Titan

Whether I can do something better or not has absolutely no relevance or connection to whether someone else can do something better!

Um, yes it was...

The IET was not bad either!

Seeing as a Deltic can haul 16 mk1's from Kings Cross to Aberdeen on under 900 gallons I suspect your guesses are way out...

And how can you be certain that someone has not forgotten to take an oil lamp off?

I thought that was pretty much what they did under tops? 01-69 diesel locos - generally the higher the number the higher the power 70-79 DC Electric locos and Electro diesels 80-99 AC/dual voltage Electric locos 100-199 DMU 200-299 DEMU 300-399 AC/dual voltage EMU 400- 599? DC EMU Of course it has gone to pot a bit recently...

I had heard that it was a deliberate ploy by BR to ensure the scheme was completed.

You would have thought that they would have included a close coupling mechanism, do they have tension locks or something?

You could have life imprisonment and it would not make the slightest difference. Risk of actually getting caught is what changes people's behaviour.

I have seen them do 'on the move' changeovers, although I suspect it was not normal practice. On one occasion the driver pressed the 'pan up' button too soon and the rear pan of the train was lifting as it came out of the tunnel in to Farringdon! I swear it hit the contact wire about two feet after it began, on a bit that is not designed to have pans running on it... This was of course in the days before the remodeling. By the time it stopped at the platform it was already configured and running off the OLE.

Don't know what the fuss is about. Been done before! I like the 'on switch' gag... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM

In fact the Great Eastern stuff is known as 'GEFF' - Great Eastern Furrer & Frey. It is pretty much the same thing but includes components to attach to the original 1500V dc masts...

Just because everyone that sees her exclaims "Jesus Christ" does not make her the messiah.

Pictures? links? Like a stolen toilet - nothing to go on...

To be fair I think the sign is also referring to the sign in the background - and possibly others too...

Have you seen this thread? http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/60731-the-100-project-a-complete-layout-build-described-in-9-days/

It has to be remembered that it is not just the ability of a loco to lift a train up the bank without stalling that has to be considered, but also the time taken to ascend the bank. There may be a freight or even a passenger train that is capable of getting up unassisted, but if a shove from the banker means that it can ascend the bank 10mph faster it may avoid delaying following trains when traffic is busy.

If a man says something in the woods with no wife to hear him, is he still wrong?

Surely J C Backfills?

Perhaps there is a shortage of laptops in Wales?

Since 153's are also 75mph units he should have been driving at no more than 75mph anyway?

What about all the type 1's - they were intended as freight only, and there were hundreds of them!

There is also the benefit of increasing train frequency when pathing is difficult. I will take an example from the ECML. You can have 2x5 car leaving Kings Cross, which split at Doncaster. One goes to Leeds, the other to Newcastle. You get the extra capacity required on the crowded bit south of Doncaster, and increased frequency to Newcastle and Leeds, with the Kings Cross-Edinburgh being 9 car. I expect similar thinking would work well on the GWML, perhaps 2x5 car to Bristol Parkway, one set can then go to Wales and the other to the west country.

Nah, Landrover had already created them with as many rust traps as physically possible.

True. One of these would have put out the whole block in about five minutes: http://bangshift.com/bangshiftxl/mack-super-pumper-system-locomotive-engine-powered-pumper-extinguish-hell-often/ Around thirty tonnes of water per minute up to sixty stories high, and would sound awesome too!