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Day 1, chasing 68s. Started bright and early from Birmingham Snow Hill doing the 0609 Kidderminster-Marylebone on 68011 through to London. The late arrival ment a quick dash for 0845 Marylebone-Moor St as it was my 1st winner of the day, with 68014 at the business end. Did it throughout and...

Off work for a week and half, and the half week was spent in Wales. Starting on Thursday 6th Aug, set off from Steeton & Silsden on 333011 to Keighley, took 91107 to Leeds, then 185149 to Man Pic. After a breakfast break, made my way over to P14 for the 0950 to Holyhead with 67022. Took...

Does anyone know which Kings Cross-Peterborough FCC services are booked 317's please. Thanks

After many years of thinking about it, this week I have headed to the East for 3 days. Started from Keighley on the Skipton-London to Peterborough on 43295/316, from there I did 170110 to Ely. From there I did 170205 to Ipswich to scoop in the line from Ely to Bury St Edmunds. From...

I am currently in Jersey for 4 days and the Island lost its railways shortly after the war. But some of the lines are now footpaths. So after landing yesterday, I walked up to St Brelades then walked along the Old Corbiere line. Went to a hotel for some lunch with stunning view of...

Just watched One show. They had a 'Fun' quiz. Question: What was the longest train delay caused by the snow. 6hrs, 11hrs or 4 days. I said 6hrs thinking of the Seaford farce the other night. But they said 4 days.

Currently on one of my Scotland trips, so this is how the 1st 4 days have gone. Day 1: Early start on Saturday morning on 0548 Skipton-Leeds from Steeton, for 0710 Leeds-Aberdeen (43300/367), took that to Inverkeithing, where I am booked into an excellent Guest House. Then headed back to...

Not sure if this should be in this section or the Underground section, but here is my report from yesterday. It was an early start for me on the last day of A-stock in service. Alarm went off at 2.30am and set off about 2.50 to top-up my tank for the journey in Keighley. Had a 3 hour...

Started from Keighley, travelling on the Skip-KX with 43300/295. Then across the Pennines on 185141. Down to Crewe on 323223 (one of the 'dedicated' sets for Manchester Airport services in BR days). At Crewe it was to do the Pendo-drag, but not before viewing the Uk Railtours Southport trip...

Travelled up last night (Wed 15th) from Steeton direct on 1806 Leeds-Carlisle on 158848, to stay in the nearby travelodge. Bright and early start to do the loco-hauled down to Barrow. Plenty of bashers on board, but more importantly plenty of workers too. 37423 on the front and ran to time...

Had a trip to London today (Sunday 29th Jan), taking advantage of the East Coast/Yorkshire Post offer, with the plan to do some winner branchlines & get a few winner units in at the sametime. Did the 1005 off Leeds (43317/290) arriving at Kings Cross around 1230ish. Got my Travelcard from...

On friday, I boarded a XC 170 at Derby, thinking it was 170115, went to the front coach and noticed it was 50111. So at Burton I checked and discovered it was 50111+79115 paired up as a hybrid unit. Makes me wonder if the 2 units have had a dissagreement somewhere and XC have made a good...

After attaching 67003 at Peterborough to 1930 Kings Cross-Leeds, it only made to Werrington Junction before it failed. Earlier it had been reported that loco had ETS problems earlier in the day, & sure enough, soon after departure, the ETS was lost. We ground to halt near the GBRF depot, ETS...

Over the next few weekends (saturday afternoons & sunday mornings), EC services are been diverted via Lincoln, yet despite this, instead of having the 1830 KX-Newcastle stop there, EC appear to have decided that passengers for Lincoln will travel on 1835 to Grantham for a rail replacement road...

I did it last night for the 1st time this year York-York. 45407 performed well and it was a good trip. My only grumble. Nothing to do with the train. Photographers at stations going beyond the 'Do Not Pass this point' sign. Normanton, Castleford & Wakefield Kirkgate it happened.

These were a great success and about £3000 was raised for Macmillian Cancer. Locos featured were 08943 & 57308 running 'top & tail' with 221144. The 1100 & 1400 main trips were fully booked, while the 1245 shorter trip had very few seats left. My trip was the 1400. For the 1st hour &...

Happened tonight (thursday 5th), 91108 had the honur of been the electric loco to work under its own power to Skipton in passenger service on 1803 KX-SKP. Hopefully it teminating at Leeds is now a thing of the past.

Been on the Old Trafford Stadium tour today with my mother. The tour guide explained why one of the stands cant be rebuilt and a chap said to the tour guide; if United are so powerful, cant they move the railway line?.:roll: Then when told they dont owner the railway he followed up by saying...

Was considering then I saw the price. £25.99 Thanks, but no thanks.

Was on Merseyrail for abit today & noticed people smoking on the platforms, thinking they were breaching the smoking ban. But then I noticed there were no 'No Smoking' signs on the stations I visited.