Recent content by Tim B

Am closing this offer now as I've surprisingly received no interest and am instead sending then to a friend. Kind Regards Tim Bloomfield

Hello Everyone I am having a serious declutter and have a number of bound editions of Trains Illustrated and Modern Railways to get rid of. Excellent condition. Will be happy to GIVE WITHOUT CHARGE to first person who comes to me in Kilburn London NW6 to collect. All copies or none. I...

Hello I have booked a few days in Glasgow later this month to try out a few scenic Scottish rail line, such as new Borders Line. Would you recommend the Jacobite train Fort William - Mallaig and return ? How comfortable is it and is first class worth the extra ? Is it possible to purchase...

Thanks everyone for your very helpful replies. We're only travelling one way to St Albans which is why the Oyster PAYG is rather better value than the through ticket Brondesbury Park to St Albans Abbey. Have bought one way off peak tickets WTJ to SAA from LM to collect at Brondesbury Park.

Want to use this line to visit St Albans tomorrow. It's much cheaper to use Oyster PAYG to Watford Junction than to buy a through ticket from my home station of Brondesbury Park. Do I remember correctly that there are guards/conductors on these LM trains who will sell you tickets ? Thanks...

Thanks everyone for your replies on this. In the end I have asked to refund the Grand Central tickets and have booked on Virgin East Coast; though the cost is slightly more at least there is a guaranteed seat. I am rather poorly and cannot stand for any length of time unfortunately. It is...

Hello Everyone Can anyone help me with this ? Some friends and I are visiting Middlesborough this weekend. Yesterday I booked 3 first class tickets on the Grand Central website on 12:53 Kings Cross - Eaglescliffe this Friday 22 May. Returning on 09:29 Eaglescliffe - Kings Cross Monday 25...

Belses Wasn't there a station at Newstead between Melrose and St Boswells ? My Wignall's Atlas is also showing a station "Netherfold" between Leadburn and Eddleston. I think this must be wrong as I can find no such place.

Difficult to give any clues as to these rather obscure place names. You can find the correct answer in Wikipedia if you make a judicious search. Can someone tell me at least what country / countries these 2 border crossings are now in ?

No, further east than that

Not too hard I think: When travelling overland by rail to Moscow immediately before WWII in August 1939 via Berlin, Warsaw and Minsk, 1) what are the 2 places on either side of the Polish - Soviet border where passengers had to change trains ? and 2) in what country/countries are these places...

Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV ? Her railway carriage was built in 1842 by London and Birmingham Railway and still exists in the National Railway Museum at York, though I can't tell you where or when her carriage was first used.

Could we please have a little clue .........

Correct - that was too easy ! Over to you Welshman .....

That was the only Rebecca I could think of ! This is my first clue - hope it's not too easy: A school for our sick lord ?