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Hi Every night for these few weeks I have heard something noisy operating through Hitchin going north or south usually between 1030 to 1100 pm. (it was 2245 last night and 2255 the previous night) It is so loud I can hear it through double glazed windows - I live around 200meters from...

My least favourite class of train is represented by the Voyager/Meridian - I hate these offspring of the AntiChrist so much I won't even look at a model one let alone travel on a real one. Having been behind a class 50 on the Severn Valley Railway recently which conked out and had to be...

Hi I was on a UK Railtours trip several years ago when a SWT and Mainline 73 were used on nine mark 1s. They ran on diesel power from Worting Junction to Salisbury. I clocked them at 80mph (using stopwatch and mileposts) on the approach to Salisbury.The driver claimed 75mph on the speedo, and...

Hi I am not sure if you mean cubic capacity or horsepower, so please bear with me. I know that the Paxman Ventura Engines used in "Majestic" had total cubic capacity of 79 litres and were rated at around 1100hp - from which the Valenta was later developed.In the class 29 they were 1350hp...

Hi I just wanted to clarify my post.The GNER HST I was on was a summer dated working and it was on loan to Virgin/Arriva Cross Country.The Malverns were a slightly disorientating, but pleasant sight to behold out of the window at one point.We passed a Midland Mainline HST in the opposite...

I was on a day's HST bashing a few years back, when the GNER HST I was on failed at Cheltenham with a electrical fault.It was arranged for it to work via Kidderminster to get to Birmingham.As soon as we had the OK for this, the power car started working properly again! The Guard was a fellow...

Mark one non-corridor stock from Moorgate to Kings Cross via widened lines behind a blue class 31, otherwise Cravens units and Deltics. I also remember those R and COP(?) London Transport units with the flared sides, which seemed a lot noisier and rattlier then any other underground trains and...

I'm not surprised Threads has come up more than once - not sure if this might not come under the "drama documentary" category rather than film though... I watched Threads recently on YouTube and had to stop at 27 minutes in and had nightmares for a week afterwards and felt distinctly odd for a...

I rate these units very highly, although the seating in standard class is a little harder and firmer than I would like.1st class is very pleasant for a modern unit. My first run on one, just after they were introduced on the Portsmouth Line, was always going to stick in my mind - 15 minutes...

The Pacer Bashing Day sounds like a novel and entertaining day out.Were the Pacers really that cheap in the end -given the need to have class 31/37/47 loco-hauled substitutions when they were new, and all that money spent on them to put decent transmissions in them to get them to work...

I'm not sure if this one belongs in the "best day bashing" or the "worst train trip post". In March 1993, the 158s on the Cardiff-Liverpool services were replaced for a short while by class 37/4's and four mark twos. On the day I travelled (the Saturday nearest to 25/03/1993) I took the 37...

Hi Guys Interesting posts, all of which I have enjoyed reading. The best day out bashing I ever had was in 1995 when I went from Bangor to Loughborough. The trains were a class 37 and mark twos from Bangor to Stafford, a class 309 from Stafford to New Street, a 158 from New Street to...