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From their website: “It is with great regret that we must advise that our first two tours are unable to go ahead as planned, we have recently been advised by our train operating company that they are unable to resource the necessary traction and drivers for these tours. Further to this, our...

Hi, I will soon receive a CIE priv card, but details of the discounts applied in the UK are quite vague. Is it a blanket 75% as if it was a British Priv? There are also free/discounted rated available on Stena/Irish Ferries - does anyone know the specifics and whether it applies to just foot...

Cwmbran-Pontypool 1st Class on The Gerald!

My worst interview experience was with a certain FOC in 2012 - made it through the first couple of rounds, then went to the depot for the final interview with a couple of the managers and for whatever reason (probably my age) they went on an absolute tyrade, laughed me out of the room, refused...

Rosslare - Waterford!

February 2020, Dublin to Liverpool on Seatruck Panorama I was the only passenger alongside many unattended HGV trailers - after we departed Dublin, the fun began - as soon as the dinner service was over, the crew disappeared to their quarters and I spent the next 8 hours alone in the public...

In South Wales, the Halls Road Branch is still in situ where it spurs away from the Ebbw Vale Line near Crosskeys Station. There are also some very limited sections of the Blaenavon (High Level) LNWR branch left between Pontypool and Varteg hidden in the undergrowth next to the cycle track...

When I was living in the UK, I had a 2017 Passat GT Estate (2.0TDI) which I put 120,000 miles on over 30 months (averaging about 1040 miles a week) and it never missed a beat! Tried importing it into Ireland and the VRT+NOX Tax was more than the book value, so I got rid of it :(

I was getting 12mpg out of an E400mmc (Cummins) and 8.5mpg out of a B9TL Gemini

That was often 3-4 weeks in advance!

The fares will have a large impact - there have been plenty of times where I have attempted to book a Friday night flight back to the UK to find them to be 200EUR+ and have opted for SailRail instead!

When travel between Dublin and Holyhead is once again permitted, it'll be interesting to see the impact upon loadings - lots of bottled up demand from the Irish market, that's for sure!

Ahh, apologies for that! Can you not contact your old school and request reprints?

I am a regular browser of TOC job sites, but have noticed how out of all TOCs TFW consistently advertises the highest volume of "internal only" positions on their public website by quite a considerable margin. I work in a niche transport job and regularly see equivalent roles being advertised at...

This is often forgotten and would attract gasps of disbelief at local community groups, when I would talk to them about their vulnerable bus service and the fact that their 2 Optare Solos pootling around were costing £200k a year, with a handful of ENCTS cardholders paying their way....