CmdrMcLane

What country or place most surprised you either by its beauty or its uniqueness?

Both! But yes, I have been a railroad fan most of my life and growing up in Germany been going down to the tracks with my grand father as a kid to watch the trains go by. He had somehow gotten old charts of the tracks and timetables and we'd compare the trains coming through etc. After a while the engineers would know us and wave. In the South of France I made my parents help me stalk the new TGV and then when I was like 12 the ICE train came about! Good times!!

Wrote some papers in grad school comparing London, NYC and Paris metro! Interesting stuff for sure. The badge will be going to a good home, I promise! I'll pm you right now!

And yes, my google skills are pretty good, I always say "I am a professional googler!"

Here the link for everyone else who wants to read more about it. Took a few minutes to find it, I was determined hah!

http://www.lurs.org.uk/UN189%2001%20FEB%201978.pdf

Why the fuck is this on my front page?!? There are barely any replies by OP!

He kinda did getting into Egypt from Sudan. No way to get across without a handler.

Do you mean the other of the two special trains? If so that number was 464. After they removed the headboard (to stand in as a backup "Royal Train"), it ran empty from Northfields Depot number 274 and then with passengers from Heathrow as number 466!

Edit: Since you ask 'To Heathrow" it would have to be 274. Final answer!