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Thank you Mr BT! I have only been on the night sleeper once, as a teenager & that is a story by itself. lol. I am taking a 21 inch trolley case with me. just checking the luggage racks above the seats on the sleeper are the same as we had in the 1970s/90s era as it will fit up there no...

Just me again folks! Bore Da! It is morning as I type this. Bless you all. To update: as already shared; I am booked into the seated carriage from Inverkeithing(INK), to Crew(CRE). I like the 45 minute connection as I can stretch my legs, enough time to buy a coffee from the place which...

Thanks Dan!! Mr Blindtraveler. & the other feedback. You were 1 of the lovely longtime members I was hoping for a bit of feedback from. I always learn a bit from your travelogue thingies you post on here. I really did want the first Virgin from Birmingham in the morning, to be honest. Even...

Hello folks, & can I first apologise to the moderation team if this thread of mine is parked up the incorrect siding as I was not sure whether to put it here, or in the timetables section, or even the sub forum for stations. Just looking for a bit of reassurance to be honest, being a very...

I have been pleasantly surprised with Mrs May as our First Lord of the Treasury, Prime Minister. After all the weak men who followed Blessed Margaret of Grantham into Number 10; it has taken a Lady with balls to start reclaiming our sceptered isle back. I so wish for a STRONG Prime Minister...

This is my 47th year, & not visited London since the late 1990s because, even back then, it was too busy for me. The feel of the place had changed & did not feel my/OUR Capital city anymore. From afar, it has only become worse sadly. I grew up in Birmingham, still have the accent & it certainly...

Mr Greenback, I have heard this from other Welsh natives also. Is it because it is a small town, which has a university/college, & it fails to be all things to all people perhaps?

This allows me to slip into this thread. Thank you. :) I well remember sitting in Glasgow Airport in the 1990s with both my mother & brother, who are both dead, & for sure both I, & my brother were having a pint at 0800 in the bar. Cannot remember what darling mother was imbibing, probably the...

May I just drop by & thank both Mr Rich, & Mr Greenback for sharing what their experiences are of this railway. I am intending on visiting a friend who resides on Pen LLyn[Llyn Peninsula] & I know my friend has been on the Welch Highland Railway, not sure if he has been on this one as far as I...

Surely the Mitchell library in Glasgow, or indeed, the National Library of Scotland will still use older equipment for items which are handed in?

I <think> from reading this forum, going through many old, locked topics that the trains which my family & I used to travel up to Glasgow from Birmingham, to visit our Scottish grand parents was not a "sleeper train" as such, but a <night train>, I would call it? We travelled in the 1970s into...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37406822 I did try & look a couple of hours earlier but nowhere had mentioned this apart from National Rail & the Scotrail website and I had no clue how to post/verify the source of the information. As someone who has survived suicide, and...

Bless him! The confidence comes from experience? Same in healthcare being out on the wards. NO simulators in either sector will ever replicate. We have to be out there, you learn ON the rails, like we learned ON the wards?? I am not going into DOO or how the railway works. I am only an...

I would suggest a wonderful website, VERY similar to this excellent one which is for the whole UK & beyond but: http://districtdavesforum.co.uk The speciality of those wonderful people IS the London Underground as well as other things. I know there is some cross pollination between both...

Blooming heck, I thought it was just us middle aged people who remember MSN messenger & I still have my Hotmail account from way back in the late 1990s. I did learn MS DOS way back when I left school and did YTS office skills. I <allegedly> do have both a Facebook & Twitter account but I...

Love it! So many people get hung up on death & do not mention it in "polite company". I'm not a <god> person to be honest but there is a saying that religion is for people who are scared of going to hell, & life, is for those of us who have been there a few times already. lol.

Here's a thought though. With the speed which technology has & is moving, it has sped up in the last 40 years; say, how long will "smart" payment types last? I can see us having implanted micro-chips somewhere on our person & there goes the argument about having to carry cash around, or a...

I travelled on this line about 5 weeks ago. Travelling to Rishton from Preston on my third train of the day on a Saturday was not a problem. I lost my Pacer "virginity" & found it comfortable. I do love the colour of moquet to be honest. It did feel more "council housing estate" than main line...

I tried to input that station as my arrival a couple of days ago, as one was fenning around with a journey planner. It appeared on the drop down menu of the railway journey planner I used, but came up as a big fat ZERO & would not accept it as a station. Does this mean the taxi service has now gone?

Thank you for holding this vote. I voted no, and how do I justify my vote? I do not like "big government", I am not comfortable with "control". I do prefer freedom & personal choice. Not that we have much in this life. At heart I am more anarchist, or is it Anti-Christ> rather than socialist...