Recent content by MikeMck

Well before automated station announcements, during the 1950s/early 1960s, I well remember two particular stations with outstanding, and usefully clear station announcers. Both, as it happens, were both (usually) female. Outstanding was the announcer at Reading (General) who sounded somewhat...

I see this thread asks if there is website which shows a route timetable with train details. I assume GB only? A VERY hard to find resource which does this is on the following URL, which covers EVERY station in Europe, including Great Britain but excluding Ireland...

From 1994 until the opening of the first section of High Speed One (not sure of the date - 2002 maybe, until 2007 when the St Pancras section opened) Eurostar trains ran from Brixton to Folkestone on normal tracks as follows: Herne Hill, Bromley South, Orpington, Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Ashford...