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A friend and I spent a Saturday at Preston shortly after that - to say it was chaotic would be an understatement! To reduce engine changing in the station Blackpool-Scotland trains ran via the East Lancs, Lostock Hall, Farington. But it was taking an hour or more such was the congestion. So we...

Sunday cemetery (and special hospital) services used to be quite common. Though this is a rare survival. And 35 minutes seems about right for walk to grave, lay flowers, ponder life, walk back to bus stop.

Thousands of railway books have been published over the years but one huge gap is "Assistance Required: a history of banking and related matters" {title may need some tweaking}. A comprehensive record of where it was done, why it was done, and how it was done.

I have a theory. The L&Y/ Northern Lines/ Manchester Division offices were - were they not? - at Hunts Bank, opposite Victoria station. Immediately adjacent to Chetham's School & Library (which are still there, though the railway offices are long gone). Was "Cheetham" (it's often mis-spelt)...

Only doubt - woiuld a "manufacturer of metal products" be interested in salvaging huge tonnages of scrap? Also the phrasing of "Cheetham have placed contracts" reads as though it was Cheetham placing, rather than securing or tendering for, the contracts. All rather puzzling.

A friend of mine worked for a major pharmaceutical company which had such an arrangement. As a manager he was supposed to use the "suits" section but - being a principled, egalitarian type - he chose to use the "boots" section. It didn't last long as his lunch was one long session of the staff...

More people will want to take leave in July than in February. On that basis if you have staffing high enough to cover everything in July without overtime you are going to have excessive spare cover in February. Or you need to persuade people (or force them) to take annual leave at unpopular...

In the days when train planning documents were prepared on paper, then passed to a typing bureau, then passed back for checking before going to the reprographic bureau for printing ... 'stet' was a widely-used term! 1786913962 Off-topic, but I was once Clerk to a small, rural parish council...

A pretty good first draft, but a few observations: Insert their reference number. Do not refer to "reasonable" administrative costs; they are not going to get into a discussion on the subject. Not sure about your sentence regarding your financial circumstances as that is neither relevant to...

Almost certainly, yes. Just pay what you owe and don't do it again.

There will be better experts along shortly, but to give some initial response based on past cases: Firstly, that it is SWR is good news as they tend to be open to settling out of court if you co-operate. To turn to your individual questions: 1., Yes, it's serious - shouldn't be disastrous...

Isn't ADEX Advertised rather than Additional? As opposed to an unadvertised Charter? And HALFEX used to be widely used (Half Day Excursion) and I think EVEX (Evening Excursion) was also used.

I think this may have been an early scoping exercise and working in broad terms - 4m tons per annum, across - say - 312 days (ie. 52x6), gives around 12,000 tons daily using six trains each way. Had the project continued there would, no doubt, have ben further meetings and further refinement...

If true, that would be rather ... surprising!

Many thanks. Sounds like good luck that we were going the other way!

Does anyone know what loco worked today's (Monday 10th) 4F52 1658 Basford Hall - Ditton, and how/why it seems to have lost 2 hours between Weaver Junction and Sutton Weaver?

If not already mentioned, buses serving Chester Zoo operate are on private land from pretty much when they leave the A41.

This would be my suggestion too. Announce the problem before departure and offer two options: Travel on Lumo with toilet stops (and a partial refund). OR Travel on the next Avanti service to Scotland (Lumo paying). It might concentrate minds at Lumo.

We were caught up in this (but got off lightly thanks to TfW running close to normal into/out of Piccadilly around 1530) but noticed one oddity. From (at least) 1500 there was a 1Z99 showing on Open Train Times on the Up in the Chelford area. It was still there when we left Stockport at 1601...

As others have pointed out, not sure what reciprocal benefit could be offered by DRS. They're not exactly going to offer other TOC traincrew a ride on a Crewe-Sellafield!