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Your memory serves you well. In my time in Huddersfield during the 70s, platform 1 was mainly used for the stabling of parcels stock.

Just out of interest - how do you intend to get your 29 senior citizens back to Llanfair PG? A coach for an outward and return trip should be cheaper.

Thank you.

We shall shortly be travelling from Manchester to Newcastle c/o Transpennine Express on a Cl.801. Can anyone tell me which carriage is the unreserved one. Thank you.

Not for nothing was Central Trains known as the Yarmouth to Barmouth Railway! I once travelled from Heckington to Crewe on a through Skegness-Manchester Airport service using a Cl..153 dogbox. But only once!

Basically, before dieselisation in 1962, the Liverpool-Manchester- Halifax- Bradford Exchange- Leeds Central services were mainly portion-worked, with division and joining at Low Moor. They were roughly hourly in each direction, with some gaps. The main train[Liverpool-Manchester-Bradford] was...

Mrs W travels occasionally on the 0445 Holyhead to London Euston. This is a 5-car set, coupled at Crewe with another from Blackpool North. She books on the Avanti website and is usually assigned a seat in coach P, so I'd assumed coaches A-J is the set from Blackpool and K-L from Holyhead...

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I do hope not - the 6 or so minute challenge from arriving at platform 4 approx x50 from North Wales to leaving at platform 1 at x56 for Crewe, over the footbridge and down platform 3B - is quite daunting for the not-so-fleet-of-foot with a heavy suitcase! Far less stress to have the...

Don't apologise! That picture brought back memories of travelling on early BR Derby Lightweight dmus from Bradford Exchange to Wakefield Westgate. Down the hill from Drighlington then weave under the LNWR to Dewsbury Central! Happy days!

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I think its a mistake but I got a text offering me a flu jab last week, and another one this week [I had accepted last week's] Or do they think I'm so decrepit I need two? :)

The new T51 service is now on the TrawsCymru website:- https://traws.cymru/en/services/ACYM/T51?date=2025-09-29&direction=outbound

D Do they still? They are not advertised as such, and with Rhyl-Denbigh now being every 30 mins, Denbigh-Ruthin hourly and the Ruthin-Wrexham section every 2 hours, its difficult to see which buses go through!

Apparently Ken Skates announced yesterday at the Eisteddford at Wrexham that the Rhyl-Wrexham route will join the TrawsCymru network at the end of September. This has been in the planning stage for some time. Service T51 will replace the exisitng 51/X51 services, with the intention of...