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Don't know what was going on down there today but there's a squashed stopblock (the yellow item, thats where the siding ends btw) & a steel wagon resting against a building. Saw it on the way out whilst driving, on way back I had a road learner with me & got him to take the shot. He did a good...

Ok so it's not exactly scale, but it was my first and only venture into live steam. I had this loco as a kit in 1989 for christmas when I was in my teens. It ran, ok ish for about a year but then suffered slipping wheel's on one axle. This was about the time that Mamod stopped trading as far as...

Trouble at Shrewsbury last night when 175003 working the 22:17 (off Shrewbury) Cardiff-Manchester service. It failed at Church Stretton with lack of air & gremlins in the TMS. Managed to crawl into shrewsbury just under an hour late where it was held & coupled up to 175111 which was on a...

I've started again on building a layout, lessons learned from the first attempt & building a new PC made the first route go a bit wrong. This time I have based it on a period during the late 80's, early 90's. A time when I started working on the real life railway & a time that was happy...

I have just noticed that the forum title thingy, the one that assigns you a grade by the amount of post's. Well I was graded at driver & now I'm signaller, WTF! :-( For a start the phrase signaller offends me & secondly how the heck is signaller an grade up from driver??? I came from signalling...

Been messing about with KRS for the last week & I'm really enjoying it. Started My first route & its coming on ok. I will link it to my post on UKtrainsim if thats ok. Although I could put all the photo attachments in this post but dont have time at the minute. Ok just a couple & then the...

Found this on the net,I found it funny anyway! After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet," which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets...

Hi, Couldnt decide what section to put this in so here go's. Does anyone know where I can get hold of BR style depot stickers,the kind that used to be applied to loco's? I'm after a couple of Shrewsbury Depot ones (Believe its "SO" as it was refered to as Salop at the time) I need these...

Does anyone know exactly how much of the overall roof is going at Crewe? All I hear from people at work & from network rail is that the whole roof across all platforms is coming down & probably being replaced by a toytown style looking thing similar to the north end of platform 12. I have no...

Just started putting together a site for photo's I have taken since I've worked on the railway. I started in 1990 at Wolverhampton as a Box lad & since then: -Wolverhampton Relief Shunter(covered Oxley as well). -Signalman at Madley Jcn. -Signalman at Hartlebury. -Signalman briefly at...