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This of course is the source of the term pilot engine to describe the engine sent out a few minutes before the Royal Train. (Once upon a time)

Thank you!

I was interested to learn what mixing desk was so clicked on the links above (in the end all of them). With my up to date iphone and iOS only one of them worked. The rest were almost identical in appearance and totally unresponsive. What am I doing wrong?

“As many revenue streams as possible” sounds all very plausible but in this day and age cutting costs is more important. Even if one or both Fairburns were available the cost of the staggeringly expensive, utterly crap coal needed to pound a class 4 backwards and forwards up a 1 in 73 gradient...

The Lakeside & Haverthwaite is a very well managed railway. Its objectives are staying solvent and not having to seek donations or crippling loans. The L@HR have always been aware that ‘normals’ (the term used on this forum I believe) are the guarantors of fininancial security not...

I spend more time than I should trawling through YouTube searching for, amongst other things, videos of model railway layouts. Typically my favourites are UK prototypes up to late 80s. I have had no interest in European layouts until that is I came across the exquisite work of Renaud Yver and...

There is a fascinating BR (edit: LNER) film (or even earlier) on YouTube entitled “buffer stop tests Bradford”. Well worth a look

Our power cuts run up to 5 days in duration. Sometimes a mere flicker but more often 18 hours plus. 6 hrs UPS is risible in that context.

‘Orange Juice’ sold from catering trollies in 3-d triangular cardboard containers (humbug tetrahedral shape)

My bold. There are more than that! I watch Leslie Gilpin’s videos of Carlisle and environs. In the first few minutes of the last one (2 days ago) 66186 is seen pulling an engineering train. There seem to be at least half a dozen usual suspects in EWS livery floating in and out of Carlisle on...

Just noticed this thread. Having had a whole series of tests spread over two years I am currently awaiting a final appointment for a cardiac ablation therapy operation. Following my first covid jab my heart developed a wild arrhythmia and is pumping desperately badly. My consultant who is a...

Indeed which is why I dated my comments (GWR 1948, WW2 1945). I think the GWR usage (in both cases) confirms a geographical usage of ‘ew’ pronounced’ow’.

Many Great Western Railway engineering drawings include the words ‘shew’ and ‘Shewn’ in reference to projections where the pronunciation was show and shown. I have also seen two non-railway films set around WW2 where signs at GWR booking halls read “all passengers must shew travel passes” or...

The totems at this station have been a simple ‘Cark’ for quite some years now.

This….. exactly this. Anything else is foreign wibble.

If platforms etc are permissible then there’s Central Station in Leeds. I must have left/arrived at every platform and track connecting the station to the remaining network.

Have I missed something? Can’t see any of the Lake District ones in previous posts! So that’s Penrith-Keswick (never did go on to Cockermouth but did nab a Keswick totem whilst they were knocking the station down). Foxfield- Coniston Plumbton-Haverthwaite (inc both sides of the triangle)...

Reading through this thread it strikes me that simply quoting population sizes is a poor way of estimating potential demand to any given place is unsound. As a Yorkshireman it may grate but cannot be denied that London has a ‘pull’ that is nothing to do with the population. For one it is a...

Ha! You truly are an offcomer as we would say up North. In modern English usage the words ‘rural’ and ‘bus’ have no meaning when used in the same sentence (except the one I’ve just written). Someone has offered you some good advice early on …… try without one and see how you get on. It all...

Incident on WCML made me late back home so stopped in for fish and chips twice (plus a scallop/fish cake)………£18 ! First time visited since before covid, undoubtedly the last time I shall ever visit. So sad after a lifetime of loving fish and chips