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Although not massively- 25 imperial tons is 25.4 tonnes (and 28 US tons)

there's a number of 20s that are tripcock fitted, and there's even apparently been (no idea if still are) three class 66s fitted, allowing them access to the Metropolitan lines and western Central line. I guess in your time there might still have been a connection at Leyton allowing Stratford...

for local commuting, it would be better if even fewer trains terminated at Cambridge- especially after Cambridge South station opens. most specifically, all trains that stop at all stations Royston-Cambridge and Bishops Stortford-Cambridge should go at least as far as Cambridge North (for the...

lower tractive effort, both starting and continuous

Class 40s were heavier (though on two more axles), less powerful and the eight wheel bogies won't have been nice on the tracks

That was the ambitious (too ambitious?) Operation Princess route map (and a reminder that despite supposedly it not being within the rules, Virgin really did try to make customers think that Cross Country and West Coast were just one operation

Surprisingly, only the oldest by a couple of years, as the class 487s (built in 1940) wore it.

East Coast was the 'orrible all-over plain grey, with dark grey doors. Thin purple stripe below window level, turning to blue above the word-mark logo.

I mean, as well as the East Coast & TPE examples, Chiltern still have Mark 3s with loco +DVT and will for a good few years yet

The only one I have personal experience of is "Le Petit Train de La Rhune", on the northern end of the Pyrenees in the Basque country. An usual electric heritage railway- the three phase electric locos used are from the 1920s, with wooden bodies. Unusual open sided carriages with a four wheel...

Veolia have since merged into Veolia Transdev who've then dropped the Veolia branding. There's a history of Veolia here

oops! Would have been good had BR gone more heavily on "diesels" like that!

Wasn't the Great Eastern mainline IC as well?

it's a crying shame that not a single Blue Pullman was preserved for static display, let alone in running condition.

The TPOs only had PCVs towards the end of the operations- the vehicles were only converted in the mid 90s!

By my reading, some time during the rebuilding between 1910 and 1922. Can't find anything more accurate than that

Even the trailers in the REPs were converted Mark 1s, all that was "new build" in the 4REP-4TC formation were the driving motor cars.

Your statement about the loading gauge would activate the siren were you on QI. Common misconception.

It's like a car crash, isn't it? You know you shouldn't be staring but but still, you slow down and gawp... Anyway, here's the home page of the James Randi Foundation $1million challenge. A lot of applicants pull out during protocol negotiations. It's amazing, almost as if they realise...

Quite- those that wish to attribute anything "odd" to the "supernatural" are perhaps the most closed of minds, unwilling to accept that the scientific answer may just not have been found...