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    Spanish Narrow Gauge West of Bilbao

    https://www.renfe.com/es/en/suburban/cercanias-am/horarios is the place to start, though it's a journey planner and not a timetable. Screenshot attached of Ferrol - Ribadeo enquiry. Clicking on the [>] button below 'Paradas' gives you the intermediate times, as in second screenshot. I travelled...
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    Transpennine woes and a moan...

    Some years ago I was on a train (the train) Heysham Port to Lancaster. A group of four Canadians had come in on the ferry from the Isle of Man. They had an email confirmation of their tickets from Heysham to Glasgow. But no tickets - this was pre smart phones and there was no ticket machine at...
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    Trivia: UK rail service with most booked stops in one journey?

    When Regional Railways had a Wales-and-West operation, there was an through Exmouth - Crewe working via Swansea and the Heart of Wales line. Alas, I can't remember the year.
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    Trivia: Most ridiculous through trains?

    I think there was a northbound one which started at Exmouth, via Exeter, Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea and the Heart of Wales line to Shrewsbury.
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    Avantix Traveller NFM 18 - Free download

    I've just downloaded the latest version and installed it. But when I run it, I get the same error message as a previous post: Did anyone manage to resolve this problem? I'm running Windows 8.1.
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    Trivia > stations with "hidden" (but working) platforms?

    Worcester Shrub Hill platform 3 - hidden at the far end of platform 2.
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    Trivia: Single rail journey with most scheduled station stops.

    Before the Wales and Wessex franchises were separated, there was a working via the Central Wales line that started at Exmouth and finished at Shrewsbury. Probably did all stations, but I'm not sure of the actual count.
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    FGW service fails to turn up at Brighton!

    My other half did Worcester - Brighton on Tuesday of this week, and would be coming back on the through working today except that the departure was too early for her purposes.
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    Wires Down between Carlisle & Lockerbie

    I'd echo the previous post about information at Glasgow Central. We were there earlier in the day, trying to travel to Birmingham. Very nice people from Virgin at platforms 1/2, but with no information about what was happening. We'd sat in the cafe considering our options via various websites...

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