Recent content by TommyJ

This is great, thank you. I did this trip in 2009. So wonderful boarding in London and waking up running alongside Loch Lomond.

That works great.

Even two hours back would be a great feature.

This looks really promising. Nice one. Be great to be able to go to earlier departures like Railboard.

I’d vote for 1983-1992. Golden year 1988. Post the disruptive 1982 strikes. Lots of infrastructure improvement. ECML electrification approved in 1984, opened to Leeds in 89 and Edinburgh in 91. Other electrification to Hastings, Weymouth, Ayr etc. New stations such as Milton Keynes Central (ok...

I used Travelling Chef in 1st class Paddington to Swansea. Absolutely delicious omelette. I was well impressed. Wish they could bring it back… This is from 2010.

Ah that’s funny. Do you happen to know why the 501s were fitted with bars? Had there been an incident?

Bars on train windows as per the class 501s which used to work Richmond to Broad Street. As a child I used to think of them as “prison trains”!

No, I don’t remember any squeaking back in the 70s 80s 90s. i think it was introduced when they changed the rubber (?) seals at the end of the coaches in the 2000s.

My jaw has just hit the floor tracing this article in The Guardian. Eurostar trains forced to run with empty seats due to Brexit passport rules It says 350 out of 900 seats normally left unsold on the first services between London, Paris and Brussels. This just seems extraordinarily...

Used to listen avidly to LBC as a teen in the 80s. Particularly late at night. It was a revelation.

LBC was the London Broadcasting Company when it started in 1973.

This is absolutely brilliant, thank you.

I used to love a Big Casey in the 80s. Sometimes the highlight of a trip up to London.

It seems to be 400.5 according to https://my.railmiles.me/mileage-engine/