Recent content by Sholto Douglas

A very interesting and nostalgic review of my early days in the travel industry. I start work in 1968 at Exchange Travel's office in Piccadilly, Manchester. In those days, of course pre-computer, we held both BR domestic and European licenses. All BR tickets were issued on the old Edmondson...

Oops - yes you're quite correct. I do sometimes wonder about my ability to write other than what I mean to. I think that "33056" had realised the error of my ways and assumed that I had meant Halewood.

That makes sense and thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

Hopefully somebody will be able to help an infrequent visitor to this site. Looking at Traksy I can not find any reference to the line that runs by (the now defunct) Fiddlers Ferry Power station and then underneath Warrington Bank Quay station. I appreciate that this is a little used line...

Although I'm very much a watcher, rather than a poster, I would like to join in and wish all who contribute to the forum a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Many thanks, I have now bookmarked the BRfares site. You learn something new each day.

Many thanks for all who have, so far, replied. To clarify the full journey is actually Penrith to Alness, but I used Inverness as the nearest major station. Our reason for wanting to break the journey in Edinburgh is 3 fold. First and second reasons are that we have to use public transport to...

I was planning on travelling Penrith to Inverness using an off-peak return ticket and breaking my outward journey overnight in Edinburgh. Trainline's customer service team said that this could be done, but speaking to Scotrail (as a belts and braces confirmation) they said that it could not...