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Diesel: none other than the class 43 HST Electric: class 91, for being the fastest electric loco in the uk! Steam: erm, don't know many but the mallard pretty much gets it for me, just because of the sheer speed aswell, amazing back in 1938 DMU: class 159 EMU: either the 375/377 electrostars for 'co...

exactly, thats just what i was saying lol

I'm not sure if it's all virgin's fault. usually, and especially at weekends, reservations don't open until 2 days before travel because the folk down at network rail don't let virgin know what engineering work they are planning. If this is the case then how can reservations be available for a train...

Kerr, my deepest sympathies go out to you and your family.

May Tamara lay peacefully in rest.

My thoughts are with you at this terrible time.

living in birmingham now, i often walk through new street station (as you do), and ive noticed of late (maybe the last 2 months or so) that there seem to be a lot less pendolinos being used for new street- euston or wolverhampton - euston services. although the electronic announcer person says "bla ...

I also heard that one CIG is to be painted in the same livery as the Electrostars. why would they want to do that?! surely if they are only going to be operational for one more year, they'd be better off spending the money for the paintjob on something else, such as sorting out the major problems t...

hmm, congested mainline and jam packed roads jam packed roads indeed! it gets really bad in the summer months in north devon, actually its bad all year... especailly in Barnstaple, which has one of the WORST traffic systems in the entire universe, and yep, you guessed it, it's yet another stupid se...

i think about 90% of the trackbed is still in-tact between South Molton and Taunton. A couple of years ago there was an article about re-opening the line between South Molton and Taunton, with either a shuttle service operating or possibly could've even seen HST's into South Molton! However, as with...

just driven ian fletcher's excellent blackpool nrth - man picc activity for nwe2 (could'nt quite keep to time though!), using fnw class 158 with jonathan powell's BRILLIANT recent class 158 sound set. dunno if anyone has tried this before, but when you leave from stationary with these sort of dmu's,...

will v2 of this route have scenery all the way from paddington-penzance?

yep, totally agree with you there thassos. there have been 3 what look like very good activities uploaded by birminghamnewstreet (Aaron Payne) in the last 2 days: "Early stock movement" "07.17 to carlisle" "04:33 to manchester" however, like thassos said, myself and probably lots more trainsimmers h...

just a quicky regarding this route, when it comes out on cd i presume programs needed for installation such as ukfs, newroads and tsection.dat will be included on the cd?

thanks... really looking forward to this btw, congratulations to all those involved!

thanks dorlan!

anyone know anything about this event being held (i think!) in Stafford this sunday? didnt catch where abouts it was in stafford....

Silverlink are likely to take the Northampton-Wolverhampton Trains I read in a silverlink leaflet the other day that they are only going as far north as northampton, and that the Northampton-Wolverhampton service will be taken over by central trains? Also, who out of silverlink and central is getti...