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Fareham too. Last place I heard a bell for approaching train was Fratton but it went a few years back.

My logs are long lost and whilst I can remember a few very brisk runs behind 50s out of Paddington and a memorable Sunday night bash back from Salisbury, the one run that sticks in my mind was behind a DMU. Class 101 on a replacement out of Carlisle on a fast run south non-stop to Preston circa...

A really good news story - well done etc.:lol:

Thanks for the replies. I used to pay between £6-11 each way on advances for that journey up to Jan 20 so the current prices were a bit of a shock. The travel would be midweek late lunchtime out and last train back. The only prices I saw for the Jan trip was £48 off peak return and maybe a...

Sorry if this is a bit of a silly question. This is a journey I used to do quite regularly but not since lockdown. Always used to have no problems picking up a cheap advance but checked for journeys next month and January and none available. Is this now a permanent thing on this route or as a...

Hinton Admiral was my local station in those days. I remember getting up early doors for a trip to Kings Lynn and getting there by about half ten or so!!! Another year was spent shuffling between Salisbury and points west nabbing 50’s - that was good. Relatively short journeys to “new” little...

The above dit about Crewe works reminds me of a RCTS depot visit early in 1986 where I was shouted at when I tried to take a photo of the Class 89 under construction. Of course I doubled back away from the guided tour a minute or so later and snapped away to my hearts content.:D I have...

I did a lot of spotting in the Eighties and was based near Watford and then moved down to Bournemouth but Chesterfield had a national reputation back then for unfriendliness. Only went there twice myself and had problems both times the second time the t**t actually tried to grab my camera case...

For a while circa 1988-89 if you had a Network Card you could upgrade to 1st class for just a quid more any day of the week! I worked for myself in those days (and a lot of my work was weekends) so I treated myself to many trips up from Hinton or New Milton to town in those very nice...

I used to live next to an embankment just outside a busy station. The train noise you get used to, since the demise of slam door stock its pretty regular and not too bad - late nite slams used to sometimes wake me up. Engineering works are a different kettle of fish. Major scheduled work you...

86246 was named by the Queen Mum who famously mispronounced it as the Royal Anglican Regiment to general merriment - God bless ‘er. :D

Off topic slightly but it certainly happened in the Print in Watford back in the sixties and seventies and it was entirely union driven.

Nope the standard off peak day return.

Used to do something similar a few years later. Mind you the fare now is £13.60 which equates to £1.11 in 1974 money.

If they were doing face masks they’d make a bomb!

Don’t have a Facebook account - simples!

Yes it was wonderfully seedy when I used to spot there, often on Friday/Saturday evenings back in the eighties. Smoky Peaks, parcels, newspapers, clattering DMUs (at least before the BedPan electrification). Interesting characters in the bar, although we often preferred the York Bar at the...

May I just add my thanks too for posting that report - fascinating.

I think they should make all those notoriously jolly staff at Blackpool N Pole dress in appropriately festive clothing - but they won’t all be allowed to be the Grinch.