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Stations with a service calling after midnight presumably are still open with staff present. Thinking specifically about Peterborough (00:30) and Doncaster (01:40). If the stations are open and staffed, why can't people catch the train if they wish to?

Are you certain it was Grimsby Town and not Cleethorpes? Nowhere to reverse a full length train (locomotive + carriages) at Grimsby Town at that time, and all the 50's/60/early 70's direct trains to/from London went on to or started from Cleethorpes.

Why does the train have to be direct? If you change at Leeds, you can do it for £10.75 or £14.15 with Railcard

Is it common for the seated Sleeper fare to be cheaper than a daytime LNER fare. Sleeper (seated) £29.70 LNER: £33-£40 for an Advance

2 singles cheaper than a return. Much cheaper north to south than south to north. (Sorry for image size. Unintentional) (£88.35 -v- £166.50)

Referring to Post #4, astronomical prices, how about this, referring to Skelmersdale. QUOTE In September 2017, Merseytravel and Lancashire County Council committed £5 million into a study to investigate the possibility of re-opening the station. UNQUOTE. £5M just to talk about it and nothing...

Many Lincolnshire stations on still open lines seemed to close towards the end of the 1950's some years before the elimination of entire lines

Happy childhood memories ... until ITV took away our Anglia TV to give us Yorkshire TV instead, and we weren't even in Yorkshire.

Can anyone identify the location or is the footage of random locations? Was the railway footage a normal part of this programme's opening credits?

As far as I know, up until the 1970's or so, some "Inter City" trains out of King's Cross called at Huntingdon. On occasions this allowed a faster limited stop service to overtake. When did this come to an end with Huntingdon becoming a "local outer suburban" station?

Am I correct in my belief that the National Rail Conditions of Travel state very clearly that a passenger intending to board a train MUST be in possession of a valid ticket BEFORE boarding said train. Boarding a train without a ticket and then attempting to purchase a ticket on your mobile...

I normally nibble on a couple of Scotch Eggs on my train from Yorkshire back to London before I start on my Jaffa Cakes washed down with a Tango Orange

Am I correct in my calculation that there is a total of 4.405 miles of railway tunnel between King's Cross and Doncaster? The longest tunnel being the Potters Bar tunnel some way south of Potters Bar station (1,214 yards) and the shortest being Askham Tunnel between Newark Northgate and Retford...

Is it just me or is this sentence a little oddly phrased? QUOTE Thereafter, the train carrying your parcel will be dropped off at the closest destination station to your recipient. Again, in a yellow BR lorry or van for the last few miles. This would take a day or more. UNQUOTE I read it as the...

If this locomotive had been configured while still on the drawing board for 125mph running rather than 100mph (maybe with the 12-cylinder Paxman Valenta engines, running at 1,500 rpm and developing 2,250 bhp) rather than the 1,650 bhp engines they were eventually given would their replacement...

Wow! Where did all those platforms go. I've seen Spalding recently and it's just got the standard two, one facing the other.

If any sharp eyed member happens to spot the station name anywhere on the image, I apologise for that. Just had eye surgery and my peepers are not so good for now. Scanned the picture from an elderly person's photo album. Nothing written on the back of the photo.

When I select a Single journey, it is £18.15 but when I select a Return journey, the Single price somehow shoots up to £18.80 Journey from Three Oaks to Four Oaks. Apologies for size of image but necessary to read the text.

Just my feeling, but if you get through the initial interview and progress onto a group environment with your fellow applicants, you should expect rather a lot of role playing exercises due to this being a customer facing position. Essential to display a cheerful and amiable disposition, a...

I believe the tripod would cause doubt about whether you were a professional (doing it for a living) or simply an extra keen enthusiast.