jonny777

The Ouse at Kings Lynn is tidal, so is mostly seawater.

Rather harsh, IMHO. And dreck is not a Fenland word.

Use heavy water. That will stay in one place

Complete b0ll0ccks. Try running any kind of service to a simple platform with a vast car park.

Why? How many minutes are needed between a half hourly passenger service?

I believe we are now in a right wing government, where only vast profiteering companies with dodgy connections to the establishment will get contracts. By dodgy connections - I mean handshakes.

Excellent. That is a wonderful shot.

Yes, and all that expense just to get from Long Ashton P&R to Cumberland Road 1 minute faster.

Sadly, 2 years on, the costs are said to have ballooned to £175million And this to upgrade a freight line, plus reinstate a short section of disused track. http://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/story/2017-03-09/fears-for-portishead-rail-line-as-it-triples-in-cost/

I was under the impression that the initial restoration in the 1960s (no NRM as we know it now) was merely cosmetic. It was 20 years later when it was restored to main line running condition, although its outings in the 1980s were few; and has not been used since IIRC.

That photo has added interest, as it also shows a 104 on a Peterborough service.

All manner of mixed stock could be found in most Grimsby fish trains, as a random search of various word combinations will show https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=grimsby+fish+train&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiomYzcwsfSAhVJJcAKHQpDC2oQ_AUICCgB&biw=1197&bih=675#imgrc=_ I believe the Birds Eye containers worked as a block.

Maybe you would like to produce the evidence which shows DfT civil servants are the best qualified to interfere in as many rail vehicle specifications as possible?

Thanks David. I have some of those Fairburn tanks underlined in my early 60s ABC; but most were Kirkby-In-Ashfield based. As I never remember visiting that location, I assumed I must have seen them at Midland but had no idea why. Now I have discovered the most likely reason. 53 years later, and another mystery is solved. One of the marvels of the internet. Thanks once again.

This thread illustrates just how the most (at first glance) mundane photo can contain a wealth of information. (Not saying these are mundane, but... you know)

A fascinating group of seemingly ex-LMS parcels vans behind what appears to be a Hawksworth coach of some description.

That is why I thought my guess would be wrong. Gas Works junction was at Branksome where the line from West station joins the line from Poole. In my theory, the train is on the sharp curve from West junction heading towards Central.

My guess (most likely wrong) would be Gas Works junction.

I think the original NE/SW HSTs were 2+7, so they would have had 5 TS, or strictly speaking 4TS and a TGS.

C4905 - Those were the days; class 306s on suburban services and Mk1 buffets on Norwich trains. Farmhouse Grill for me please.

Some lasted into 1982. I took this in January of that year. 43057 & 43175 GN&GE diversion 29th January 1982.

Wow! Now that is old fashioned proper customer service. My late father in law ran his own nursery business, and I used to help him out when visiting; and the local ladies were obsessing over our babies. One thing he told me was that if a customer asked for a dozen (say) tomato plants, I should make sure to give them 14; and that way he could almost guarantee they would return to buy more produce at a later date.

Although early 70s, this may be a similar trip - D1584 (87A/LE) at Margate on 4th November 1972

Oh boy! I would have blown a fuse if I had seen that. Even 47s were not that common at Ashford, so when I was returning with mother-in-law and her mother after visiting her father in the William Harvey in 1978; and on passing the stabling point I saw a 47 next to the usual 73s and 71s, I performed an emergency stop and three point turn on the bridge, then turned into the car park and got out to photograph what turned out to be WR 47142; they must have wondered what had come over me. Yes, your daughter/granddaughter has married a nut job. 47142 and 73109 Ashford 10th September 1978.