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The entry on land acquisition in the Oxford Companion to British Railway History, published in the 1990s, says something like 'even today some long leases remain in force', so I presume there was no automatic transfer of freehold at nationalization. The article says that wayleaves, where the...

I seem to remember seeing something similar on the Berlin S-Bahn in 1992. My father remembered Underground trains running with their doors open, presumably in the 1940s or early 50s, but I very much doubt if he ever photographed it.

Also Paul Theroux in The Great Railway Bazaar, which it might be easier to find a copy of.

I was keen not to look as if I was gawping (and while the recent notoriety of the station is perhaps what put it in my mind sufficiently to plan an actual visit, it's the kind of place that I would probably have visited sometime anyway); if I'd seen anyone I would have waved or said 'good...

I accept than in the world we live in this suggestion is never going to happen and the only solution is for the railway to design, maintain and empty its toilets properly so the situation doesn't arise; but if passengers can't wait, to put it bluntly, the track is a better place than the floor...

I got off the train there in April, at the start of a walk to Forsinard (which took me over the level crossing). The only obvious sign of the events of recent years was the recently constructed and somewhat circuitous signposted route off the platform.

It may well be true (at least if you're referring to regularly scheduled passenger services) -- the jetfoils were/are hydrofoils rather than hovercraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_929_Jetfoil

How much is too much water? -- this video from 2011 suggests it can cope (or at least used to) with more than you might expect:

I don't think anyone has yet mentioned the Isle of Wight -- its railways have always been isolated from the national network (was there ever a train ferry or did any rail vehicles transferred to or from the island have to be craned on or off ships before road low loaders were available?), and...

But still useable if your need was great enough, unlike modern train toilets which are prone to locking themselves out of use. (And I don't remember them being that bad in Mk 1s)

Thankyou for the replies. I'm not certain that I did it all correctly for a renewal, but it seems unlikely that I would have done anything other than click on the 'renew' link in the e-mail. I then had to reset my password*; perhaps that could have broken the link with the previous card, but I...

(I wondered about putting this in Disputes and Prosecutions, but it's not (yet) an actual dispute, and probably not worth making one -- I'm just seeking clarification). On 17th June I received an e-mail notification that my Network Railcard was due for renewal; the actual expiry date is 15th...

The first station to be called 'Killin' was what later became Glenoglehead, about 4 miles by road (a bit less in a straight line, more by rail) from the later Killin station on the branch from Killin Junction. It closed to regular passenger traffic soon after the branch was opened, although...

On Realtime Trains, all the trains stopping at Chertsey seem to have vanished for the rest of the day (except for a post-midnight one to Woking), as if they were never planned to exist in the first place. The replacement ones starting at Virginia Water in future (including, as of 16.15, the...

I read that first comment as (correctly) blaming the signal, not the driver. As far as the driver knew, the signal was at red because a) he had seen it change to red as he was about to pass it, and b) his train was now occupying the section that it was supposed to protect. Indeed. (The report...