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Yeah RE the North Circular, the story i heard was that vandals released the brakes over night and the damage wasn't discovered until the morning.
I've seen a 442 in a similar situation though.

Oh one of their favourites tricks down here, is to stand in a field or somewhere close to the line, and fire air rifles at passing trains.

All sorts of wierd and wonderfull things end up no the railway tracks. Bikes, shopping trollies, animals of various shapes and forms, cars, bricks or concrete blocks is a favourite, metal bars and many more things. With the overheads, you're lucky because people realise whats happened, and trains no...

Well it basically agree's with what i wrote

I haven't got a scanner, but i can try to photograph it with my camera. Got to go out in a minute, do it when i come back

Apparently the SRA are going to start fining people for dirty trains, suddenly South Central and South Eastern decided to start cleaning their trains Rik, as units maintained at my depot were offically the most realible units on NR metals last year {102,000 MPC}, i await you're figures, which clearl...

I've got a picture of 1 class 31 sat on top of another class 31 in a road, after someone released the brakes on them when they were stood in a nearby yard

Well i find it petty really. One name pops into mind straight away, and i expect its on Vern's list aswell. All over a train simulator
Vern, from what i've seen of you're work, i've been very impressed

DanBB wrote:So basically just pick the nearest presevered railway to you.

I'm glad i'm not the only one who said that
Seriously though, the Mid Hants are very good. The guy who does it is strict, but strict in a way that you learn so much so easily.

East Kent railway, near Dover. Drive a Class 33 and do some shutning aswell as trips of the line. Feel the engine come to life as you open it up going through the tunnel near Shepherdswell.

as we have found out on the DMU i work on, its good to have two just incase one breaks, or is clogged with a big pile o' . its also probably to distinguish them from other transport aswell they also have the possibilty of having tunes played on them if you are immature Speaking from professinoal ex...

Well i wouldn't expect a sensible answer out of a Thameslink bloke, after all, most of their units have wheel flats so bad i sounds like you're actually riding behind a kettle on wheels, doing 16 beats to the bar {chimney wise}
Either way, they weren't stuck to the rails.

i think theyare there as a warning to other drivers like the horns on road traffic although they can be annoying to people near the railways no where else :-? Unless you're at stand, you're rarely hear another trains horn in you're cab, its even less likely with the newer stock, something to do wit...

I expect it might related to reporting door defects. You have to give, unit number, coach number, door letter.

Bombardier maintain last weeks plastic bottles, these are slam doors we're talking about. I'm told South Central managed a hat trick of failures in our area, when another train was dumped in the middle road at Havant, next to the skate move. This was reported as tripping the sub stations. Fratton an...