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So here is my first trip report! Here goes.. So it started a few weeks ago when fellow member Trainboy98 (Cal) told me on Facebook that he is coming up my way on the 29th and would I like to meet up (having met up twice before in London) so I said yes and we organised a plan and a little...

Hi I am going on holiday to South Wales in August (17th out, 31st return)and will be going on the train via London and I will hold the following tickets: Chester-London Terminals 1st ADVANCE London Terminal-Pembroke Dock 1st ADVANCE Pembroke Dock-London Terminals 1st ADVANCE London...

Hi all I'm going crazy over this but I've been renovating our quite large garden for my mum and dad and I have cleared tons of weeds, plants and rubbish, cut down loads of trees and then made a new compost heap, a load of vegetable beds, new shrubs, flower beds and built a new greenhouse. Where...

Hi I am planning to do a Cheshire day ranger trip on one Saturday and was looking to see if I can get reservations if on a ranger ticket. Upon summoning Google, Red spotted Hanky gave me this: My question is, how do I go about obtaining reservations for the trips I will make? I will be...

Hi all, I'm needed in Alfreton tomorrow and am looking for some fare advice and see if I can beat £20.60 for an off-peak return from Helsby to Manchester then an off-peak return from Manchester to Alfreton. I am going at around 7 in the morning from Helsby and leaving on Sunday the 9th at...

Hi all, I recall reading in an issue of RAIL that there is a door leading to the staircase going up to the top of the clock-tower at St Pancras. It just listed whereabouts this door is and whats there and it reads as if it's somewhere you are allowed to wonder up to. I'm in London and...

Hi I need to collect some tickets for travel later on and will be on my own but will I need to enter a PIN when I collect the Prepaid tickets from the machine at Chester, or is it a case of inserting the card, waiting then taking it out? I am using a card that I have forgot the PIN to. Also may...

Hi I have been looking online at some fares and I am wondering about excess fares. They look very confusing and the internet nor this forum has given me any real understanding. Is anybody able to please tell me when they can and cannot be used and when they should be used? So what tickets can...

Hi all, If I held an anytime day return from Capenhurst to Manchester Oxford road, would it be valid on the 06:04 from Capenhurst to Hooton, then the 06:27 to Ellesmere port then on the Helsby train and onwards to Manchester from there? Would it be valid coming back via Chester on the way...

20 years ago today, 20th March 1993, a bomb was placed in 2 bins in Warrington town centre. 2 Children were killed, one person died a year later and over 50 more were injured. This day has a very poignant meaning to my family, my nan, grandad, mum and dad were heading up to Warrington that...

Crossrail receives its new roundel on the 12th of March and it's a purple one this time! I received information from my uncle who is the head of electrification for the crossrail project and I enclose an image of the roundel which I found online. Looks ok I think, what do you reckon?

Hi everyone, I have a camera (Samsung WB150F) and it is a 14.2 Megapixel but the thing is, it takes the poorest quality photos out of all cameras I've ever had and I am a bit upset about it as it was my christmas present and I chose it thinking it would be really good but I am very...

Hi all, Some of you may recall a thread I made a few months ago and I mentioned that I like collecting tickets and just like to keep masses of them. http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=72750 Well I am extending my collection and I now collect all ticket types as opposed to just...

Hi All. I wish to keep this as my main one thread to share all my bus pics from all over. I will upload my bus pics into this thread when I have some to share rather than keep creating a new thread each time. Thanks :D...

Hi there I have come back from a brilliant London trip and met Trainboy98 whilst down there and I took loads and I mean loads of photos of trains, buses and other transport. I also went to Hatton cross and took loads of pictures there of buses and aircraft including the 380. I arrive at...

Hi all, I have a little query and just want some of your opinion on something that happened yesterday on my School bus to home. Our school bus is an Olympian, and it is forever breaking down or has problems. Yesteday at the school, the doors wouldnt shut and he kept mashing the button and it...

Bonjour, I have the London-Brighton pack which I brought a while ago and not had chance to play it, well I played it today and started up the first scenario and did what it said, waited at Preston Park then proceeded to the red signal then it told me to press tab, so I did and waited about 2...

Hi all I present to you my second set of videos for my Youtube channel and this time it's for my trip to Stafford on the 22nd. I wont be creating a new post for every video after my 10th set of videos, I'm only doing this to get my channel going with a decent turnout of views. So here are my...

Hi all, I am compiling a list of all train services that involve reversals for a little thing I'm doing and I need a little help with it, but I need to know the reversal points and how many time it reverses. I already have a list but any help is very much appreciated. My list is...

Jack Klugman known for his role as Dr Quincy in old tv program Quincy M.E has sadly passed away at the age of 90. I watch ancient repeats of Quincy M.E, and I can they are brilliant. A true T.V star sorely missed. RIP