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Harold Gasson has a few books... i'm reading Signalling Days at the moment and it's pretty interesting with good stories. I'm sure the other books will be good also. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1/275-6875736-2187567?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=harold+gasson&x=0&y=0

This might be the closest you can get to Frodsham Junction: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=53.307096,-2.700748&spn=0.004564,0.01929&gl=uk&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.307094,-2.700743&panoid=ufyoWClzm_sXHY7pCBnlWA&cbp=11,90.01,,0,0 There's also Chester Road on the opposite side of the viaduct...

If you login, you'll see it in the Downloads section under Official Software - 'Simulations (for Registered Users)'. The shop is the area to make donations for simulations you are using.

I used to live in an apartment overlooking Chester railway station. It took a while to get used to the constant announcements and the trains stabling overnight right outside my bedroom window (especially the engineering trains!), but it more than made up for it when a rail tour arrived and the...

Abergele & Pensarn station on the North Wales coast is pretty wide between platforms..

Another on Merseyrail (with no toilets onboard)... a guy caught short after a night out in Liverpool and on the way back to Chester, just stood there in front of a full carriage and relieved himself directly onto a seat! The only good bit of this was the amount of abuse he got from the rest of...

I know that track improvement work is being done at Chester this weekend. I can currently see from my apartment window that platform 7 (that Merseyrail use) does not have any track! They've cleared the track bed and are currently putting down a sandy-looking material... plenty of...

There are definitely coal trains between Ellesmere Port and Fiddlers Ferry - sometime pulled by a Class 70. Other freight trains carry gypsum, and also the log train of course.

The last 2 Sundays there has been all-day engineering work near platforms 4a/b at Chester station. Looks like they are replacing/renewing the track (from what I can tell). I live in the apartments opposite and received the following letter the other day, although this letter is more related to...