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These things? Headcorn: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2956759 Plumstead if you want a fancy one: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1848738 video of someone making a model of one if you can use inspiration from that: https://oorail.co.uk/third-rail-substation-3d-printed-model-railways/ My own pic...

OK, thanks Richard. All yours!

I will see about packing/posting when I can next combine an exercise trip out with a visit to an open post office.

Available to anyone who wants it. I do not even ask for postage. Computers in Railway Management, edited by TKS Murthy, LS Lawrence and RE Rivier. Published jointly by Computational Mechanics Publications and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg in 1987. Condition as new, circa 16cm by 23.5cm, 224 page...

With the cut back in railway services to serve only the most necessary travel, I thought it would be good to record those bits of railway that have now lost all passenger services. If we can compile a reasonably comprehensive list I will put it in the RO. Unsurprisingly, many early casualties are ro...

Not Metrolink's fault at all, but it's not a great way to start a new service on a new route (Trafford Centre)!

I posted this on another forum but discussion wandered off into other things without answers. Maybe the good burghers of RCTS can help! Around the year 2000 saw the start of what was supposed to be a super-efficient rail-based Royal Mail distribution system known as Railnet. It served terminals at: ...

It is possible that this isn't a direct spoken quote but more a reflection of attitudes of the time. Most men higher up the social scale had an aversion to those at the bottom doing anything other than working.

https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/scotrail-first-train-operator-publish-real-time-train-data Didn't note the train number? Look it up on http://realtimetrains.co.uk/! Stock allocations are now shown for most ScotRail services (and GB Railfreight). (Note: no connection other than as a us...

You might want to add the date for future readers/searchers. Today (4 January) or earlier in the month?

Privatisation started well before train operation was hived-off in the mid-1990s. For example, BR's hovercraft services were divested in 1981 and Travellers Fare in 1988, the latter being sold to the management team eventually becoming today's SSP (that runs Upper Crust and other brands). One odd sa...