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Pre-pandemic there used to be a 06:03 Doncaster-Lincoln service, usually saw it stored in Platform 2/6/7 at Doncaster overnight. It'd run non-stop to Sheffield, sure I've been told this was because of lack of space in Sheffield overnight at the time. Haven't been early from Doncaster for a while...

I've told it before, I did an All Line Rover in 2011 and stopped off in Battle on the first day (I'd done Doncaster-London-Canterbury and was going back to London via Dover and Hastings) for a look round. The train I was going to catch back to London was cancelled so there was a half hour wait...

Alcohol may have* been involved, but I once got off at Rotherham Central ... nodded off, woke up as the train pulled in and didn't recognise the station (this would be around 2016, when it had been extensively rebuilt) so I thought I'd ended up somewhere like Scunthorpe! Staggered off the train...

Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely

Haven't used them for the sandwich deal - or indeed, anything, although the one in Doncaster's shopping centre is over two levels and a useful shortcut - for a few years. Ever since I did a North West Rover in 2017 and had issues with the Meal Deal at two separate stations - Manchester and...

Was only last week a few of us were on about it in the pub, someone went in for handwash and there wasn't any in stock, another knew someone who worked there until recently and by the sounds of it was encouraged to look for a new job about 6 months ago because things weren't looking that good...

I was looking at recreating some form of train accident, involving a train from London Marylebone, with a load of toy trains that were being arranged to represent the 3 or 4 different services leaving Marylebone that were involved in this accident. It didn't look a convincing service, a mixture...

I'd have said Doncaster to Lincoln for that sort of thing (after you've left the ECML), or maybe Sheffield-Cleethorpes via Brigg, which doesn't have that many trains; ticked that one off a few years ago and can't say it was that spectacular a journey. Leeds-Bradford Interchange has been...

I was coming back from a work meeting with a couple of colleagues, we were coming back on the MML on what looked on the inside like the seating layout of a Sheffield Tram. We stood in the middle coach, looking at a line to our left and a lot lower down. There was a new line being built to link...

I was waiting for a parcel that was coming by train, I wanted to find out what was happening so watched the journey on computer. Google Streetview now seemed to be available for trains and you got a view from the outside, which you could look at from earlier, like it had recorded the whole ride...

Yes, I used to commute from Chesterfield to Doncaster around then and there were problems from late September 2019 to Christmas, some of these were as a result of the weather; the worst being early November, where the line was flooded near Rotherham and between Mexborough-Conisbrough, but there...

Sleaford Mods - UK Grim

Responded to something over this in January, hadn't really noticed at the time as I was getting back to my local station so was turning up just before the train was due to leave. Have used it a few times this week and ended up arriving maybe 15-30 minutes before my train - depending on breakfast...

Think the amount of "where there's blame, there's a claim" style legal firms these days might be partly behind that. Sure there were similar frozen lake story's when I was young, some 30-odd years ago; Person dies in a frozen lake, a day or two later the news reports on people still doing it...

Been on holiday this week, out on trains most days so inevitably this seems to have prompted one: A friend was taking me to Leeds early in the morning, before regular services start, instead of going in a car he'd got a powered trolley that was wide enough for train wheels to be put on. We...

One of my regular pubs in town is Cash Only, has signs on the entrance door and inside saying where the nearest cash point is, and still gets people wanting to pay by card :lol: Went to a pub in Leeds the other day, they were card only but the sign was right at the top of bottle shelves behind...

A Swan, somewhere down South (possibly Christchurch), was sat by a river and one swam up to me, got out of the river, waddled up and lunged at me. I got up, walked off, and it continued to follow me for a few minutes o_O Was eating a McDonalds burger & fries in Aberdeen years ago and had a...

I'll probably end up adding some more, but off the top of my head (walked/cycled/both): Bentley Town End-Toll Bar (North Doncaster) Thorpe Marsh Conisbrough Viaduct-Balby-Lakeside The Transpennine Trail, Toll Bar to Hadfield, plus the extension to Stocksbridge Cortonwood colliery (around half a...

Hatfield and Stainforth Before: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392620041149 After (this makes it look better than it is ... ): https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3464131

Had a nap yesterday afternoon and had the railfan equivalent of one of those falling dreams; I was walking along a station platform, some work was being done on the platform so the edges were a bit lower than the rest of it, and as I walked along the platform I walked to the edge and took a...