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Lincoln had two A4s on one saturday last year. They also had a GWR kettle the come through the week before.

I took some footage of the Christmas Market Special trains at Lincoln on the 5th Dec. Unfortunately due to work commitments I didn't have time to edit and upload the footage I took until yesterday. Traction included - FL 66, EWS & Royal liveried 67s, WCRC 47s and a Bullied Pacific. Uploaded onto You...

Nice to see loco haulage making a return. The only thing I really can't understand is why, if this is going to be a long term arrangement, haven't ATW invested in a DVT or DBSO. Dragging a dead loco around all the time must result in a lot of wasted energy and track wear. Is the ATW arrangement set ...

For those of you considering attending this event, it is well worth the effort and £11 entrance fee. I went on Sunday and had a brilliant time. The weather was also quite nice which was an added bonus. There were plenty of visiting steam and diesel locos assembled in the south yard, and seeing Olive...

Having heard on the grapevine that the NRM are putting on a special event to commemorate 40 years having passed since the end of steam, I was rather disappointed that they'd dumbed down the name of the event to "1968 and all that". To the average rail enthusiast, 1968 will ring true as being the yea...

I doubt Cotswold will scrap any of its' 47/7s as they are equipped with ETH - a valuable comodity in todays day and age. The only reason 47200 will have been scrapped is because it doesn't have ETH, which renders it pretty much a freight only loco. As Cotswold have recently taken on some non-ETH fre...

I've been wondering whether we might end up with a Eurosprinter/Euro-Runner derivative HST replacement myself. It would make very good sense - especially factoring into account that the locos seem to be performing very well on passenger services for DB. Siemens are on the pre-qualified list of suppl...

Although I'm a fan of locomotive hauled trains, I'd be satisfied if the trains I travelled on had sufficient seats, weren't cramped, and weren't noisy inside. I travel between Newark and Lincoln on a daily basis, and the train is invariably a 15x DMU. The seating layout is cramped, there is insuffic...

Anyone thinking of buying a new Graphics card should check out reviews of different chipsets and their performance, This is a good start http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/vga-charts/warhammer-mark-of-chaos-v1-6,273.html# It is important not to base your judgement of a card based purely on the amo...

Yes, they have been out and are owned/leased by Cargo-D.

See below - passing through Lincoln Central.

http://www.jonhewes.fotopic.net/c1287532.html

I went on the Scarborough Spa Express on Tuesday July 24th. It started out as a nice day, however the weather soon deteriorated.

Lighting conditions were a bit of a nightmare, please see below for my attempts.

http://www.jonhewes.fotopic.net/c1337164.html

MTUs - Making trains ugly MTUs are killers Cheers Bruce I know/hope you are probably joking, but I see this kind of rhetoric on a lot of railway forums from a large number of users. MTU power units may not be deemed to be as entertaining to listen to as their predecessors, however the user of them ...

I look forward to seeing further pics of your layout. For my own reference to help with my soon-to-be-started layout, do you have any good web links where I can at least gain a basic grasp of what to do with scenery etc.

I'm also pretty impressed with the layout table, did you build this yourself?

Seeing the progress you have made on your layout is absolutely inspirational. I have an assortment of N Gauge rolling stock, which I am itching to build a layout for. I'm not sure I'll be able to build anything up to the standards you have, but I aim to build a layout on a 6' x 3' baseboard so I can...

Hi there,

Looking at purchasing an N Gauge HST Set in Intercity Swallow Livery. I was wondering if anyone could let me know the how a HST Set was configured back in the Intercity Swallow era - eg which coaches went where.

Thanks in advance,

Jon