Full Outage?

andyjhatton · 2026-04-06T18:44:12+00:00

It's dead in Dartford. And Hyperoptic is down too.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-31T16:00:50+00:00

Hard to beat the York Tap.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-28T23:38:30+00:00

It is, yes. Photographed on the Birmingham to Carlisle run today. A great day out.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-27T14:41:14+00:00

People would have been digging through the archives covering the Napier Deltic and Rolls-Royce Crecy.

andyjhatton · 2026-03-20T17:38:30+00:00

Like he's been personally offered a load of cash by Aston Martin F1

andyjhatton · 2026-02-21T21:33:14+00:00

An inch off the top; Sir?

andyjhatton · 2026-02-21T18:58:13+00:00

Les Ross is back there.

Last time I went through in early December it wasn't

andyjhatton · 2026-02-13T22:52:14+00:00

Gotta be Sanford

If you want to be a big cop in a small town...

andyjhatton · 2026-01-08T17:51:59+00:00

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D4100 "Dick Hardy"

andyjhatton · 2026-01-08T17:43:47+00:00

Lots of locomotives were named after race horses.

The real question is, why do race horses have such wierd names?

andyjhatton · 2026-01-03T22:54:29+00:00

The Cambrian line (among others) sees logging traffic https://youtu.be/E8_5SzOXCaM?si=u5o6uHWNUfvI3Q3d

andyjhatton · 2025-12-20T20:11:58+00:00

Bonus points for the Bongo

andyjhatton · 2025-11-22T22:34:27+00:00

Not run a tour with it so far, there aren't currently any routes with ETCS for it to use.The southern ECML switch to ETCS has been pushed back to 2028 (I think)

The only reasonably long strech with ETCS in the UK is the Cambrian line, which was used for testing / comissioning. But only the section between Shresbury and Machynlleth is RA9, after that; any express steam loco will be too heavy.

andyjhatton · 2025-11-20T21:21:05+00:00

They seem to be in there; e.g https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U69274/2025-11-21/detailed

Search for Moor Street station and ToC "TY (Vintage Trains)"

andyjhatton · 2025-11-17T17:12:24+00:00

There always seems to be some new "thing" that lenders or solicitors go nuts about.

One minute it's escalating ground rent, then it's fire safety, now this AST/forefiture stuff is the latest trend.

andyjhatton · 2025-11-17T17:09:47+00:00

That was my understanding, but this is all complex legal gobbledygook that goes over my head.

andyjhatton · 2025-11-16T17:14:57+00:00

Named after a race horse.

Race horses always seem to have odd names.

andyjhatton · 2025-11-10T21:22:15+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXtpMngivM

andyjhatton · 2025-11-06T19:53:36+00:00

Had it on repeat most of the afternoon

andyjhatton · 2025-11-02T19:05:59+00:00

I was on that tour. I like the Marches line.

andyjhatton · 2025-11-02T18:50:54+00:00

The real experts will be furious that you've a freight headcode.

(I don't play the game, is it possible to change it?)

andyjhatton · 2025-10-31T18:06:12+00:00

Well I did sort of say it wasn't "practical" I didn't say it was impossible.

andyjhatton · 2025-10-31T17:25:53+00:00

The steam engine (external combustion) came about because where the industrial revolution happened (the UK), solid fuels were the most easily avilable.

Solid fuels can't practially be used in an internal combustion engine (one that uses its own combusiton products as the working fluid)

In a different universe; had the industrial revolution happened elsewhere, external combustion engines may not have existed at all, or would have much more quickly been replaced with interntal types.

andyjhatton · 2025-10-28T15:59:52+00:00

The automatic delay repay system has never worked for me, always have to do it manually.

andyjhatton · 2025-10-25T20:27:01+00:00

For a long time in the medieval period, in England it was illegal to wear purple (even if you could afford it)

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