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I'm thinking, when it comes to preserving loco 's, what about space? Big old things loco's and the steam fans seam to think there are too many preserved lines and they are financial hurting each other. Is there room for more?

I wonder if all of the heated folk on here would be happy if the railways took the same attitude as is shown on the roads? Here nobody takes responsibility for any of the deaths and injuries. Maybe the railways should say that if a train is held for longer than, say 20 minutes, then the doors will be opened. Any person who steps outside of the door is no longer the responsibility of the railway or any of its' employees! You are responsible for any eventuality, not us. I've always found that people who are annoyed by any health and safety rules soon change their attitude if the accident involves themselves!

Your modelling is excellent! Really like the Austin AC. Will be watching this !

Some excellent info here, thanks to all! Can I take it that the class 68 is no use as a replacement?

Hi, I've fitted NCE decoders in Athearn blue box locks (hard wired) and I really like them. Paul

Arr, all good army chaps! I suppose the bloke at the back was in the artillery!!

Great info folks, thank you all. Is it true that c roaches really rule the world? And what whiskey, tango foxtrot happened to that word?

Very interesting. Surely the fact that drivers like them is a bad thing these day?

What is so special about the class 37 that keep going ? Any ideas about what could replace them, nothing lasts forever!

Would all please note. All health and safety rules place the responsibility on the individual at the point of their control. So someone gets off the train when they shouldn't and gets hurt, the driver would have to explain why he/ she didn't stop that person. That is the LAW! Sorry Bernard but there is no comparison between a war situation and normal life. Whatever you did in the Atlantic, thank you. Paul

There seems to be an answer. Apparently some company called NASA, makes some suits that could be the commuters dream!

Faith is what you have when there is no proof of something happening

Well yes, the painting could have been worse! The real point is that it could hardly have been any better! Five star modelling chap, love it.

Well done Jim, and all of the other hardy folk out there with you. Great job!

Oh, rest assured as soon as one or more people are killed there will be "lessons to be learned". As for angry posters on this thread, we are talking about people's lives, surely this should be a passionate topic?

Sensible footwear? I presume you mean high heels or leather soled shoes, because that is probably what most were wearing. I watched a woman trying to walk in snow yesterday in "killer heels". Never was an item of clothing better named.There were people trapped in their car near Cardiff, in a seventeen foot snow drift. One of them was wearing pyjamas! Contrary to what a lot of people think, rules were developed for the safety of passengers not to inconvenience them.

Serious question. Do we have anyone competent running the railway? DOO, autonomous commuter trains, no toilets. Just think how easy it will be for thugs and how bloody awful for passengers, sorry I mean customers! If you are on one of these trains for goodness sake do not take sick!

I wonder what the people who agree with this action would be saying if one or more had been electrocuted?

There are several Premier Inn hotels in Edinburgh, prices between £65 and £100. Bar prices aren't bad either! I never use a mini bar if there is a big one close.....

OK, so one can fly from London to Edinburgh for £30 each way. Fly up the evening before and stay in a hotel, next morning take a train to wherever your choice of destination. My questions are, what is the point of the sleeper trains, and why should I or any other taxpayer pay for someone else to use them?

It is too easy to look at the problems on our passenger railway and think it is only happening here. It is not, the USA struggles to keep Amtrak running because of costs. Other countries passenger transport is subsidised, or of a poor standard. I really do not like nationalised industries, but the cost of equipment and the running costs are enormous. Franchising is obviously not working, if enough people want fast, luxury transport then the bullet has to be bitten. If nationalisation could only be done without involving politicians. Any and all politicians!

We could solve a lot of these problems if instead of just banning people over 65 from voting, as suggested by the idiot Paxman, we simply euthanase everybody over 65. Er, ang a mo......

That is ok if: A - one can afford Sainsburies. B - one doe not need to shop for bargains. Sainsburies shoppers look away now

Getting on a bus with six bags of shopping can not be called convenient. From an out of town supermarket to an outlaying village? The individual transport system (car) is here to stay. Maybe the size of such vehicles should be addressed as in Tokyo. I mean some people think my Humvee is too big, as if!

Thank you folks, I know about RMS but I read that somebody had bought Devon and Cornwall railway contracts. Not to worry, I think the info of yoy two guys in great, again thank you.