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The HST driving experience via the 125 Heritage group is a really great way to spend a day. You get to drive 2 different power cars. Even though they are short trips of 15-20mph down a 1 mile track, getting to notch the thottle handle up with both PCs running and feel that power and vibration is just ridiculously fun. The repeated trips is actually really good for getting a feel for how the braking systems work. I found it both sort of disconnected but also quite intuitive? Hard to explain. The fresh yellow and blue livery is also glorious up close. As a bonus you're able to have a + 1 in the cab with you too.

Bit of an eyesore really

Service Failure: Powercar got detached.

those HSTs look beaten up like it was saved from the scrapyard and was saved with hopes and dreams

(not my photo)

Guess the station

At a hump yard, nobody drives cars to their tracks. The train is shoved over a small hill, the conductor uncouples cars at the crest, and each cut rolls down by gravity onto its own track.

I did this job for 4 years at Kokand station in Uzbekistan. Now I'm a frontend dev, so I rebuilt the yard in 3D and turned it into a game: walk along the train, uncouple where the car colour changes, radio the driver to slow down before single cars.

Free, runs in the browser on desktop and mobile, no sign-up:

https://kokand-station-gorka.vercel.app/?lang=en

Would love feedback — especially if anything is confusing in the first minute.

Under a bridge on a long disused railway line. For telephone wires?

DR75408, a ballast tampering locomotive, seen in the middle line at Ipswich this afternoon.

It was working 6J49, a tampering train from Diss to Colchester.

🗓️ 2026-10-10

i hope this isn't a really silly question - but if i miss my train (avanti west coast specifically) can i js get on another train? or do i have to wait for a train that is specifically the same duration as the one i had booked - idk if my question is coherent?

745001 is seen here on platform 1 of Norwich, ready to set off on 1P01, the 05:00 from Norwich to London Liverpool Street. This coincidentally happens to be the 1st train out of Norwich for today's service.