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AdamH wrote: ↑

13:25 Wednesday 7th March 2018

Bloody Hell, that's not good. Hope everyone got out safely.

(they didn't buy it from Diamond by chance? )

Just unlucky I suppose but they had one burnt out on the M5 a few years ago carrying the Worcester Warriors rugby team.

A few years back I worked for a trade union representing among many others, engineers at Travel West Midlands, as it then was. The Company decided to do some restructuring which involved the redundancy of some of the engineers. As a group, they were reluctant to take any sort of action so all we cou...

Thought I'd just report that the Settle and Carlisle Charter train went well on Saturday despite not much snow - just a dusting on the higher peaks. But the 75 miles or so trip on the S&C is always worthwhile, whatever the weather. The two DRS Class 37's, 37259 and 37069, despite their shabby ap...

Nice photos of an interesting fleet, Tim. I hadn't realised that DRM also incorporated amber roof lights - a bit more stylish with DRM incorporated than in the days of Bill Morris. You could be right about the reason although I don't think there was one at the rear which would have made it more usef...

Speak of the Devil... Just bumped into David in Ledbury and we had a brief chat. No, I didn’t ask how old he is! He asked how well our contracts are doing and I know he was upset about loosing the 672 etc so my reply only mentioned the ex-Aston’s work. Do you know he has a 1-Bus outstation in Ledbu...

Thanks for the super pictures. I don't ever recall seeing one in the Worcester area in their heyday. The Brits, although BR Standard locos, were something special with several working on the Eastern Region. I remember once spending an afternoon at Liverpool Street, I suppose around 1960, and "c...

Thanks, Adam - pretty much confirms my recollection.

In Malvern, growing up in the early 1950's I had an almost daily experience as to why, because we lived on the Howsell crossroads in Malvern Link which was then the terminus of the hourly M12 Great Malvern to Belmont service... Walked into the Commercial Office in Padmore Street depot tonight to fi...

There has been some correspondence in the excellent Classic Bus magazine about why some conductors in times gone by carried whistles. I have contributed the following but in case it's not printed, I thought it might be of some interest to Forum users to hear how the 'friendly' Midland Red sometimes ...

Thanks for the first hand report, Tim. It doesn't sound as the new trains are particularly exciting from a passenger's point of view. I just don't understand why seating on trains (and buses too for that matter) can't be made more comfortable. I understand that they need to be hard wearing and durab...