NicTheBeard

We suggested they could sell viewing tickets to watch the shunting operations, but they seemed to think it would be better to just close the whole site for a couple of days. Talk about missing opportunities!

We were delighted to see it on Friday. Also very pleased to discover that they are planning to move everything out later in the year and re-arrange the displays in a more sensible layout. Hopefully that means that APT-E can be put in the right order! We also noticed that each end only has one windscreen wiper - has the second one on PC1 been missing for a long time, or is that recent?

Snap! First visit to Crewe yesterday, mainly to see the APT-P, but had a great time also in the Exeter West signalbox watching the guys responding to tricky scenarios thrown at them by the railway simulator. In the last couple of years we've now been inside an APT-P, the prototype Deltic, and a Vulcan; and stood next to the APT-E (OK, one of those is an aeroplane not a train, but all great British engineering marvels!)