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  1. Mark Saunders
    I never saw anyone riding in a Shark to site and remember trains marshalled with a Shark inside the train brake van; also it was common to have a brake van at each end so as to facilitate a easy return to the the yard when locomotives were cascaded during the work!
  2. Mark Saunders
    Not every summer night was warm a fire to keep out the cold especially as some vans were rather draughty!
  3. Mark Saunders
    Are you aware the middle batch of these are all named?
  4. Mark Saunders
    Ask the indigenous Americans the same question!
  5. Mark Saunders
    and within ten years the noise reducing smooth asphalt will be covered by tar and chippings on the county council owned ones!
  6. Mark Saunders
    Currently all 185's most running as six car sets, there were test runs to Saltburn but not in service but that was about three years ago.
  7. Mark Saunders
    Locomotives were sold as seen and many went into scrap yards with coal. Bolckows at North Blyth was an example of this.
  8. Mark Saunders

    On Cats

    Mark Saunders replied to didcot's topic in Wheeltappers

    We rescued a standard Pooodle called Winnie but she was named Winnie the Poodle!
  9. Mark Saunders
    It doesn’t work anymore as far too many modern phones are able to have their position monitored remotely in case of loss of either phone or spouse!
  10. Mark Saunders
    Driver’s traction knowledge is a factor in booked locomotive swaps.
  11. Mark Saunders
    What I would really like to see is the no frills airline approach to costs, it shows the cost and then the add ons costs for variations to please objectors!
  12. Mark Saunders
    Two key ingredients missing:-
  13. Mark Saunders
    Nothing new its been the same since the initial building of the railways, the landed Gentry and NIMBYS.
  14. Mark Saunders
    Does anyone know how to join mazak as I would consider converting outers to inners and the remaining parts to singles!
  15. Mark Saunders
    The problem is the inners as there is a severe lack of them!
  16. Mark Saunders
    I wish they would ...
  17. Mark Saunders
    Nothing new the A1 upgrade north of Dishforth was cancelled and the property sold that had been purchased for all of it to be repurchased when it was eventually given approval!
  18. Mark Saunders
    Hard to believe the Shildon built Scunthorpe tipplers were seven years old and well work stained but are still in use today!
  19. Mark Saunders
    Never let the headlines of saving money today get in the way of spending even more tomorrow!
  20. Mark Saunders
    The job of a minister is to apply government policy and then blame others when it goes wrong!
  21. Mark Saunders
    Agree I must be thinking about one of the other resignalling scheme’s possibly Tees Yard or York!
  22. Mark Saunders
    Neutral is a term I would use for almost every transaction I make , I just can’t get excited about buying things! Positive seems excessive to me rather like many supermarket online surveys of which you can’t answer half the questions because you only bought what you needed!
  23. Mark Saunders
    The problem is ginger rhymes with whinger and is a gift to sloppy journalists!
  24. Mark Saunders
    Alas there is only one in this livery!
  25. Mark Saunders
    How about the authentic experience of sending them to the station entrance for a rail replacement bus!
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