Ah… I don’t know anything about the author of the article…
Former RMT Union Rep and activist. It’s a story for later.
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The perfect commuter train - ALL the doors!
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Which will make a challenge if they do run mainline in terms of fitting CDL (central door locking). Agree though looks the business and nice bit of once common but now scarce train. Especially as it is in running condition.
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Oops
BBC News - Runaway Indian train travels 70km without driver
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Other news from the NE:
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Somewhere in my distant memory* I thought that had been turned into a gastro-pub.
*It isn’t very reliable but I’m recalling going in there in the '80s
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I was up there a few years ago & called in to have a brief look at Stockton railway station. Is that the site where the original line started? Presumably that & Darlington are the oldest stations?
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Sounds as though the original line terminated at Cottage Row, Stockton so not where the current station is.
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Heighington is the oldest station.
1827
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The station continued in railway use until the 1970s, when it became dilapidated. It was restored in 1984 and reopened as the Locomotion No 1 inn, but that closed in 2017.
From the Guardian article Stu @MonitorGold10 linked to. So seems you can trust your memory Paul.
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Same in Darlo - the original station site is now a railway museum quite separate from the main station, tho’ it is still a functioning branch line station as well.
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Three/five day tour of Scotland with the Branch Line Society.
Day one and five are the positioning runs from and to London.
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I saw that one yesterday too - think it might have been at Edinburgh station
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This curious little thing* showed-up in my Facebook feed -
Reported as being used in the construction Ipswich’s Underground Railway.
Googling this unexpected system, led me to a website dedicated to that very subject, which tells a colourful and relateable tale of an over-ambitious Tory government starting-but-never-finishing an expensive white-elephant transport system, which in this instance was bailed-out by no less than Joseph Stalin!
http://simonknott.co.uk/ipswichunderground.htm
A tale well worth telling!
Except -
Why anyone should dream-up such a spoof is anyone’s guess, but it had me going for a bit.
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SWR Class 455 in British Rail Livery: https://youtu.be/W1zF4s8UiOU
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In which a turd is polished.
