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I suppose the same could be said of Rugby which has also undergone major remodelling recently to allow 125mph running for through trains. Not seen the Rugby changes yet myself but would be interesting to see how they achieved this

dkightley wrote:Now here's something a bit more down to earth.....and achievable!!

http://www.parrypeoplemovers.com/commun ... nsport.htm

Does anyone know if the Class 139 is being used on the Stourbridge Branch Line yet?

I don't see why they can't extend the Clifton branch past East Midlands Parkway and to East Midlands Airport. Then they could do away with the bus that goes between Parkway and the Airport and have a dedicated link

Hmmm, what day is it tomorrow?

thenudehamster wrote:The only way the overall size might slow things down is if your hard disk is becoming seriously full or seriously fragmented.

Or if your hard disk is developing a fault causing I/O issues?

I don't know if they do Saturday workings but from what I know they are mainly used to supplement peak time services on the Walsall Line during weekday operations.

If the limited information on Wikipedia is to be believed, it would concur about the boiler removals:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_44

Have you checked out the program "Railway Walks" presented by Julia Bradbury (Watchdog)? It is also available on BBC iPlayer so you can watch again.

That's a shame. I have a soft spot for Shunters - my first Hornby model when I was a kid was an 08 and 25 years later I still have it

Thanks for the reply

Hello folks

I saw Shunter 08890 on the back of a low loader this morning travelling North East on the A42. Just wondered whether anyone knew where it had come from and where it is going?

Thanks

XPTE wrote:I thought Arriva Cross Country were using HST's on some of their services from the December 2008 timetable. I can't say I've seen any about so far.

I was sitting in Volkswagen Birmingham last Thursday morning and saw an XC HST go into Birmingham New Street

JSReeves86 wrote:I remember seeing this video at Dungeness back when you were allowed to visit both power stations on the site.

Look at 2:29, now we know what Andy from Little Britain used to do before Lou came along

"Yeah I know!"

Don't know if the information in the link below will be of any use to anyone?

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/ ... cket-deals

Going on from what Lad said, if it is Vista in addition to running MSTS in Administrator mode you may also have to upgrade your nVidia drivers to the latest version as the nVidia drivers that usually come with prebuilt PCs are buggy and cause issues (whether they are drivers made by Microsoft or nVi...

Lad491 wrote:Isnt that what the route registry is for. Take a look and see, I think it will have what you want.

The Route Registry has a good map of the Cannock Chase route but does not have anything on Thames Mersey which is the one I was looking for detail on.