I've just checked rhe schedule for a freight 6Y48 0901 Eastleigh East Yard to Hoo Jn Up Yard yesterday...
The platforms should feed across from the NR planning systems into RTT and other open access systems. Platforms and other details can be amended...
Platform 2 and Middle Siding do not have any connection to the Up Windsor slow except at Ludgate Jn, London end of Clapham Jn on the Windsor...
The air con BFK is part of the Belmond fleet. The BFK with opening windows is 17096, the Merchant Navy LPS support coach which is tucked away in...
After six years of weaving special traffic freights around South London, pathing down trains via Pouparts Jn was always "interesting". Not least...
Turning the BBP set is one reason. The other is not being able to get a path from the Down Brighton Fast at Pouparts Jn across the Up Brighton...
The first stage in the problem is that Victoria Eastern is blocked for engineering works. Without checking I don't know how far the block goes on...
Bad news I am afraid. There has been a serious fire at their storage depot near Andover,...
Coming back to this thread after a day or two, Big AL has picked up a very important point on running a mixed traffic railway. It's not the...
There will still be GWR services around Redhill and Gatwick plus freight services and Rail Head Treatment Trains. ( I know RHTT's seems to operate...
Agreed, I spent many months after starting in special traffic in 1987 planning overnight engineering works for sleeper re spacing. I think all the...
Yes that was the plan. 44871 & PO brake booked as 5Z31 14+45 Pengam Sdgs to St Philips Marsh depot ready for 25/11 Bristol TM - Chester & return....
A quick look at RTT shows two trains on the Up Fast and one on the Down Fast which would have conflicted with the movement of the LSL train from...
Probably pathing, the North London Line is not the place to try and add additional trains these days. Note how many railtours (and other...
What struck me was the the number of workings with steam haulage one way only. At a quick count, I think was 6 out of 16 trains. At least it is...
Definitely thought provoking. Sooner or later heritage railways and main line operations will have to take environmental considerations into...
No doubt the saloon 6708 is very exclusive but there is a nagging thought in the back of my mind. Can a 1970's BR mark 2 coach really be referred...
I don't think it's so much the engineers or designers but the political elements meddling or trying to score political points. Cheers, Neil
The excavations for the chalk sidings gave minimum clearance from the running lines and the chalk bank. It was a "needs must" exercise to stable...
Thanks. From the other reports looks like a troubled time for Route Control on Saturday getting any traffic operated. With the memories of...
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