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Those of you who work in the industry will know this inside out but for us lay people what is needed to be able to divide/connect trains. (I'm talking primarily about multiple unit-types rather than engine+coaches) Presumably most divisions/joinings are done at major stations or junctions...

I've never understood why there isn't a HST departure from Cardiff - Temple Meads at 7.30-ish, returning from BTM at around 17.30. A quality, "proper" train put on essentially for harrassed commuters so there'd be ample seating and a buffet car would cost FGW buggar all, especially if it...

I'd nominate Stapleton Road. Dirty, run down, very rough area, and a few years ago I saw a junkie shooting up on one of the disused platforms in broad daylight!!! The station has actually become an official interchange point again for people connecting from the Severn Beach line but the idea...

IIRC these were Manchester - Waterloo services via Shrewsbury, Cwmbran, Bristol Temple Meads, Salisbury and Basingstoke in the early days of the Eurostar (what a nightmare journey that must have been!) BTW, talking of that line, does anybody remember a daily Cwmbran - Paddington return...

I was clearing out a drawer and found a pile of pocket timetables from 1993/1994. They make interesting reading. Monday - Friday services showed: The Severn Beach line had a more or less hourly service from 06.00 but the last train from Temple Meads was 20.10 (now 22.15). Cardiff -...

Actually there is - NASA lost the blueprints for the Saturn V rocket back in the 1980s and never found them again!

and isn't its three letter code still HPQ?

Pontypool Road changed to Pontypool then to Pontypool and New Inn....but it still didn't get any more trains!

I've always wondered why they ran via Llanelli rather than go "straight up". Is there track still in situ from Swansea via Pontardulais?

There've been five each way in the past - I worked for a summer in a hotel in mid-Wales in the late 70s and I remember there were 5 trains each way Mon - Sat. They left Shrewsbury at approx 04.00, 06.00, 10.00, 14.00 and 18.00. For a year or two around 1988/89 the 5 each way were supplemented...

This was only ever a colliery line so that probably explains it! Thanks

Hello This is my first posting as I am sure there are people out there who will be able to assure me that I have not been hallucinating for the past 40 years. Every website or reference book says that BR axed steam engines in 1968 (except for Vale of Rheidol etc!). Was this only for...