Incredibly cool photos of trains

Hitachi, Newton Aycliffe makes/assembles trains/multiple units for British railways. I'm not sure how much is manufacturing and how much as assembling, or indeed where you draw the line between the two?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Newton_Aycli...

Units are still being made in Derby as well I believe.

125 group tour to St Pancras today.

Ooh, that takes me back.
It's still widely called Victoria Terminus. I used to walk past most mornings on my way to work and often bought the Times of India from the charming disabled lady who had a pavement pitch outside the station.
I only had that job for 9 months but grew to love India with all my heart.
Rail travel there is... an experience. I took the sleeper train to Hyderabad once.
Just once.

No the North Norfolk Railway. This is Weybourne station where you can change trains. They usually run a DMU and a steam train most days.

The last steam train to be made by British Railways 9f Class "Evening Star" came out of Swindon works in 1960. It was withdrawn from service in 1965. It cost £33,500 to build.

I only looked at one website but the answer given was "£33,500 in 1960 is worth £951,423.91 today" and that seems cheap to me... Especially as elsewhere I read that "a diesel-electric locomotive can cost between $1.5 and $5 million..."

But if you were geared up to build a couple of hundred A1s or 9Fs the unit cost would plummet.

It might be simpler but it is very much better to look at

The epitome of British steam engines

2007 will have cost around £6 000 000 by the time she is finished. Slightly bigger and more challenging engineering, but most of the difference is inflation.