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...or trying to leave the motorway when convoys of lorries in the nearside lane are restricting safe access to the exit slip.

Given that that's only 16 months away, 18 refurbished 442....from December 2018, it'll be mighty impressive if it can done in that time.

Raikkonen agrees contract extension with Ferrari; http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/41012314

In the words of The Who; Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

A lazy Saturday afternoon today along the tow path of the Leeds Liverpool canal at Bingley... ...and a short walk from Bingley Five Rise Locks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingley_Five_Rise_Locks

I love that. I must remember it when a suitable opportunity arises with Mrs 4630.

Just Muppets in charge of the overall project, perhaps?

01.59 on Sunday morning.

News Release 18th August from Stagecoach paying tribute to South West Trains employees. http://www.stagecoach.com/media/news-releases/2017/2017-08-18.aspx

Reformed 4-Rep 1904 at New Milton c.1988

But it isn't a complete three week shut down is it.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. Are you suggesting that the work at Waterloo should have been done on a protracted basis a la London Bridge, where the travel inconvenience endured by passengers has extended over several years? Or perhaps you meant that the work at Waterloo didn't need doing at all? From what I've seen and experienced first hand on my frequent visits to and journeys through Waterloo over many years, it's a piece of work that is long overdue and 3 weeks of inconvenience is a pretty small price to pay. The timing of the work has been well known and publicised widely for the best part of the past year. The planning by both SWT and Network Rail, from what I've seen and experienced, has been pretty well done on the whole. The only questionable aspect of all this has nothing to do with SWT or Network Rail, but rather the micro-managers clowns at DaFT who insisted that the franchise change takes place smack bang in the middle of the work. That piece of planning is priceless.

66708 'Jayne' on 15th August 2017 passing Ravensthorpe with the rarity of a loaded coal train destined for a power station. 6M17, 09.11 Redcar Bulk Terminal to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station, Warrington. Apparently this is a trial working in the schedule this week MTuWThFO. http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R00663/2017/08/15/advanced Edited to add the working is also now scheduled for Th this week.

Train set view, London Bridge 12th August 2017.

A Southwest Trains 455/456 combo at London Waterloo, in the company of some yellow Network Rail wagons on 12th August 2017.

158742 slows for a stop at Barnetby on 30th March 2004.

And not only is it a short distance between the two, it's also a steep gradient. Around 1 in 37 I believe. 319443 stationary on the incline. It had 'sat down' between City Thameslink and Blackfriars and was about to work back north.

Well the 'engineers' at the DafT did try to suspend the laws of physics during the development of the IEP. Presumably this is another example. Either that or they've found a way to permanently de-forest the areas around railway lines. Agent Orange, anyone? Younger readers may need to Google that one. As you say, it will be interesting - and probably amusing too, especially the marketing spin.

I really hope that that's a replica number plate on the cab side of the T3. Either way, I hope that the Swanage Railway has effective measures to keep thieves and vandals away.

ex-BR 30096 (ex-LSWR No. 96 Normandy) ended up at PD Fuels (Corralls) Ltd in Southampton where it was renamed Corrall Queen.

London Underground Sleet Locomotive ESL 107

...and it's all the fault of the EU bureaucrats in Brussels!

This number sequence has produced a few gems and more variety too. How about carrying on until we reach 200 and see what the view is then?

I had 950001 ready if you bottled it.

ADB965230 at Carlisle Kingmoor on the DRS Open Day, 18th July 2015.