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Folks, This may be obvious,however,what would happen with all the virgin employees on the west coast route if virgin lost the tender.I know there is a lot of money in training their drivers on the pendalino and other staff ect. I would imagine Virgin would re-deploy staff were...

Folks, What would happen to the service on the wcml if say virgin trains failed/lost/did not want to renew/ there franchise.Say for instance that no other operator put a bid in for this contract,what would happen to this service,would the government,dft,have some sort of back up plan for...

Folks, a wee question l hope someone can answer. On a long or even short distance journey is the train manager or even csa allowed to visit the train drivers cab mid journey and allowed to keep him company for part of the journey.Must be kinda lonley sometimes being a driver:cry:

Folks, l have recently seen the Mail Train a few times passing Motherwell in the wee small hours.Do Royal Mail still use this service.l thought they had withdrawn it.Anyone shed any light?

Folks, thats me saving up again,my plan is to take a wee trip on the Caledonian sleeper,Glasgow to London,l have never done it before,l was hoping some of my fellow forum users could offer me their opinions on this service,berths,carriges,noise,passengers food and any others stories...

Folks, Saved up my hard earned wages and booked a 1st class ticket for me and my partner on a virgin Glasgow to London service on sat 12 feb. l have travelled many times in virgin 1st class midweek.l find the staff,service,train and whole journey excellent. l was however very...

Folks, l know this subject has been covered a zillions times:roll:(do apoligise) l am traveling 1st class this saturday on virgin Glasgow to London service.l know there is no hot food/sandwiches that are dished out at your seat.Can you attend at the onboard cafe,produce your 1st...

Folk, a wee question l hope someone can answer. When the Caladonian Sleeper arrives in London about 0700 hours,Does it remain there until the return leg that evening or does it travel noth as a standard train with paying passengers?(in the morning) thanks

Folks, l'm no business man however l can't help but observe the amount of materials,scrap metal,steel rails and even electricity that are being stole from Network Rail. l appreciate that it is imposible to have all railway stock taken to a yard but l feel this property is basicaly...

Folks, When companies use Rail Freight to transport their goods,from Say Scotland to England or vice versa is there a minimum amount of containers they must supply for the journey. What l mean is sometimes a freight load has many containers on its load and sometimes one or two,with...

Folks, just a wee ticket question, hope someone can help! l may be wrong, l understand HM Forces get a discount, reduced rate of travel on the rail network. Do other emergency services, police, fire, ambulance also get this discount......curious,:roll:

Folks, My partner told me this story today... whilst on board a train from Glasgow Central station to Whifflet at 1546 hours, she witnessed a passenger trying to purchase a ticket from the conductor. The passenger issued the conductor with a cashline card however her machine declined this...

Folks, This may sound a daft question but could it be possible for someone to steal a loco. Before anyone dials 999 the Lawman in not about to hot wire a train :lol: l was wondering, say for instance a freight loco is parked within its yard, and is not blocked by any other unit...

Folks, l was wondering if anyone on the forum knew if there are currently any Railway programes on the box at the moment. I am interested mainly in locos and traction. l can only watch so many repeats of the stuff you get on sky channels.........Trainspotting, Discover shed...

Folks, what's the deal with people giving trainspotters/rail enuthiasts such a hard time.l can't get my head around it.There are plane spotters,bird spotters,Eddie Stobbart spotters,bus spotters...............l could go on:| l wouldn't dream of slagging someone off just because of...

Folks, Can anyone tell me what happens when rail companies introduce new rolling stock to there network. What happens with the older fleet,which in my opinion is in perfectly good working order?(not all of them) Does it get scrapped or would another company buy it and use it for...

folks, This may sound a daft question..............I'm quite a nosey person.Whilst on long journeys l quite often get whiplash looking out of the train windows either side of the carrige:lol: my question is....could it be possible to fit some sort of camera to the front of the train...

Folks, looking for some information on the old BR Motorail Service. Im interested to know if any fellow forum users had ever worked on that service and also their opinions on it! Also im keen to know the formation of the trains, ie.. how many seated carriages, car carriages, was their a...

Folks... this hit the papers up here.. A Scotrail employee working the Glasgow to Inverness route in his capacity as an onboard caterer.. was found guilty of fraud at Glasgow Sheriff Court. The said employee purchased a huge amount of tea/coffee from the official Scotrail supplier! He...

Folks... were i reside on the West Coast main line, Scottish area, there is a part of this line which runs, lets just say.. through the Scottish bronx..!! (even the taxi's dont stop in this area..lol) Spoke to a friend and also observed this in local press... The Stobbart Tesco train...