Recent content by Philip C

Sorry! I fully understand your point and I have no problem with what you have written about those two examples. The trouble is that if you adjusted the criteria, for this rather esoteric thread, and specified a minimum level of patronage that station pairs must reach to be valid then you'd have...

In what manner might a service between Bryn and Patricroft not be useful to someone wishing to travel, by train, from Bryn to Patricroft? I fear that your desired clarification is, for practical purposes, undefinable or, if defined, unappliable.

If you peep at posting #26 you will see that, whilst I do not include Lichfield TV - Burton I do cite Rugeley TV - Burton (using the little used curve at Lichfield) and also South Wigston and Market Harborough as further end points (via the line through Coalville). This leaves Lichfield TV -...

I'm particularly concerned about the scope for young enthusiasts to come across threads such as this - it is all really rather unpleasant! Is there any scope for 'Rail UK Forums' to obtain a special price for Anger Management courses?

I have a few of their books myself and concur with what you say; however they are not what I would term scholarly and, I doubt, are intended so to be. My recommendation remains that anybody wishing to establish 'facts' uses either original documents or more than one secondary source. In no...

Moody (Fifth Edition) states May 1978 which accords with what remains of my memory. yorksrob also quotes Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith's (of the Middleton Press) book on the Epsom - Horsham route (of the Southern Mainlines series), that all coastal services were diverted via Gatwick Airport in 1979...

"but have no direct train services at all between the two stations despite being next to each other." quote from opening post. They are indeed next to each other but I'd contend that saying that they have 'no direct train services at all between (them)' isn't the case as the South Shields to...

The first line of the thread reads: "I am just trying to make a list of all railway stations that are next to each other and have a railway line going between them but have no direct train services at all between the two stations despite being next to each other." I read that as three...

Thanks for the reminder then!

The basic Victoria - Bognor service left Victoria at xx02 and called at Sutton, Dorking, Horsham, Pulborough, Arundel, Barnham and Bognor Regis. Bognor was reached in 96 minutes and conveyed a buffet car (in my experience normally a BEP rather than a BIG). The front portion from Barnham...

Without definitions this thread is open to contradictory interpretation. If Samantha wishes to step forward I will be delighted to see what she has to offer.

I withdraw Frome/Pewsey from my list. I am, however, hanging on to this one as there are no scheduled passenger services (to my knowledge) and the possibility of exceptional circumstances leading to exceptional services must apply to every cited pairing that conforms to the 'connected by...

Thank you to 'Low Level' and 'tsr' for providing useful and prompt answers to my question.

I hesitate to post on this thread but seem to recall reference being made at some point to Guards having 'route knowledge'. Memory suggests that it was posted that in an emergency they would be aware of, for example, the track layout. I'd always associated route knowledge with drivers and not...

I commend reading the first post on this thread which reads "I am just trying to make a list of all railway stations that are next to each other and have a railway line going between them but have no direct train services at all between the two stations despite being next to each other." To...