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06:15 on a somewhat misty Saturday morning, and I'm at Bentley station waiting for the Leeds train. Nice. It's 322482, probably the last time I'll remember the number of the train but it has the new disabled toilet, the door lock possibly not working - no indication to tell if it is, you pull...

What is this called then? according to National Rail it's a Freedom of the North East Rover, according to Doncaster station it's just a North East Rover. Anyway, this is ongoing: 08/02/14. Just get into Doncaster in time to avoid the wind suddenly picking up and it starting to rain heavily...

Went around South Yorkshire on one of these yesterday, for something to do I decided I was going to cover the whole of the network available to me, I forgot how many pacers this would involve but at least the weather was nice ... First train in the morning was the 06:40 TPE to Manchester...

I Suppose it should be; Coast and Peaks Rover plus a travelmaster for the Doncaster-Sheffield part of the journey, but that would be too long. Just got to the end of the 1st three days with a final one at the weekend. Monday 8th The Stainforth business has at least made it easier to get a seat...

I caught the 09:09 from Doncaster to Edinburgh on the 30th October, a 91 & Mk4's with WiFi not functioning in my particular carriage (circuit breaker problem) and an increasingly late arrival time in Doncaster. Was about 14 minutes late leaving and lost some more time until "we managed to catch...

I always thought there was an avoiding line for it, yesterday afternoon was in the NRM looking at the signalling board and a 66-hauled freightliner went through platform 3 (holding up a London train, 1s36 possibly? was around 14:20-ish). Had followed this one on the board & it had come down the...

East Midland 7 Day Rover ticket trip, Contains mild Pork Pie usage ... Saturday: It's always good to walk to town to Farming Weekly on Radio 4, isn't it? Maybe not then, but starting off your trip with a HST from Doncaster to Peterborough is a fairly decent way to do so. There's a charter in...

Might as well get this down while it's still fresh in the memory and while the shoulder still aches from carrying my bag around on it for about 80% of last week ... Sat 2nd July. 5:30am on Doncaster station, and there's surprisingly more people around than I was expecting, there's also a...