Recent content by James Starkie

I’m coming up to a significant next summer and am looking at striking a few more off my bucket list. I’m based in Lancashire and wonder how feasible it is to get down to Penzance, then sleeper up to Paddington. Then CS upto Inverness and back to Preston the following night. Is it doable and...

I took the family to Whalley station for a close up and it was great; the single white light coming out of the gloom, the sight and then the noise of the steam etc. Marvellous. Since then I've been thinking about who drove it? Not names but is it the same crew that would be doing all the...

Special thanks to D841 for giving me the info to do this journey. We boarded a 158 at Hellifield at 0940. An hour and a half at Carlisle then a single coach 15x to Whitehaven. Serious points problems at Maryport meant 45L which continued through the afternoon. We were meant to catch the 1623...

Thanks so much.

Sounds like a plan, thanks. Can you get a day rover to cover that?

Hello all. It's my birthday on Tuesday and I fancied bussing it to Skipton, up the Settle to Carlisle and back via the coast and then back to Burnley via Preston. Perhaps a few stops on the way? Or how about leaving a car at Skipton and coming off the coast to Lancaster and then back to Skipton...

My ticket says Surbiton-Accrington. Is this one journey - one fare? ie Metrolink included? And, if so, could I travel from Piccadilly to Rochdale on Metrolink then onto the Curve onwards?

What's the chances of a trio with a Voyager?

My work involves sitting behind a computer for most of the day. Happily, it is a 27" Mac so I have the live webcam in the bottom left hand corner of my screen. It's a joy to hear the sea and the gulls, as well as the regular movements back and forth I also like the train tracker underneath...

It's all looking fairly calm down there now, (and it has to be said, a bit monotonous looking at, well, not much) but congratulations have to go to the guys (and girls) who have worked through this and have now done much of the rebuild. I have read elsewhere that there's about a thousand workers...

I've been watching the webcam for the last few days, and, at the risk of asking a silly question but can anyone explain what sequence this work is following? ie, what are they doing?