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Hi everyone I'm a regular traveller on both VTEC and Cross Country for work and I always travel standard class and I always have a reserved seat. On Sunday, I'm travelling on the 12.00 from Newcastle to Kings Cross and I noticed on the confirmation email sent by the travel booking company...

Hi all I just thought I'd mention this here in case anyone is interested... Back in the 1960s, my father-in-law, Maurice Burns helped form a steam locomotive preservation society - the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) Their initial aim was to buy two steam engines...

Thanks for the info - I'll re-print them this week.

It's probably not as impressive, but there's a spot on the A693 near Stanley where you can see right over Washington, Sunderland and several miles out to sea beyond. There's also the view from the Hartside Top on a clear day. You can see the mountains of South West Scotland around Dumfries...

Just a quick question here. I've got some print at home tickets to use on a trip to London from Newcastle for my family at the end of the month. I like how the tickets have your name on them. I've printed the tickets, but they're double sided (i.e. my ticket on one side of the paper and my...

I see Sunderland on there. Are Virgin East Coast going there yet? I don't recall seeing a VTEC train on the Durham Coast line?

How about the bridge scene from Stand By Me? Also the music video of Aerosmith's Livin' on the Edge. The guitar solo features the lead guitarist, Joe Perry, playing his guitar on a train track while a huge freight train heads towards him. He carries on playing and coolly steps aside at the last...

The Top Gear episode where they had a race from King's Cross to Edinburgh between the Tornado, a Jaguar and a Vincent Black Shadow.

Probably millions :lol:

"A gin and orange.... A lemon squash.... And a scotch and water PLEASE!"

They always have been in my experience. They're always well looked after too - usually at the main dealer, so come with a full service history. Mine gets a full service every year, plus a complementary "health check" which involves topping up fluids etc every time I take it in for something. As...

Thanks very much for the info. Really helpful! I think we'll just use our debit cards. Do I just scan my debit card each time and it charges at the end of the day? Also, how do the children get through the barriers?

I can and I do. I've been driving for 20 years and have a company car which is solely assigned to me. I rack up around 20,000 miles a year and tend to do a couple of long journeys every week. I try to drive where I can unless it's just too far like Cardiff or London, in which case, I'll get...

Hi There Me and my family are coming to London in a few weeks for a couple of days. I use the Tube quite a bit, but my work always pays for it and I just pick up my tickets from the machine along with my train tickets, so I don't have much experience with buying tickets and fares. We'll...

Some shops can be, but people don't always have time to go further afield. If I'm getting a train, I might have come straight from the office by taxi and been dropped off at the station so I don't have the time or local knowledge to go somewhere else to buy something. To be honest, for the...

If I know I'm having a long journey, I tend to buy something before I get on the train - most large stations have an M&S Simply Food or a WHSmith, where you can buy a sandwich and other refreshments. As long as I'm going to eat it within a couple of hours, it's fine. It also gives me the choice...

I remember hearing an interview on the radio with someone senior from the DfT shortly after that awful derailment in Spain which was caused by the driver going too fast. They said that that could never happen in the UK because the train speed is electronically controlled (at least on some...

Just done an image search for it and yes, that's what it was. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity so promptly!

Morning everyone This morning, while driving to work into Newcastle, I noticed a very unusual train leaving Newcastle station heading South over the Tyne on the main line bridge. I was just wondering if anyone could tell me what it was and maybe where it was going? It was hauled by a Class...

There's a signpost on the ECML between Darlington and Durham where the Stillington line joins that says "Stockton" and has an arrow pointing, but I've never noticed a county boundary sign before. With regards he advent of smartphones with built in GPS, it's much easier to work out where you are...