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Lickey Incline is the steepest mainline railway gradient in the UK, bit not necessarily the busiest for freight. Most freight runs Monday -Friday with significantly less on weekends. A search on Real Time Trains for Bromsgrove (the station at the bottom of the Lickey Incline shows several...

Pretty much anywhere that has freight trains as they are the workhorse of the Rail freight industry. Where abouts in the UK are you visiting?

Update on my visit to Thessaloniki. Visited the museum on a Monday morning, on arrival found it deserted although the gate was open so walked in which set off a siren which roused a security guard from her spot in the shade. Entry fee was 10 Euro (cash only, or I could transfer money to a bank...

Thanks for the comprehensive information.

Travelling to Thessaloniki later this month and hope to have some time to explore the local railway scene. Are there any decent spots to photograph trains in an around the city? The city seems to have a relatively limited passenger service. Is there much freight? Is any of the metro above...

Present once for each passenger when boarding. Touch just once for all passengers when alighting.

Public transport in Mallorca does exactly this - for up to 6 passengers on 1 card. It also has a discount applied for every passenger after the 1st one.

Southall, Hanwell, Acton Main Line, Bond Street and Tottenham Court Road all lack National Rail symbols. Suspect some other Elizabeth line stations will as well despite being National Rail services.

Hopefully also a thorough investigation and robust action for the company's O Licence and Traffic Manager by the Traffic Commisioner.

During my time at King Edward's in Bath (1985 -1992) Badgerline were contracted to provide a bus for the weekly games lessons at Bathampton. Usually a VR or an RE. Remember a VR stalling at the bottom of North Road on one return journey and all of us having to walk the remaining short distance...

Southall - plenty of mainline action plus the heritage stock at the depot.

Careful what you wish for. Unless the legislation is very well written this could, at a stroke, make videoing trains (along with buses, trucks etc) illegal as the drivers are in their workplace. Of course people would argue you can't 'see' the driver through the windscreen, but they are still...

Almost certainly. I was trying to get on the Elizabeth line at 16:10 when it all got suspended.

IIRC Elizabeth line trains have the headcode in the destination indicators on the sides of each unit

No idea which loco was involved, but services unlikely to start before Wednesday...