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Flashers - "accidentally" forget to press the lock button so you can expose yourself...

Having abandoned the Transpennine Ale Trail a few years ago, we had a go at these instead: http://www.camragreatermanchester.org.uk/#tram

I stood aside to let passengers off the other day and a woman pushed straight past me and forced her way on. Did she not wonder what I was doing, or had I gone all invisible again? :-)

Then you could gaffa tape the hamster to the front of the train to detect flooding

You can use either the right hand or left hand oyster reader to open the gate (As encountered behind a tourist at Liverpool Street the other day :-))

Keep jabbing at the door button even before the light comes on because this will make the doors open faster.

Guards - if you fancy one of your passengers, instead of clipping their ticket, get a biro and draw a circle around the date so it looks like a smiley face. This is clearly an open invitation for them to follow you back to the rear cab...

Swift loco change just before Sutton Bridge and we are off in a Telfordwardley direction

Being held at Welshpool now apparently the Westcoast 37 drivers we need from Shrewsbury were stuck at Crewe. Never a dull moment on this tour :-) Update It seems likely we will be held here for the next two service trains to pass. Anyone for shrewsbury told to get service train so now up loop...

I'm told we are reversing in P4 then going Telford - Oxley Chord - Stafford!

Well, not by pedestrians perhaps... I've got a colleague who lives down there and it is a source of continual amusement to us what happens when you put "whatcroft hall lane railway bridge cheshire" into google :-)

I bet you do, but like me didn't know it had a fancy name :-) See http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/e/ethelfleda_bridge/index.shtml

Loads here :-)

It's a pity as I was looking forward to it, plus I'm keen to support Spitfire as I don't want to see another railtour operator bite the dust. So reading between the lines, is it unlikely that there will ever be a tour doing the Cambrian? (Given they probably need to be >6 to be...

Just got a call to say this will be going to Aberystwyth now rather than Pwllheli due to lack of paths north of Dovey Junction. Timings seem to have changed too, now dep 07:26 at Staly rather than 08:30.

Maria Eagle on the Daily Politics Show now, but more interestingly they used a clip from the advert below to introduce the segment. Aww, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about BR :cry:. vLA7Q-pPQhQ

MEN this morning suggests we may be a little closer to Oysterisation too! http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/transport/public_transport/s/1582337_oyster-cards-on-the-way-at-last-for-greater-manchester-trains-trams-and-buses

I've been keeping an ad hoc photographic record of the changes here

The O'Neills on Euston Road does a Full Irish: Irish Breakfast £7.49 With Irish pork & leek sausages, two rashers of bacon, fried egg, flat mushroom, white and black pudding, beans, potato bread and a grilled tomato Small Breakfast £4.99 With an Irish pork & leek sausage, a rasher of...

Gricers and the more adventurous tour enthusiasts may like to know that the former BLS tour is now going ahead independently and more or less as planned, provisional times below, full details attached. 00:01 Crewe (pu) Chelford Down Passenger Loop Styal Heald Green South...