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I remember hearing the following announcement from a guard on an HST not long after boarding: “Will ye close the doors?? Ye’re causin’ a draught!!”

Similar situation at Finsbury Park. The slow lines have platforms either side of one track, but as far as I’m aware these extra faces aren’t numbered, and I don’t recall ever seeing train doors open on the sides which would technically be platforms 3 and 6 - I should imagine this is because...

A good while ago (possibly still in Intercity days) a delayed service I caught from Newcastle to Peterborough somewhat unusually came into the station with a 91 at the front and running blunt-end first, nose-to-nose with the DVT… when I disembarked, I saw what was presumably the reason - a...

Has anyone mentioned Metrocentre yet…?

Apologies - thought I’d checked the entire thread before mentioning… obviously I hadn’t…!!

Huntingdon’s P1 is no longer used in service, but certainly used to fit the criteria - some northbound trains used to terminate at P3 before running empty a little way north and using the slow to fast and northbound to southbound crossovers to change direction, then running through P2 before...

Has anyone mentioned Steve Nage (or Steven Age) yet…? You get two for one there!! Keep going up the ECML and you’ll also find Sandy, Peter Borough and Grant Ham before meeting Don Caster. And if you keep going north, you’ll also eventually stumble across Pegs Wood. On other regions, you’ve...

On a Saturday evening at the beginning of last month, I boarded a service at Finsbury Park which I initially thought was the delayed 23:54 ex-Horsham to Peterborough (9J76), but quickly became somewhat confused when it slowed down where I wasn’t expecting it to, the ride became noticeably more...

Pleased to see that others have mentioned some favourites of mine (91110 (BBMF), the promotional 365s and the “European”-liveried 90s), but my vote goes to 91111 “Lest We Forget” - the livery is stunning in its own right, but I particularly like the fact that it was applied to a loco which...

For me, the best would either be HST (LNER/EMT) or Mk4 (LNER). Lovely comfortable seats, attentive service, and an extremely pleasant ambience for the journey. For shorter trips, I must also give an honourable mention to the sadly soon to be departed GN 365s - again, they have lovely...

I’ve seen several people almost get caught out this way on 317s, and I almost have been myself at least once! I always found that if you just pressed the button and quickly released it, you just got a “psst” sound and not much movement from the doors... the trick seemed to me to be to hold the...

Moderator Note - Posts #1-#13 originally in this thread: Class 365 withdrawal confirmed [Great Northern] | RailUK Forums (railforums.co.uk) According to GN’s website, from this May after the 365s go, they’ll be using other stock from within TSGN on GN routes - quote below... “When we start to...

I did think the fact they have the same engines as EMR’s 222s may have helped with the reliability issues... clearly not the case thus far though. Shame really... I had a journey a few years ago on one of GC’s fleet from SUN-KGX and was quite impressed with it from a passenger’s point of...

Sunderland to Kings Cross - either on Grand Central around the Durham Coast line, rejoining the ECML at Northallerton and then non-stop from York, or on LNER heading in the opposite direction out of Sunderland along the old Brandling Junction line through Felling and Heworth to Newcastle Central...

If we’re allowing closed stations... A few years ago I was wandering around North London after running an errand, hunting for a railway station so I could get back into the centre quite quickly. After consulting Google Maps, I discovered that there was a rather lovely-sounding station not too...