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Chard was worked by the GWR from the north and LSWR from the south. Central station itself was on a joint line which covered only the immediate stretch of track. Even under BR it remained two separate GWR and SR routes with almost no convenient through connections.

I don't think I've seen any mention of the latest DfT publication of the Restoring Your Railways programme update which is dated 18th June and seems to have been published in the past couple of days. Given all the other railway focus at the moment, that would be understandable. The summary...

Warren, with no other distinction - was the stop before New Brighton

My record shows Teesside Airport as from 10/12/2017 reduced to only one Sundays Only Up train Down platform officially out of use from 28 December 2019

Back in the 1970s, we used to store 16 ton MCO mineral wagons every summer on the otherwise disused line north of Thurcroft colliery during pit holidays and due to the generally lower summertime demand for coal. The wagons had to be checked before storage for the type of axle box to prevent...

Ambergate was a triangular station with platforms on all three sides, now one remaining platform on the Matlock branch is all that's left with the main Derby-Chesterfield line missing the platform

TPOs came and went over the years with numerous route changes and network reorganisations, but the end of the TPO nationally was indeed 9 Jan 2004 - the last train in service was the return working of the Bristol Penzance which didn't arrive until the morning of the 10th Jan. The TPO network had...

I forget which pop star has given up trying to correct his own date of birth - there are so many references around to his incorrect one that his own input cannot be correct as it doesn't have enough references

Two copies of Carter's book available on Abebooks website, but only one in the UK - price £25 + £4.75 p&p

I knew somebody would need to know:) I'm not sure what I've done with it, I'm trying to find it so all can be revealed. The GPO rules suggest it was issued by the GPO

Rules & Regulations for officers of the Travelling Post Offices issued by the GPPO in 1927 include the following Rule 5 states: Travelling in Post Office Carriages is permitted only to those whose duty as Post Office Officials takes them there, and to those who are in possession of authority...

There's an excellent book on the subject - An Illustrated History of British Railway Hotels 1838-1983 by Oliver Carter, published by Silver Link publishing in 1990. ISBN for those that need it is 0-947971-36-X It gives details of every hotel including opening and closing dates. Liverpool...

But the GPO sorters inside the TPO had travel passes to authorise them to work on the TPO - the example I have from the 1980s is laminated plastic, approximately credit card sized.

In the 1950s my father was a booking clerk on the Western region - his free travel was restricted to the Western Region only - our holidays were all spent anywhere between Cardigan Bay and Devon and Cornwall, never any of the other coastal resorts. I don't know when that changed to all regions...

As far as I know, the first train of the day begins its public service at General before then turning round to head off northwards to Bidston

Thinking of the Chester area - doesn't the first train the first train of the day, the 06.51 from Wrexham General to Wrexham Central fit the criteria, a journey all of 2 mins, a shorter journey than the Stourbridge shuttle.

The 3ft 6in gauge Nanttle line Caernarvonshire passed to the LMS and then BR remaining horse-drawn until closure in 1963, the last BR horse-operated line http://www.nantlle.com/history-nantlle-railway.htm

The sentence actually does say ½ inch wider than the British 4ft 8½in so it's not Stephenson's doing

I'm just reading a book published in the 1920s - the Railways of the World - which has as its first chapter 'Across the Sea' which includes amongst other topics the then relatively new train ferry from Harwich to Zeebrugge. One paragraph says: The exchange of wagons and vans between European...