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Two in Rugby
Railway Club - now LMRCA next to where the old Central Station used to be and The Rugby United Railwaymen's Club & Institute, unsurprisingly in Railway Terrace.
Indeed.
Leominster already has a lesser service than Ludlow despite being (I think) a slightly bigger town.
It also ignores the fact that the Manchester trains provide a valuable connection at Crewe to a variety of places for the very stations this proposal seeks to have the service withdrawn...
The train in question will almost certainly have come from Worcester, thus serving Kidderminster and Stourbridge Junction en route and exactly as Sprinter Guy has said will have been full and deposited the passengers at Snow Hill so that any observation as to how many passengers are on it at...
Romanian sleepers certainly are.
I travelled Timisoara to Iasi last autumn and found myself the only passenger in the entire sleeping car. Coming back I travelled as far as Simeria and there were just 3 occupants. Despite the doubtful economics this and another sleeper still run Timisoara to...
The news page at :
www.sy-country.co.uk/ has a link to a webcam overlooking Wulong Yard at Fuxin in China. Very interesting as steam is still operational there.
I'm not able to give a direct link as the webcam page is in Chinese.
The up to date position with regard to Chinese steam can be found at :
www.sy-country.co.uk/
The news page has a link to a webcam overlooking Wulong Yard at Fuxin. Two SY 2-8-2's were visible working earlier today.
You can book Bucharest to Brasov tickets on line at www.cfrcalatori.ro . It has English translations and accepts UK credit cards. Some trains are not bookable on line but most to Brasov are. The website is a bit clunky but persevere and it works fine. I used it to book a series of trains whilst...
Almost all Northbound freight goes through platform 2. If you want to photograph that the best place is on platform 1.
Some Southbound freight uses platform 5 but the vast majority passes on platform 6. Often freights will wait in the up goods line of which the North end of platform 5 provides a...
The way to do it is splitting at Birmingham International. A return Coventry to International is less than £4 at the times you want. International to Prestatyn via Shrewsbury with no change of train. Dep 11:09 £21. Return Dep Prestatyn 12:45 £18 - again via Shrewsbury. No change of train.
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