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Hi everyone, A friend is supposed to be traveling from Exeter St Davids to Paddington with an AP ticket this evening. However, he's lost the ticket, but still has the booking email confirming payment for the journey, seat reservation and the train he's booked on. Will it be possible for...

To the best of my knowledge, there are six or seven 508s in store at Telford International Railfreight Terminal. Their last user was Southeastern trains. Does anyone know what will happen to these units, or will they be stored indefinitely?

Hi all, This afternoon I went to my local branch of Aldi to buy some alcohol for a get-together at a friends house. Anyway, at the checkout, the cashier asked me for ID, so I showed her my driving license (it's in a transparent sleeve in my wallet) but she asked me to remove my driving...

Hi everyone, After uploading my CV to a recruitment site I received the following job offer, which is clearly bogus as it's basically asking whoever applies to be a money mule. Read more about it here: http://www.bobbear.co.uk/EFS-Capital-Group-Inc.html Here is the email word for word...

http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm Read some of the stories on there and weep. KCNA makes Fox look like a paragon of unbiased reporting

I've noticed on SWTs 158s that the passenger door adjacent to the drivers cab is now marked as 'emergency exit only' in the passenger saloon, meaning that there's only one door in the leading coach from which passengers can board or alight. Is there a reason why this is the case? Apparently...

Hi everyone, this is a preliminary write up of yesterday's events. Since I didn't note train times during the Zone 1/2 challenge please feel to correct any mistakes I make. I turned up at Romsey station at 08:55 and bought an OP day return (with YP railcard) including a zone 1-6 travelcard...

Today at around 16:00 I noticed a 150 in Centro livery in use on a passenger service from Bristol TM? Does anyone know whether it's on loan to FGW?

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8212614.Bus_route_appeal_thrown_out/?ref=mr Note that the judge who threw out the defendent's appeal states that 'In 1969 Lord Beeching caused the closure of the 128-year-old railway line between Fareham and Gosport'. Dr Beeching never recieved a peerage...

I've looked at FGW's timetable number 24 and on weekdays there's a service departing Exeter at 09:33, calling Tiverton Parkway, Taunton, then running semi-fast via Western Super Mare to Bristol TM (arriving at 11:13) then semi-fast to Cariff Central. Is this service HST operated, operated by a...

On Friday 11 June I'm travelling from Exeter St Davids to Bristol Temple Meads. Will FGW's loco-hauled service still be running from Taunton to Bristol TM? since if it is, I might change trains in Taunton just for the benefit of riding on an LHCS service. Thanks, Tom

At about 10:40 today I was walking past Riverside Yard in Exeter when I noticed a rather unusual train: it consisted of three coaches in Network Rail yellow (two Mk1s and one Mk2D) top and tailed by two 31s, one of which was painted in Intercity Swallow colours and the other painted in NR...

At around 15:30 today at Romsey station, I noticed two DB 66s top-and-tailing about 11 to 15 ballast wagons as I was walking past the station. So I walked onto platform 1 (where Salisbury-bound trains depart) the platform to investigate, saw the train at the westward end of the platform, and...

Today, I got the 12:50 service from Romsey to Southampton Central, which was running 10 minutes late and was a 3-car 158. When I arrived at Southampton Central, I discovered that all electric services to Portsmouth Harbour (this means, Southern services to Victoria and Brighton, along with...

From what I'm aware, 150s and 153s are used on Tamar Valley Line services. However, since FGW use ex-Northern 142s on Devon Metro services, I'd be interested to know whether 142s/143s are also used on Tamar Valley services. By the way, I'm not a pacer fan.

Hello all On behalf of a friend here at uni I've tried looking for cheap tickets (with a Young Persons railcard) between Exeter St Davids and Worthing on either the evening of Friday 18 December or the morning of Saturday 19 December. All the advance fares appear to have dissappeared, and the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm Obviously the rich **** had nothing else to do...it's funny nonetheless.

Mods - feel free to move this thread since I'm not sure where to start it. I've watched the video to Bloc Party - I still remember http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDdEAmsNBE&feature=channel. At the start of the video you see Canary Wharf and a DLR train heading in the opposite direction...

As someone who despite being 18, has never had a girlfriend and has only asked a girl out on a date once (and was rejected), I thought I'd start this thread if you're looking for a relationship, have been rejected or never been in love. Thanks, Tom

At around 14:10 today I saw in Exeter Riverside Yard two DBS 66s with one VGA van and (I presume several, because I could only see one) hoppers marked with "Imerys", so I presume the train I saw was a china clay train. I'd be interested to know where that train was going to go, and whether it's...