• (Are there no cleaners, Passed cleaners or fireman on here)? Where’s Dave? Ex BR members tipped into 3 score years n 20! (80yrs plus) for steam? Maybe 70 odd now for diesel advent! Western Hymek or warship? Earth calling Aberdare Fishguard N Devon or Plymouth? Is anybody there? Maybe Armstrong Aldrin n Collins took all related Railway men to…

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    (Driver signalman problem)! Moving from shed, Or Yard, The signalman would adopt such strange postures! My driver being chairman of the Railway club was rather austere! In fact folk warned me of this on my appointment to him! You didn’t have to get on? But eight hours a day it was better if you did! The spot where the signalman would pass me…

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  • 44871 goes through with great gusto, Once paired with ex Bristol Galatea it is one of last 5s to enter the new station on its Plymouth run! Plenty of track spacing for 1840s Brunel 7ft broad gauge lines for the new Marsh Barton station! 4-81/2 from 1892? I chose this shot for the Galatea / St Philips connection. Think this sort on my Temple…

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  • New mosaics unveiled at London Underground station

    Transport for London (TfL) has unveiled new mosaics at St. James’s Park station as part of its Art on the Underground programme.

    • I’m surprised that it isn’t installed at Tate Modern museum or any museum in London that would have had those pictures. But it does look impressive.
    • Rail income growing slower than passenger numbers, report finds

      The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has released figures showing that train fare revenue rose more slowly that passenger journey numbers between April 2023 and March 2024, that government funding to the industry…

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      • This saga of passengers ticketing income declining, with shareholders dividends rising seems familiar to myself. Was it not George Hudson ?
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        Felixstowe to Tinsley GBRF passes Sleaford South Junction today, 28th November, just ahead of the Christmas White Rose to York, headed by ‘Braunton’ replacing ‘Britannia.’

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        Wolverhampton Steel Terminal to Boston Docks empties, and leaf train, pass through Heckington today, 27th November.

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