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Just found the link to an incident in 2012, when someone sadly died trying to smoke a cigarette out of the door. This was on a 1962 stock train to Amersham. Definitely not safe and sounds an awful way to go...

And that's why you need a tunnel... Down to about a third of the previous time

Also, you'll need to put a passport-style photo into the plastic window on your membership card (instructions on the letter when you receive it). According to the magazine a few years ago, there were impersonation problems. Apparently some of the local holiday lets included a Ffestiniog Railway...

Sorry, my mistake. Edited. Many thanks

B.R. Black on City of Truro (1 April 198?)

Gwili railway has a special bar coach, with a bar and pub style seating. It used to be a real money spinner when Carmarthenshire was a dry county on Sundays I've heard from a volunteer. Large numbers of people would spend Sunday going up and down the line in the travelling pub

And here's the uniform for staff on the repainted trains/units: (runs for cover) (the above picture shows a person wearing a suit entirely composed of union flags)

The new Rochester station presumably counts, as a new 3-platform station built on a previously double track line

Applications to extend services into England go through the same hoops as any other operator AIUI. For instance, TfW wanted to extend the Birmingham International services to Coventry a while back but this was refused, by the ORR I think. The document that determines how TfW is allowed to run...

Welshpool West, Welshpool East (during works to divert the railway in order to build a bypass)

Dartmouth is pretty difficult for town residents to access on foot...

I just about remember the changeover. I and my dad would often travel from Strood to London Bridge and thence on the Northern Line to visit my grandparents. The main difference I noticed (as a young child) was that the networkers had sliding doors! You press a button and the door opens! Wow! I...

So I can use electronic timetables as I'm in an urban area. The main problem, on a Wales level, is a lack of phone signal across large parts of the country. Certainly TfW have made great strides on providing digital information to their stations, but people appreciate having a current...

Newtown station travel (which sadly closed during the pandemic) was run as a commercial enterprise and the proprietor was not employed by TfW

Newtown Powys once the new footbridge opens