Been wondering about this for a while – that prang in the North prompted me to post this…
I don’t drive so tend to use trains a fair bit for getting around to more distant places.
Since privatisation the train companies have spent loads on new branding and painting trains etc but stations don’t really look like they have changed much since 20 years ago or so…
sometimes the cables for the electric trains round here malfunction and the newspapers said it was all the original 1940s kit (mind you the same is true for the leccy in the villages as well) – and there has been little investment since privatisation…
After NYE I was walking back to a friends house and we went past the main railway line – I saw this signal that looked like it would be more suited for the “Harry Potter Train” (I don’t know the correct name for it but its one of those you see in old movies with an arm that goes up and down)
Its 2007 FFS – is all this stuff actually still in use?
