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I note 225Studios has a new cab ride DVD filmed on a Class 121 DMU on a service from Stratford-upon-Avon to London Marylebone. http://225studios.com/11--stratford-upon-avon-to-london-marylebone---2199-389-p.asp Was this a one-off due to unavailability of normal rolling stock? Was it a special...

This is an excellent day out for those who want to spend all day riding around on classic old buses around Bristol and beyond out into the Somerset country! And throughout the day, usually no more than 10 minutes wait for any bus from the Bristol Harbourside main bus stop. I only found out...

Anyone know if the Reading diversions are set to go ahead during Easter 2013? Looking forward to it. Enjoyed the last ones in December 2010. This time I'll do it the other way round. To London Waterloo via Salisbury and Staines. And from London Paddington via Bicester and Banbury.

A lot of us here will of course know tips how to get cheaper train tickets, including the split ticketting technique. But there's a feature on it coming up on the show. Should be interesting.

Only two buses I particularly dislike really. The first is the Wright Eclipse Gemini double decker - the most bland and boring bus I've ever used. Engine sound very boring. Very sterile and lacks any character. I also hate the automatic hooting sound they make when they pull away. And also...

One of the good diversionary routes I remember using back in the late 1990's was between Bristol and Birmingham. Due to planned engineering work, services would take a very interesting and completely different route via Bath, Swindon, Oxford, Banbury, and Coventry. I can't recall if the...

Who do you think will win the new Greater Western franchise? First Great Western Stagecoach National Express Deutche Bahn I think it will be First Great Western again. Simply because they've been running it for so long now, and I can't really see another operator taking over...

I have booked to goto Amsterdam on Megabus in September. The total cost for the return trip from Bristol an outstandingly good value at just £2.50!! It's incredible that for such a trip like this is cheaper than I'd pay for a single ticket about 4 miles into Bristol city centre on First...

Living in fantasy land here I know(allthough it's not exactly impossible or far fetched). But which old buses would you most like to see replica buids being produced and brought into service across the UK? I would go for a Bristol VR. If I had my way I'd like to see them built exactly as...

Well not strictly all buses, but some of them do anyway. This type of bus here http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbbuspics/6884102250/ is one of the main offenders. Allways has the heating on however warm it is outside, only two openable windows at the front of the bus(why not more windows...

By Cross Country services, I do refer to the North West/North East/Scotland-South West England services, also including the services to Reading, Southampton and Bournemouth.. Since the Voyagers took over the HST's and Class 47's on these services, things have gone downhill with many services...

I started going to some bus rallies last year. Something I wish I'd have done years ago, as it gives good opportunity to ride on buses I remember riding on back in the good ol' days - when buses had much more character than the modern buses nowadays. Things like Lodekka's, VR's, RE's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjG_gUs6xFQ This video I found here puts into contrast just how much the atmosphere of the London Underground has changed in the past 10 years or so. Before then it was quieter and felt more of a relaxed environment up to what it is now. Hardly any...

I know there's another thread about the IEP trains. But this one is started to talk about specifically what the seating conditions of these trains could be like, rather than all the other aspects of these trains. With the upcoming IEP trains, I'm a little concerned that the seating could...

A much missed part of travelling on the railways is jointed track. There must be hardly any of it left nowadays. Does anyone know which lines still has it?

Does anyone know the specific London Midland services which uses Class 321's during the current timetable? I am particularly interested in the Weekend workings. But if anyone's also got the info the weekday workings too, then that would be helpful to others as well. Thanks.

http://www.londonmidland.com/news/latest-news/go-anywhere-on-london-midland-for-just-10-a-day Sounds good. But where on their website can you download the special voucher?

When I used to use c2c, the so called "Quiet Zones" were a joke as hardly anyone took notice of them. What with people gosipping away on their mobiles loudly, and business people discussing the days events at the office, and chavvy teenagers playing awful rap music through their mobiles...

With the last Valenta engine'd HST likely to be replaced within just a matter of months now, is there likely to be anything special planned before it goes? Like a railtour, or at least an advertised scheduled service that it will be working? I know that they are still being used by Grand...

Let's get a list complied of what interesting changes we can expect on UK railways over the next few years. All conveniently in just the one thread. A few to start things off, which I can think of just now. - some Class 455's moving to services on the south coast this year. - Class...