked at Tywell in 1970"s iron ore was loaded in the station yard . A class 25 and 27t tippler wagons were used. The loaded wagons went to west midlands. The station was standing and in good condition. It had a double sided clock. I asked the property office if I could buy it, told it would...

I used to be a examiner in the late 60's One of my jobs was check trains out stabled at night all over kent DMU and EMU"s. I can only remenber one thing that was unsafe a shoe beam hanging off a emu Most things would be carded. Do remember that DMU's some seen had brake blocks allmost worn away...