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Are there any drivers on here that sign it? Now, rather than in the days of steam lolol :lol: If there are, i'd very much like to receive a PM from you, as i'm looking for a favour :)

I was up the front of an HST (2+8) out of Reading the other week, and she made 125 for several miles before braking for Didcot. Acceleration to 100 was very swift, with the final 25mph taking a little longer...

I'd rather pee on it than touch it, i know that. Better a cloud of steam than a singed middle finger. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Over-charging an air brake system will have exactly the opposite effect, i.e. to release the brake. Over-charging an air brake system is a...

Smell, touch, and pee too ;) Pee on it, and if it turns to steam, it's flippin' hot :lol:

I had a good look at 37707 and 895 at Bescot this evening. They are not in good condition ;)

Either a Llandaff or a Llanishen RFC boy then?

Thanks - got a link?

I was on this working last Saturday morning, the 6th of March. It went to NAW as 6Z20, loaded, and then went to Crewe Basford Hall as 6Z21. I'm not sure what the stone is being used for. Basford Hall as a destination suggests an engineering job, but the stone we haul out of NAW is too fine to...

No, i'm at Stoke Gifford, just behind Bristol Parkway. Wentloog, the Cardiff terminal, is owned and operated by FL Intermodal, and to the best of my knowledge there are no train crew based there. Those of us at Stoke Gifford all work for FL Heavy Haul. I live in Cardiff and support the...

006. I've been on her most of today and she's had no problems at all - she's worked proper tidy.

Yours truly was Thunderbird 2 on the 66 at the front ;)

There was a 59 down at MArgam last Saturday morning when i went past with the Abbey Wharf empties - was it 205?

Thanks for clearing that up. I guess dependant on the noves required within the worksite / T3, and the direction the train would be exiting from, a 66 at either end would be needed, which may very well make the hauling to site of the HOBC by Class 92 a bit pointless. But the point you make...

Which the Tories have never done, of course!!

Does there not need to be a current isolation when the HOBC is operating then? I would have thought that there would be, especially if the MFS wagons were to be topped-up on site....

Turbo cool-down will also keep engine revs high for anything up to 20 minutes after a loco has come to a stand, especially if they have been working hard in the period immediately before coming to a stand.

Dave, the distance between the rear bulkhead and the windscreens is different in the two cabs on a class 66 - it is much less at the cooler group end (no.2 end) than it is at the clean air end (no.1 end). Drop me a pm and i may be able to help you out with some bits and pieces on that. re...

The one at Cardiff definitely hasn't got it's exhaust covered. Not sure about the others though.

Freight locomotives aren't fitted with DRA equipment. Or, to be more precise, there is no requirement to fit freight locomotives with DRA equipment.

They confuse me too, and i work with them :P Would it be easier if i email you a photo?