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I have booked a journey from Stamford to Penzance in July using three separate tickets but all under the same booking reference. Stamford-Peterborough 08.00, Peterborough-London 10.10 (advance ticket) and London-Penzance 12.07. Since I made the booking, the departure time of the 12.07 from...

Fort William sleeper keeps stopping. We are sitting just before Spean Bridge at the moment. Seems the 73's are struggling.

I'm at Fort William now waiting to board. It's a double 73 tonight with 5 coaches, there's an extra sleeper.

I got caught up in this travelling back from Newcastle to Stamford. I was booked on the 16.25 which was starting from Newcastle, got on and at about 16.20 the guard announced there would be a delay due to a signalling problem. Updates every few minutes, basically saying he didn't know when we...

This was indeed a theory at one time but was discounted long ago and it is now recognized that the 's ending is simply the last remnant of the case endings which were present in old English and still are in many modern languages. English case endings were gradually dropped in the period...

In old English the word "his" was used as the possessive for both neuter and masculine gender. The word "it" was already in use and the possessive form "it's" came into use by analogy with other possessive forms, and the first recorded use is in "The second book of madrigals" published by...

I was on the sleeper into Fort William that day for a few days walking. When we arrived at Spean Bridge we were just told the line was blocked and we were being transferred to buses for the trip to Fort William. Two buses were provided, 55 passengers apparently. Some of the passengers intended...

Quick question: I have some delay repay vouchers to use up, which can't be used for on-line booking. Can I use them to buy advance tickets at a ticket office, or are advance tickets on-line only?

The current excursion line seems to have been last used sometime between 1990 and 2010 going by my Baker rail atlases, 6th and 12th editions. The 12th edition shows it as in situ, but marks it as disused. It apparently used an excursion platform at the current Aintree station. The line starts...

Thanks very much!

... on a Saturday. A friend wants to make this trip and asked me what ticket to get. If I type in Peterborough to Welling on the FCC booking sites, it offers "One Day Off Peak Travelcard - Peterborough to London Zones 1-6" price £37.50 as the cheapest option. However if I type in...

As a kid, 1970's, me and my mates would regularly walk the track bed of the Stamford & Essendine to do some trainspotting on the ECML at Essendine, about 3 miles away. The whole route was easily walkable apart from a stretch through Belmesthorpe. Looks very overgrown now and also built on in a...

BBC news quoted some one as saying they think it was going too fast when it reached the buffers. :roll: No xxxx Sherlock.

I used to use football coaches regularly for away matches, and most of the time I found the cramped but tolerable, but one time me and my mate got the seats behind the central stair well, which lead down to the loo and the emergency exit. At first site we thought we had got lucky as we had a big...

The Kings Cliffe line closed to passengers (Peterborough-Rugby service) in 1966, not sure exactly when it was dismantled but it was gone when I moved to the area in 1969, as I remember walking the trackbed from Fineshade to Kings Cliffe. You can't do that now as Fineshade woods have reclaimed it...