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Hi All Does anyone know whether there is a definitive list of rail tours that visit Kyle of Lochalsh? Living on Skye these days and any chance to view anything other than a 158 will be gratefully received :) Thanks

The news was indeed posted by RMT first. However I do wonder if the TOC has any legal loopholes etc to navigate prior to returning to the regular timetable?

Still nothing on the Avanti website. Dare I say there is a process to follow for such events.

Thank goodness for that. Ma and Pa had booked London-Glasgow on the 23rd. Huge contingency plans were being put together including Lumo, British airways or easyJet. None of the options were particularly cheap!

Thankyou for all the advice. I currently run a 2012 Lexus GS which is low mileage and immaculate condition. Might fall foul of the age limit though!

Hi All Am thinking of supplementing my hospitality business in Skye with private guided tours of the island. Would definitely need to amend my insurance to cover business use. Not sure whether I'd effectively need a taxi license too? Cheers

Really enjoyed the article in RM regarding the West Coast electricification. Didn't realise just how bad things had got with dwindling passenger numbers in the late 70s and 80s. The idea of cutting IC services short at Preston certainly stood out! Was fairly obvious that HSTs being introduced on...

At that ticket price I'm not surprised. 'Footex' services should not cost double the price of an ordinary day return.

Presume if mk2 d-f, they will need a generator van in the rake to provide the ETH?

Both the ones I went on were actually very good. I rated my driving skills as 8/10 when asked by the instructor early on. I reduced this to 4/10 just before the course ended having realised how little I actually knew about driving, safety and road markings etch

I went to a speed awareness course expecting an argument. I came out more educated on road safety and more humble about my own driving ability.

Yes that was my exact recollection of St Pancras. Quite a few times as a young kid my dad would take me to London's termini. Kings Cross and Paddington were the most enjoyable. Even the platform ends at Euston were a good place to be purely due to the amount of movements. We used to pop into St...

Plus the WCML was wanting to run it's express passenger services at 100mph. Don't think the poor old MML stood a chance of retaining it's newer mk1s. Out of interest was the limit generally 90mph on the MML? Obviously the 'Peaks' were (theoretically) limited to this speed but didn't the odd 47...

Weren't the Nottingham and Sheffield services fairly run down during this period too? Often lacking catering facilities and being the last IC route to receive MK2 carriages?

Yes definitely scope for a separate thread! One can only wonder how it got there too. I'd say almost certainly it went via Harwich!