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DB-Schenker is for sale- l formation from from Reuters and DB Schecker website. It will be interesting to see how this impacts on UK operations. https://www.deutschebahn.com/en/presse/press_releases/Deutsche-Bahn-starts-DB-Schenker-sale-process--12589158

Noticed recently on the WLA website and on the SVR diesels Facebook page that D1048 has been gifted to the WLA by the locomotive owners.

The Rover we used in mid to late 1980’s was definitely valid to Portsmouth and Weymouth and Weston ,fairly sure that was the Wessex , Cost ?£15 .It had much the same boundary as the The Freedom of Severn & Solent Rover that is available currently. I think validity northwards from Bristol towards...

5th January 1985 73003/005 on 1Z25 the Kent Hopper between Faversham to Ashford via Canterbury and Dover changed from electric to diesel power on the fly owing to weather conditions (heavy snow falls in eastern Kent). Tour had started at Plymouth with no problems a far as London ,as we travelled...

Distance about a mile and a twenty minute walk according to google maps which I would guess is about right having walked it myself several times.

Maybe look at Through limestone hills : The Peakline from Ambergate to Chinley by Bill Hudson. Several copies on Amazon.

Strike day today ,as far as I can see the last long distance train from Kings Cross is the 1S25 1627 KGX YORK which obviously only goes as far as York ,with no onward connection to Newcastle until tomorrow morning.

Owing to 7th January now being a strike day The class 56 farewell has now been rescheduled to 14th January . Information from ukrailtours website. Hopefully that date will remain strike free.

Units were 158748-158751 might have been a couple of others at various times.

So is there a website other than LNER that you you can just do seat reservations on if you are already in possession oF a valid ticket ie all line rover/long distance season?

definitely so since the national coal board paid for it!

A negative test only proves you were negative at time of testing, not necessarily your current status.

From information on derbysulzers website 44008 did a test run on 10th July 1980 on the 1207 Derby St Pancras as far as Leicester, by this this time it had reaquired it’s white stripe on the lower body side it also appears to have had its roof painted white on its works visit. Can’t see a stripe...

Travelled on this service a couple of weeks ago when we were in Israel. It runs twice hourly at approx 01/31 past the hour from Tel Aviv airport.Stock is DB like double deck carriages with traxx 147 clones numbered in the 3000 series as motive power. Journey takes about 25 minutes,quite a lot of...

166205 on 2U26 1648 Great Malvern to Cardiff replaced at Gloucester by 166213. Defective internal doors given as reason so unable to traverse Severn tunnel.

150202 started diagram on 2Z16 0641 Westbury Gloucester. 2E16 was 25 late ex Salisbury and was cancelled at Westbury.Set then followed normal diagram of 2O86 0841 Gloucester Weymouth then 2E24 1310 Weymouth Gloucester and then 2O97 1640 Gloucester Weymouth.

158953 worked 2F99 that date so obviously swapped somewhere.