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Erm probably because your bank account will be empty shortly! Any app from a non legit store is always risky but one asking you for a £0.00 transaction is a giant red flag with alarm bells and klaxons going off!

Yep we had a steam powered carousel too for all our guests in the evening. Some of our photos were in the brochure too, but sadly they don’t seem to be doing the weddings any more, We go back every year for a meal on one of the dining trains for our anniversary and will normally visit...

The veranda car is brilliant! My wife and I were the first people to get married at GCR (sadly something they seem to have stopped doing now after on a few years) and we had our wedding breakfast in the veranda car. Being out there when going back north with the loco working away just a couple...

So what did everyone think?

I hadn’t seen the extra train, we booked when it was announced as I hadn’t done the GCRN when it was running before even though it’s pretty local and seeing as how it might be a while till it’s running again it was a case of go for it

My hound sits on the floor or my knees which is fun as he’s not small, but he is very good at personal hygiene, a lot of dogs are but you don’t realise it till you own one.

Just been past and the power stations turned off at the moment, odd to see it with no steam from the towers

It’s sad the amount of new bland generic box houses near GCR that are multiplying, my friend lives in an older house that backs on to the line just outside Loughborough (any regulars will no doubt have seen their little lad peering over the fence as he has a ladder set up for him) when they was...

I went past there yesterday on the A453 and I’m used to seeing the huge coal mountain outside, there’s hardly anything left now. I will miss it as I grew up around Chilwell, Attenborough and Long Eaton, and the chimney and towers always dominated the skyline,

How many times have you been stuck behind people on trains where the doors are automatic but you have to press a button to open them, and they just stand there looking confused as they haven’t magically opened on their own? I’ve been stood there a fair few times, then at heritage railways the...

We normally stay near dawlish Warren in the summer for our main holiday and have been all over Devon and Cornwall by train, with a rail card it’s great it’s so cheap compared to back home and the high priced midland main line. I think we have pretty much covered all lines in south Devon from...

The plated number on busses is worked out based on the kerb weight and then 65kg per person (for cars we use 75kg!!) and then you can have X people per m2 iirc… but most of the time it’s that reach a theoretical GVW… ie unladen mass, plus a passenger in every seat… whatever’s left devide that by...

It’s that time of year again….(a bit late if honest)… I thought I would ask the hive mind for recommendations as the wife is losing her mind trying to pick one. (I asked for recommendations for camping earlier in the year and had some good recommendations) Our little boy is just 14 months old...

Spotted today at Nottingham station, seems EMR are blaming the storm for the Robin Hood line being dry in the evenings

The Coalville to Derby part is still very much on the cards, it’s just the bottom bit to Leicester which was a sound bite from the speech that everyone jumped on but it was clear it hadn’t been thought through as just high level attention grabbing headlines with no actual substance… Leicester...