Recent content by ex-railwayman

We haven't ascertained this information yet, but, did the OP obtain his ticket from a Ticket Clerk in a Station, and hand his Railcard over for inspection? Did they notice that it had expired, they obviously gave them a reduced priced ticket on the information provided for them at the time to do...

Oh, I quite agree, and it's not just in France, it's global. I've been embarrassed on several occassions abroad where you see fellow Brits who demand that the natives speak English to them because they can't be bothered to learn a few words of their language, it makes my blood boil. Anyway...

I enjoyed a long weekend visit to Lille many years ago, lots of really quaint small cobbled streets around the old town, depends on what public places have re-opened since the Covid pandemic, you won't be far from any drinking establishments and Restaurants serving authentic Flemish cuisine...

I was under the impression that 'petrol' was just a shortening of the naming petroleum, as this company were refinerers of petroleum spirit, just like 'gas' was/is short for gasoline? Cheerz. Steve.

If the 1981 original wasn't bad enough there have been various cover versions recorded since about 2005 done by various artists, I'd never listen to any of them, but, you can find the videos on YouTube......lol Cheerz. Steve.

The Birdie Song..........Many a transistor radio bludgeoned with a mallet when that came on. Cheerz. Steve.

No good all day on Saturdays and Sundays as Library buildings (run by Councils) and Post Offices are closed, think again.....

Really? I hate seeing people's faces, and I wear my mask on trams every week, which is still encouraged in Nottingham. I can also still stick my tongue out in all the shops and supermarkets at the indisciplined and uncouth staff on a whole manner of things, telling folks to eff off quietly has...

From the BBC News website just now, 04-04-2022 The legal requirement to wear face coverings in places of worship and while attending marriage and funeral services in Scotland has ended. About one in 12 people had Covid last week and the number in hospital with the virus was at a record high...

LOL, you've just made me spill my Cornflakes!!! I had to smile at the BBC news story about this, the last sentence stated - A recent opinion poll by Abacus Data suggested 68% of Canadians felt they had "very little in common" with the protesters, while 32% said they "had a lot in common" with...

He did sort out the freight in parts, he generated the improvisation of marshalling yards on the railway network, Tinsley's Hump and Marshalling Yard in Sheffield being one of the first to be built, which he personally opened in 1965, that was purpose built to close down the plethora of small...

From what I can remember from memory of working for Freightliners was that Class 40s were only diagrammed to work the Manchester Trafford Park services to Holyhead as Manchester was the only location in the 1970s/80s to have Class 40 locos available from a home depot (Longsight). I worked at...

Yes, Beeching also structured the MerryGoRound system for coal traffic in HAA wagons from pits to power stations, and 55 years on the operation's still on-going., I wonder how many lorries that's kept off Britain's roads? Cheerz. Steve.

I can't remember the whole story, but, the Transport Act 1976 transferred Freightliners Ltd back under the British Railways Board as a wholly owned subsidiary, in 1988 Freightliners Ltd was told to merge with Railfreight Ltd as BRB wanted all non-bulk traffic flows to come under one umbrella...

Yeah, I went past Sandiacre just before Christmas, they are still busy up there. At Nottingham we also had the honour I suppose you could call it of helping the 'Geordies' to construct the Tyne & Wear Metro back in the 1980s, we sent them train loads of open containers full of tunnel segments...