It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
I'm tempted to go for a ride sometime on Saturday!
Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering
passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >> Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
I'm tempted to go for a ride sometime on Saturday!
Initially it?ll be running on Saturdays only
<https://news.gwr.com/news/great-western-railway-to-introduce-record-bre >aking-battery-train-into-passenger-service>
In message <10lh9ro$1qn1c$1@dont-email.me>, at 03:51:20 on Fri, 30 Jan
2026, Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> remarked:
Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering
passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >>> Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
I'm tempted to go for a ride sometime on Saturday!
Initially it?ll be running on Saturdays only
<https://news.gwr.com/news/great-western-railway-to-introduce-record-bre
aking-battery-train-into-passenger-service>
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again
turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
As for records, I have a reasonable collection of 78's, and two wind-up gramophones to play them on. Last year, sadly one got broken.
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <10lh9ro$1qn1c$1@dont-email.me>, at 03:51:20 on Fri, 30 Jan
2026, Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> remarked:
Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering >>>> passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >>>> Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
I'm tempted to go for a ride sometime on Saturday!
Initially it?ll be running on Saturdays only
<https://news.gwr.com/news/great-western-railway-to-introduce-record-bre >>> aking-battery-train-into-passenger-service>
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again
turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
As for records, I have a reasonable collection of 78's, and two wind-up
gramophones to play them on. Last year, sadly one got broken.
Just can?t get the shellac since the war.
Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering
passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >> Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
I'm tempted to go for a ride sometime on Saturday!
Initially it?ll be running on Saturdays only?
<https://news.gwr.com/news/great-western-railway-to-introduce-record-breaking-battery-train-into-passenger-service>
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <10lh9ro$1qn1c$1@dont-email.me>, at 03:51:20 on Fri, 30 Jan
2026, Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> remarked:
Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering >>>> passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >>>> Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
I'm tempted to go for a ride sometime on Saturday!
Initially it?ll be running on Saturdays only
<https://news.gwr.com/news/great-western-railway-to-introduce-record-bre >>> aking-battery-train-into-passenger-service>
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again
turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
As for records, I have a reasonable collection of 78's, and two wind-up
gramophones to play them on. Last year, sadly one got broken.
Just can?t get the shellac since the war.
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering >passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:05:01 -0000 (UTC), Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering >passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
Completely going off on a tangent here, but please, when sharing links to ex-Twitter, use a twitter.com URL, eg https://twitter.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915
At the moment, a twitter.com URL will redirect to the equivalent x.com URL, so you'll still see the intended content. But one day, Twitter and Elon Musk will part company and he'll take the x.com domain with him (as he owns
that). Which will mean that all links to a Twitter post using x.com will immediately fail.
In message <10lh9ro$1qn1c$1@dont-email.me>, at 03:51:20 on Fri, 30 Jan
2026, Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> remarked:
Anna Noyd-Dryver <anna@noyd-dryver.com> wrote:
It would appear that gWr's Class 230 battery train is finally entering
passenger service this Saturday 31st January, beginning with the 0530 West >>> Ealing to Greenford.
<https://x.com/philatrail/status/2016874613708402915>
I'm tempted to go for a ride sometime on Saturday!
Initially it?ll be running on Saturdays only
<https://news.gwr.com/news/great-western-railway-to-introduce-record-bre
aking-battery-train-into-passenger-service>
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again
turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again
turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat, 31 Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again
turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16 today)
as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat, 31 Jan
2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again
turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16 today)
as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Yes, of course the Denton service is indeed a parly, but what has that got
to do with the subject of *this* thread?
In message <cglfR.26064$BJ84.12353@fx17.ams1>, at 10:59:20 on Sat, 31
Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat, 31 Jan >>> 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to >>>>> ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again >>>>> turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16 today) >>> as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Yes, of course the Denton service is indeed a parly, but what has that got >> to do with the subject of *this* thread?
Threads drift.
In this case only slightly, as both trains are
Saturdays-only. And are also likely to be mainly patronised by bashers.
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <cglfR.26064$BJ84.12353@fx17.ams1>, at 10:59:20 on Sat, 31
Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat, 31 Jan >>>> 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to >>>>>> ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again >>>>>> turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16 today) >>>> as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Yes, of course the Denton service is indeed a parly, but what has that got >>> to do with the subject of *this* thread?
Threads drift.
In this case, immediately. You immediately used a thread on a completely different subject to inject yet another, irrelevant personal anecdote.
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <cglfR.26064$BJ84.12353@fx17.ams1>, at 10:59:20 on Sat, 31
Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat, 31 Jan >>>> 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to >>>>>> ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again >>>>>> turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16 today) >>>> as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Yes, of course the Denton service is indeed a parly, but what has that got >>> to do with the subject of *this* thread?
Threads drift.
In this case, immediately. You immediately used a thread on a completely >different subject to inject yet another, irrelevant personal anecdote.
In this case only slightly, as both trains are
Saturdays-only. And are also likely to be mainly patronised by bashers.
The Greenford branch train isn?t the single, weekly service that would make >it into a parly.
It?s an all-day service, six days a week. It just has a
change of traction one day a week, preparatory to the ?new? (actually, much >older, but hardly a vintage) train taking over every day. And that ?new? >train is of a type similar to ones already running in two other locations, >and which operated for decades all day, every day, from the next station >along the line. So it?s neither a rare service nor a rare train type.
It?s also not as if the ?new? train hasn?t been seen on the
line before:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/recliner/albums/72177720315304085/
Threads drift.
