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How about the ability to use slip coaches? Slip coaches were very much used (particularly on the GWR routes) until about 1960. This would give another dimension: say you could be the guard on the slipped coach and it's up to you to ensure the coach arrives safely and stops in the correct place on th...

I'm darned sure there USED to be a Deltic cabview on this site - I distinclty remember downloading it about 9 months ago, but I can't find any in the filelist now. The only hope I can offer is if you buy Mark Shipman's Deltic Collection CD from this site (CD Ordering section) as there is a Deltic ca...

From this excellent web site of course!! From the main menu, go the CD ordering page listed on the left side of the page. You will need to login again and then simply scroll down to th SVR package. Be aware that there is another CD available for the SVR route besides the route itself: a CD called th...

Any part of the ECML (particulary Newcastle - Doncaster) will work for me. Where is the end of the Paddington - Birkenhead expresses? I don't quite understand your question, but here goes with an answer. I'm assuming you mean where does the line end now? It ends at Snow Hill in Birmingham as the tr...

Paddington to Birkenhead: i.e. a line that still exists today but no longer in its entirety (thank you VERY much ex. LMR senior management!!). This route has plenty going for it... numerous branch lines (3 at Princes Risborough alone), varied terrain, plenty of junctions with other lines (particular...

Hi David I use the UltWarship.snd for the BluePullman Kindest Regards Mike Then I would politely suggest you could be using the wrong sounds! Here's why: There are (AFAICT) no class 43s preserved - which had the MAN engines. There ARE, however, two class 42s preserved which had the Maybach MD650 en...

I know exactly what goes wrong with speed govenors, the drivers like thrashing loco's which nackers the governors up it was the reason the fifty fund pulled the plug on the cardiff valley services as 50031 failed 3 times in 4 weeks. Well it's a relief the generator didn't flash over. I must admit I...

Did i miss something, what happened, Why does this always happen. first it was Glasgows fault for D9000s engine fire now DPS 55019 has a Generator flashover. That's a darned shame! And it'll take an awful lot of pennies to fix too! It's such a pity that all these heritage diesel-electrics can't be ...

To drift off topic, Markw, I LOVE your graphic describing the AM4s.. how true, how very true! Many times when I was a boy I used to hear AM4s (and AM10s) clonking into Hampton-in-Arden station. And they add a whole new meaning to the expression "bone-shaker"! The only carriage that has worse supensi...

All should be fine... as long as your PC techie uses say Powerquest (well they're owned by Symantec now) Drive Copy or Drive Image or Norton Ghost which makes a complete image of the original hard drive partition & then you can either copy the whole drive/partition directly from the old to the new d...

Thanks Dave, Am eagerly awaiting the download to be available - in spite of the problems caused by MSTS's limitations, this is still a superb route.

Warnings duly noted!

GK

Good job the Victorians didn't think like us! If rail was invented now, do you think the government's line would be that "we shouldn't be investing in new fangled means of getting around, but in getting our existing infrastructure (ie. canals) up to scratch"? Of course, major canal projects such as...

Whilst I personally think the restoration is a bit chocolate box and doesn't sit well in an area of bold modern architecture, and the station itself is nothing to write home about being a fairly ordinary early 20th century Great Western standard small terminus, it has been done well and is needed t...

According to the latest edition of Rail, the SRA has slagged off the excellent restoration work done on this station which was funded by the Birmingham Alliance & Chiltern Railways. The SRA called it a "film set" and in the RUS document have ruled against allowing the restored Moor St station to be ...

Had this problem myself on our admin server. Turns out our ISP had not set a reverse DNS lookup entry for our domain. It was mainly AOL that discarded (you don't normally get a bounce message) our e-mails, but there were a couple of others as well. Apparently, AOL only accept e-mail from a server wh...