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Hi all can anyone confirm the current location of the standard gauge industrial garratt 6841 William Francis. I know it was at Bressingham, but it doesn't seem to be on their website now?

Another option would be to create more paths by running direct from Rotherham to Sheffield by the freight line and Nunnery Curve. Of course this would mean missing Meadowhall which has developed into a parkway station for Sheffield and Rotherham and would be unattrcative to TPE.

I'll have a go... How long would it have taken from London to Florence? probably 48 hours, affluent travellers are likely to have stayed overnight in hotels along the route. Would it have been from Charing Cross to The Leopolda stations? Charing cross would have been an option, but 1870...

OK so if I understand the contributions to this thread, building an HST that could run off OHLE isn't possible because of the complexity of a transformer to convert the power to DC for the traction motors. So.... would it be possible to have an electro diesel hst that could pick up from...

many thanks - I will schedule a visit. Sitting on a giant head to watch the trains going past will be novel.

I noticed the landscape sculpture of the woman lying on her back the other day. Where is it and what is the story? And can you visit it?

You are quite right that the workplace parking levy would not be used to fund tram extensions outside of Nottingham city, but not quite as right in saying that the tram goes into the county. The new tram lines stay within Nottingham City not the county (although the line between wilford and...

You don't have to listen to rumours, the tram stops in clifton are going to be: north end of Southchurch Drive At then of Rivergreen Just south of the Clifton Cornerstone Holy trinity There is an information evening for clifton residents at the cornerstone on the 8th March 5:30...

NCT have just announced that they will be filling the gap by increasing the frequency of the no1 to 15 minutes which is very welcome to those of us who had become used to using skylink as our regular bus link to the city. Also they will be introducing a new night bus N1 which will take up the...

At the moment the fastest trains are 99minutes from Nottingham ( 7:50) and 92 minutes from Derby, as the distances are pretty much the same it does seem that modest line speed improvements as well as the Nottingham area resignalling (next summer?) could deliver 90 minutes to both.

another reason why this would be a dangerous thing to implement is that a timer could only give you the time before a single train has cleared the crossing. If a second train in the other direction strikes in before the first train has cleared then the timer would be counting down to zero...

I travelled on them in 2002 so Im happy to know they are still in use, even if not with DB. The ride was noticably smoother than other sleepers that I have been in, and the cabins were roomy.

they are indeed talgo sleepers. I can recommend them, they are remarkably comfortable to ride and sleep in.

The signallers were enticed by a shorter working day (6 hour shift - quite an incentive in victorian times) and by a wage supplement of I think 2and 6 a week. But few stuck it for more than a couple of years.

The short answer is no. There is only room for two tracks through the cutting and along the viaduct for about 1.5 miles and it would require an unimaginable amount of money to widen the route. alternatives might be to free up some paths by routing sheffield rotherham doncaster services...

(The MML does have less traffic right? EMT only operate a few trains an hour along it, and I dont think anyone else really runs along it for major periods of time) The MML is close to capacity - see the NR RUS

absolutely - the line has stunning scenery for most of its length, and as others have said you get to see steam engines working hard for mile after mile hauling long trains. As for comfort, I prefer the open carriages, but paying the extra and enjoying first class is also extremely pleasant.

hi Ive just been having a look but I can't find any reference to a striker as a railway occupation. You could try searching further via the national railway museum which has an excellent reference collection, or there are a couple of sites online which have extensive railway document...

hi I assume you are looking at the occupation in the 1871 census. Just a suggestion but do you think the handwriting might say "stoker" ( the r and the i could run together) . If so then he would probably have worked at derby works on the stationary boilers.