Recent content by darkpowers

Much of the blame is down to the double act of Beeching and Marples than Beeching alone. But Beeching himself wanted to go further and cut the trunk routes, but thankfully, his follow up plans were rejected and he went back to ICI. I grew up in South East Wales where the passenger service on...

Sounds like a good offer, but it would be nice if there were such special offers for those of us in the middle range of ages - i.e. over 24 and under 55 - for a change.

I agree. Llanhilleth is my local station, and whenever I've caught a train from there the tickets are usually marked as being brought at Ebbw Vale Parkway, and by my observation, Llanhilleth is better used than the stats suggest.

A contender for the the highest standard gauge UK railway station (outside of Scotland) is Whistle Inn Halt on The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway in South Wales, which is around 1300ft above sea level.