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The new bus station is built to the side of the leisure centre, where the car park used to be that was used for the exhibition. It means access to the hall is restricted, so nowhere for vans to unload. The new location for the bus station isn't great - it's tucked away from the town centre rather than right in the middle like before, though it's handy for the railway station. The change in road layout also caused massive tailbacks as traffic leaving Tesco's has to cross the path of buses entering the bus station.

I've got that one in the shed somewhere. Pretty good from what I remember. I'll dig it out next week and have a flick through.

I believe there are sensors before the tunnels to detect such things, but I don't know about inside the tunnels. The broken wheel seems to have occurred several kilometres inside the tunnel, hence why it's caused so much damage to one of the two "emergency stations" within the tunnel. Until at least January it appears 90 out of the 110 daily freights will be heading back through the other tunnel, but 20 are going to be diverted over the top, along with all the passenger services. Not quite the same as the good old days, but at least it's more than the hourly unit and occasional panoramic train that use the old route now.

It's gone to the North Norfolk, 76084's tender is very leaky apparently.

It appears to have gone to Carnforth. Sounds like someone is after a new toy rather than fitting CDL to their rolling stock!

I can't remember where I saw it but it does seem very appropriate! Just realised, I didn't actually reply to @john new so he may not have seen the message.

Update from another forum (UK Airshow Review). Space Karen has changed twitter.com into x.com, so that's the link that is generated and that the plugin tries to use. However, the plugin is only set up for twitter.com addresses, so they need to be changed. How, no idea! Manually possibly?

Is it bad form to copy one of your previous posts on the forum?! "2833 and 2834 were AU5 vehicles, converted from BCKs. The first class compartments have single berths in them, the second class compos had a set of bunk beds. The vestibule between the first class and the guards compo had the doors removed and plated over, and a shower installed. The middle toilet also has a CET tank underneath now, the end toilet is a store cupboard." Both still survive - 2833 at Carnforth and 2834 at the Dean Forest Railway. 2833 is an odd choice for Farish to do, when there were several other IC white-roofed BCKs. 21274 at Shildon for example.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/CrazyFunnyWeird/permalink/1752539855168348/?sfnsn=scwspmo&ref=share G-BOAD under the Brooklyn Bridge this week, while being moved for a makeover over the winter.

"I went to Poole on holiday" "In Dorset?" "Yes I can thoroughly recommend it"

Tut tut! 😂

https://westcoastrailways.co.uk/careers?fbclid=IwAR0f7_pb1-OnSWf0UvarxiV4Qm-rpVJ6qz28d3mdv9lvmMf1hlccOthTPwk

Sadly unlikely to happen in this country, unless you have £25k to become a shareholder (plus £300 a month towards running costs). $700 for a 50 minute flight in one at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum though.

Talking of which... I think he got the hang of it after the seventh or eighth bounce!

Yes, 32 year old aircraft so probably not worth the cost of repairs. It's been reported that it was a new co-pilot apparently and weather wasn't a factor.

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/hard-landing-buckles-767-fuselage/ Whoops! Other reports say interior panels were dislodged and daylight was actually visible through the top of the aircraft! 😳

They do, and they have enough volunteer stewards to man the doors. They don't on the Jacobite, as the only staff are the guard and a handful of catering staff (unless things have changed since I last went up there).

That was 45212 and support coach, they worked the Northern Belle on Saturday. Well, as far as Hellifield, where the Black 5 was failed with a hot tender axlebox. There's a real dearth of air braked locos available to WCRC at present, and as the 5s are sitting around at Fort William doing nothing, they used one down south. 34067 is the usual Northern Belle loco but that's out of action. 6201 won't see the light of day unless the owning group are willing to accept help. 6233 is out of action for most of this year, as is 35028. 60103 unavailable. Everything else air braked is part of the Locomotive Services group.

Eurotunnel has the advantage of a lot of space to park up a lot of vehicles, plus they're all going to one destination so it's easy to just fill up one train after another. Eurostar doesn't have that luxury at St Pancras, and passport control can only cope with 1500 passengers per hour rather than 2200 per hour before Brexit. Hence why they're down to two trains an hour rather than three, and missing out intermediate stations and reduced number of destinations. Another operator isn't going to be able to use St Pancras, so unless they pay a lot of money for Border Force at Stratford or Ebbsfleet then I can't see it happening.

It's due to the fact you now have to be a registered, logged in user of Twitter to be able to read tweets. Feeds will no longer show on websites. There isn't a workaround sadly. The sooner the chairman takes a one way trip in one of his rockets the better.

Hornby, well Rivarossi, do make an Italian 740 class 2-8-0. Quite why one would be in Greater Manchester is another matter though!

With the original oil lamps, they're appropriate up until the mid 30s at the latest. Later on they were fitted with electric lights of roughly the same size, but without the triangle on the front. In the 60s smaller, brass electric lights became the norm. They'll be ok with the two-tone brown (castano and Isabella) coaches and wagons labelled FS Italia. 851s were designed for local passenger work, so one of them with a couple of coaches and a van is appropriate. Later they became more used for shunting and station pilot work, but a few were still used for local passenger services until 1969. The last few were withdrawn in the early 70s. The 835s were purely shunting locos, used in yards and as station pilots. The last one (835.166) was still in use, as a depot pet at Falconara, until January 1984! Being solely shunting locos, Rivarossi's decision, both on the late 90s version and this modern one released a few years ago, not to include or even give provision for a front coupling is very bizarre!