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Writing's pretty clear, but could well just be that the shape of the numbers is similar and I was misremembering. It was a family trip with a lot going on and I was not very familiar with the area or the system at that time. I'll just go with 9041. Can't see it would be anything else. Cheers.

Back in 2017, I apparently had a ride on tram 9041. I've since discovered that this particular vehicle was renumbered 9091 four years earlier. I'm wondering how I could have got this wrong. I'm guessing maybe the old number was still on display inside? Any ideas other than 'you need an eye test'?

G&WSR gets a steady stream of Indian visitors. A visit by steam train to Broadway as a quintessential Cotswold village seems to be on a lot of their holiday itineraries. A fair few get quite interested in the locos and stock as well.

Haha! Yeah, when I saw St Charles mentioned I just thought the station area is a soft warning for what's in store around the city in general.

Another vote for Frankfurt am Main Hbf. The whole area around it is horrible. As others have mentioned, it doesn't help that Frankfurt is also contender for Germany's least likeable city. Transient population mostly driven there by money. Also concur on the Steindamm area near Hamburg Hbf...

A surprising one from the Class 142s' second spell in Devon given that no services were normally booked to terminate there: https://www.flickr.com/photos/70217914@N04/51164313980/in/photolist-2kPENZE-2kVgZp6-2kXdu1u-2o16ERD-2ptmgwP

Apologies if it's already been mentioned, but Zürich still has plenty of Tram 2000s (Be 4/6) knocking about, a design dating from the 1970s. They're gradually being replaced - I believe some are being exported to Ukraine - but they're still around in numbers.

Great. Thanks for the replies.

Just double-checking really: as an England resident with a UK passport I can still buy an Ireland InterRail pass and use it freely in Northern Ireland. Correct? Thanks.

I don't think rail enthusiasm will ever die out, but it simply isn't as popular as it was in its heyday, broadly-speaking 1950s-1980s. That's a fact. Personally speaking (80s bashing generation if it helps understand my perspective ), the modern UK mainline scene is utterly vapid to me. I still...

Same goes for the Cornish sleeper too. Patterns of working may have changed, so there is less emphasis on people getting to west Cornwall for a day's work or a 9am meeting, but it would be a brave person who pulled a plug on it. Cornwall's MPs may be all 'blue' now but 20 years ago none were. It...

Thanks all for the helpful replies.

That's great. Thanks Danm14.

Need some help here. The iLink ticket looks like a good value option for a day's train travel in Northern Ireland, but I'm not sure the Translink website is too clear about how it works. Couple of questions, if anyone can help please: 1) Is it valid on the Enterprise within NI? Website says...

Cornwall Voted Brexit is a neat soundbite, but I shouldn't really have to point out that the reality on the ground is a much more nuanced thing. The Truro & Falmouth constituency voted majority Remain and the St Ives result was fairly close. Even as a Remainer myself, I can understand the...