In this case, immediately. You immediately used a thread on a
completely different subject to inject yet another, irrelevant
personal anecdote.
The last time I remember someone desperately trying to shoehorn "I've
got a girlfriend!" into every conversation the way Roland does, we were
in the back of the team minibus to the County Orienteering Championship
and conversation topics included highlights such as "who has pubic hair
yet" and "who snogged Nicola H*".
On 31/01/2026 13:57, Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <cglfR.26064$BJ84.12353@fx17.ams1>, at 10:59:20 on Sat, 31
Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat,
31 Jan
2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I
did to
ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again >>>>>>> turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16
today)
as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Yes, of course the Denton service is indeed a parly, but what has
that got
to do with the subject of *this* thread?
Threads drift.
In this case, immediately. You immediately used a thread on a completely
different subject to inject yet another, irrelevant personal anecdote.
The last time I remember someone desperately trying to shoehorn "I've
got a girlfriend!" into every conversation the way Roland does, we were
in the back of the team minibus to the County Orienteering Championship
and conversation topics included highlights such as "who has pubic hair
yet" and "who snogged Nicola H*".
* answer: everyone, but she was working through the school in
alphabetical order, so some had to wait longer than others.
On 31/01/2026 13:57, Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <cglfR.26064$BJ84.12353@fx17.ams1>, at 10:59:20 on Sat, 31
Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat, 31 Jan >>>>> 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to >>>>>>> ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again >>>>>>> turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16 today) >>>>> as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Yes, of course the Denton service is indeed a parly, but what has that got >>>> to do with the subject of *this* thread?
Threads drift.
In this case, immediately. You immediately used a thread on a completely
different subject to inject yet another, irrelevant personal anecdote.
The last time I remember someone desperately trying to shoehorn "I've
got a girlfriend!" into every conversation the way Roland does, we were
in the back of the team minibus to the County Orienteering Championship
and conversation topics included highlights such as "who has pubic hair
yet" and "who snogged Nicola H*".
* answer: everyone, but she was working through the school in
alphabetical order, so some had to wait longer than others.
In message <x6mfR.12348$eEW.5461@fx16.ams1>, at 11:57:17 on Sat, 31 Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <cglfR.26064$BJ84.12353@fx17.ams1>, at 10:59:20 on Sat, 31
Jan 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
In message <KRdfR.13506$_pb.12420@fx11.ams1>, at 02:33:14 on Sat, 31 Jan >>>>> 2026, Recliner <recliner.usenet@gmail.com> remarked:
Oddly enough I was only telling my GF yesterday about a trip I did to >>>>>>> ride the once-weekly Stockport-Denton Parly, Denton having yet again >>>>>>> turned up in a clickbait story about little-used stations.
This isn?t a parly service, or anything like it.
Most people do in fact refer to the Denton train (08:42 and 09:16 today) >>>>> as a Parly. It's hardly changed in the 20yrs since I went on it.
Yes, of course the Denton service is indeed a parly, but what has that got >>>> to do with the subject of *this* thread?
Threads drift.
In this case, immediately. You immediately used a thread on a completely
different subject to inject yet another, irrelevant personal anecdote.
So what? You've managed to extend the thread by another seven or eight,
by the time it dies out. Whereas it would have been zero if you'd just
put a sock in it.
In this case only slightly, as both trains are
Saturdays-only. And are also likely to be mainly patronised by bashers.
The Greenford branch train isn?t the single, weekly service that would make >> it into a parly.
No-one said it was. So stop over-reading.
The Greenford branch train isn?t the single, weekly service that would make >>> it into a parly.
No-one said it was. So stop over-reading.
So what was the relevance of your Denton parly mention in this thread?
You obviously thought this was one, too.
The fact I was putting together the rather interesting Denton
by-election, and my recollection of when I was last there (on a Parly
train as it happens).
You've complained in the past about not knowing what I've been doing the last 35years - and hence wrongly assumed I'd been doing nothing much.
And then when I post an informative anecdote, complain about that too!
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
The fact I was putting together the rather interesting Denton
by-election, and my recollection of when I was last there (on a Parly
train as it happens).
You've complained in the past about not knowing what I've been doing the
last 35years - and hence wrongly assumed I'd been doing nothing much.
And then when I post an informative anecdote, complain about that too!
You seem to have misunderstood. We want fewer ? a lot fewer ? of your >personal anecdotes, from any era. We don?t care what you?ve been doing for >the last 45 years, and would rather not hear. We most certainly don?t want >this to become even more of your personal blog.
You seem to think there?s an avid audience for your autobiography, and >perhaps there is. But not here!
Roland Perry <roland@perry.uk> wrote:
The fact I was putting together the rather interesting Denton
by-election, and my recollection of when I was last there (on a Parly
train as it happens).
You've complained in the past about not knowing what I've been doing the
last 35years - and hence wrongly assumed I'd been doing nothing much.
And then when I post an informative anecdote, complain about that too!
You seem to have misunderstood. We want fewer ? a lot fewer ? of your personal anecdotes, from any era. We don?t care what you?ve been doing for the last 45 years, and would rather not hear. We most certainly don?t want this to become even more of your personal blog.
You seem to think there?s an avid audience for your autobiography, and perhaps there is. But not here!
What I would like to see less of is the endless bickering, nit-picking, >point-scoring and insults that both of you seem to make a habit of.
Just step back.
FTAOD I?m very happy to have anecdotes thrown in to conversations here -
it?s one of the things that makes this place interesting.
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