Recent content by fen_tiger

Hello everyone Here to remind you all that it is important to back up downloaded content (from the DLS), your routes and sessions that you have been working on. The reason I mention this is, my own Zoostorm PC somehow ended up with nasty Malware from an unknown source elsewhere on the internet...

Hello everyone :) I've been out and about yesterday visiting the town of March, Cambs, with intention of getting a number of atmospheric winter / low sunlight photos of the railway station. It wasn't easy though, in the cold weather, as the camera batteries had to be constantly rotated with...

The Two Ronnies - 'The Little Trains Of Wales' (Series 10, Episode 3 of 6) *This is the musical finale of the Two Ronnies 1983 Christmas Special - originally broadcast on BBC One at 7:15pm, December 25th 1983

Switzerland Zurich: Injuries as trains collide in Rafz (20/02/2015) News source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31547979 A rush-hour intercity train has collided with a suburban train in the Zurich area of Switzerland, injuring at least five people, police say. The trains...

Network Rail / BBC Top Gear level crossing safety message - Series 9 / Episode 5 (Originally broadcast on BBC Two 25th February 2007) In this episode, broadcast on BBC Two, on 25th February 2007, Clarkson did a public service video about Level Crossings. The segment was criticised due to the...

A group of 5 people travel at speed down an abandoned railway line from Cisneros to Anolaima in Colombia. Transportation is just a platform with wheels and a brake - no engine, just gravity. A drop of over 2500 feet in 14 miles through a tunnel. The fastest stretch is at the end. Andy.

Time to crank up your speakers with Britain's finest ever Diesel Locomotive; the glorious BR Class 37 seen working passenger trips along preserved heritage railway lines on main-line Network Rail metals.

North-east Cambs MP Steven Barclay is pushing for the full re-opening of the former March to Wisbech rail line. The reopening scheme The 7.8 miles of railway from March to Wisbech closed to passenger services in 1968 and to freight in 2000. Reopening the line would connect the 30,000 people...

Post your railway videos, featuring railways in the winter snow, here: Compilation video of trains and railways in the snow during the UK's five month long big freezing winter of 1962/1963. Check out the groovy music of the 1960s!

May I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here is my new addition to my slowly growing model railway collection - Hornby's (R1179) limited edition OO gauge train-set available just for Christmas 2014. UK RRP is £69.99 but I got it at a sale price of just £49.99 at Beales...

I'm still around and still active sometimes on my Trainz account, but what with now having a very busy and hectic life away from the computer, I cannot find enough time each day to run Trainz 12. If some of you remember my previous forum thread all about my work recreating the former through...

My own photographs taken during a hot, sunny July Saturday afternoon around part of the busy Ely - Peterborough main line running through the town of March, Cambridgeshire. (1) March Station - Looking west towards Peterborough and the East Curve Junction trailing from the main line towards...

Hello everyone :) Whilst visiting my local library earlier this week I happened across the book 'Branch Lines Around March' (published by Middleton Press) they have as library stock. I managed to run off a few photocopies of March station, March yards and Wisbech Station from that book I...

Just something I knocked up in 12 hours work spread over five days this week. My March Station based upon the prototype in Cambridgeshire, UK, as it was in real life back in 1985 before extensive track lifting was carried out by British Rail. The station lamps I'm using were cloned twice from...

BR Class 04 Blue with re-scripted headlamps and tail lamps now using class lights corona white and class lights corona red assets - Andy.