The Pilotman

Raining in Crianlarich? How unusual 😆

A quick question for anyone familiar with the east end of this project. From next week I understand that a journey from Heathrow to London City airport will be possible in two ways: with a change of Elizabeth Line trains at Paddington and then onto the DLR at Woolwich, or another change at Liverpool Street and then the DLR from Stratford. Is that right? If so, in terms of service frequency and ease of connections at Woolwich and Stratford, which would be the best option?

The Crewe works test train (or locos on test on service trains) gives you an excuse to run some unusual locos too. How about a ScotRail 47/7 coupled to a Class 33…. Dave Sallery’s picture on Flickr

Loco hauled: Weymouth DMU: Penzance

Interesting to hear all these terms for wife. I’ll ask the Gruffalo which one she prefers.

I’m glad I’m not that bothered about accurate cant grills and bogie types; makes things a lot simpler and cheaper 😁 Very surprised to see 37116 in its one-off livery being produced. I’ll have to go for one of those having had a ride behind it during the Basingstoke Open Day in 1987.

Painted samples are in: http://www.revolutiontrains.com/a-different-class/

What this thread really needs is a couple of contributors who pick jokes to bits and suck all the joy out of it. Oh, hang on….

I asked a question about this video some time ago regarding the routing of the empties. The loco ran round at Guildford and the train then proceeded towards Woking. I can’t say why it didn’t run back via Reading; it would have simplified the shunting at North Camp somewhat. Running round a train at Reading that arrived from Wokingham and departed on the WR mainline towards London wouldn’t have been a problem. The only slight complication would have been that either the loco, whilst running round, or the whole train, would have had to run via Reading West Junction.

A few weeks ago I was waiting for a train at Tilehurst on one of my UK work visits and you could have knocked me down with a feather when I saw a green “Thameslink” unit approaching on the down relief. I was even more surprised to see it’s pantograph was down. Until then I’d paid no attention to this thread but it’s been interesting to read about the whole project.

59101 passing West Drayton early this afternoon on a short train of empties.

Many thanks for that. It’s a shame I didn’t see them; they sounded very good even though I was a good mile away from the railway line.

Does anybody know if there was a class 50 hauled train running in the Thames Valley today? I was out walking near Pangbourne this afternoon and I’m sure I heard one at around 3pm. I couldn’t find anything on a railtour listing website but it did sound very much like what I used to hear frequently back in the 1980s.

I think you may have inferred too much from the OP. He mentioned ferry wagons and backed it up with a photo of the model in question which are of the same type (albeit not the same livery) as those in the picture for which I provided the link. Whether that train is a “ferry working” or not is irrelevant; the OP didn’t ask about “ferry workings”. RTQ.

How about this then? Well in excess of 20 on this train: http://www.hondawanderer.com/47314_Harbury_1991.htm

Quite so. My father once passed on this sage advice to me after he got the Deep Heat rub and haemorrhoid cream mixed up.

Any chance of a Network SouthEast version?

Is that a split headcode 37 coming down the bank?

Given the disproportionately high number of grumpy old men that this hobby attracts, I’m amazed this thread is almost a week old but has only got to seven pages

But then the answer would have to be “an Amish drive-by catapulting” and that isn’t as funny.

Are you having a bubble?

Q. What goes “clip, clop, clip, clop, clip, clop, bang, clippetty-clop, clippetty-clop, clippetty-clop”? A. An Amish drive-by shooting

The longest ours has been AWOL is over a weekend. Our neighbour opened his garage door on a Monday morning to get his car out to drive to work and our cat shot out and legged it straight to our front door. She hasn’t been seen near his garage since…

From the caption on Flickr: “Grand National Day 30th of March 1968, Red Alligator won at 14-1 and D348 is on the 17.30 1L12 return service to Euston and D1736 is on the 1L17 17.40 to Coventry.”

Their website says expected delivery in April 2022. Does that sound familiar?