• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Search results

  1. Cheshire Rover

    Anyone live beside the railway.

    Not any more, but as a child our garden backed on to the Mouldsworth to West Cheshire Junction line with copious amounts of freight hauled by Classes 25, 31, 40 and 47. Sadly the line closed in the 1990's.
  2. Cheshire Rover

    Threads (infamous TV drama)

    I watched the original broadcast in 1984. I was 14. The background then of course was we were genuinely living in fear of an attack and Threads just amplified that fear. I seem to recall another programme being on just before Threads was broadcast detailing the effects of a nuclear war, could...
  3. Cheshire Rover

    Struggling with shifts

    Surely you have a duty of care to everyone else on the railway to be 100% fit for work? If you are not getting enough rest and your mental health is suffering, you really need to consider are these shifts are right for you. It may be that this job, even though you enjoy it, is not right for you...
  4. Cheshire Rover

    25kv Cheshire Stations

    The same reason Runcorn got such a good service to London, I understand.
  5. Cheshire Rover

    Best pies

    Cowards Butchers in Frodsham. They were even seen on the TV Program Motorway Cops, when it was filmed in Cheshire.
  6. Cheshire Rover

    Barrow Crossings

    The barrow crossing at Helsby was removed years ago and means anyone in a wheelchair or pushing a pram now needs assistance to use the footbridge to access Platforms 2,3 and 4. No replacement lifts.
  7. Cheshire Rover

    Guided Busways

    Indeed, though since Halton Buses went under not many buses use the busways now. Back in the 70's with Crossville etc, they were very well used.
  8. Cheshire Rover

    Annoying television adverts...

    Probably aimed at the same crowd as the 'On The Beach' advert.
  9. Cheshire Rover

    TFW Liverpool-Cardiff

    Realtime Trains still has it 2hr next Monday.
  10. Cheshire Rover

    Fare advice - commuting

    Would an LNER Business Carnet be any use? Seem to be similar to the TFW M Tickets I used to use when I commuted by rail.
  11. Cheshire Rover

    Circular / 'round robin' tickets - What examples exist?

    A Cheshire Day Ranger gives you plenty of choices around Cheshire, Manchester, Wirral and Liverpool with options for most of the routes in the area as far East as Macclesfield etc.
  12. Cheshire Rover

    Is there anything to see/do at Crewe?

    Hack Green isn't too far away, though you will need some form of transport to get there from Crewe..
  13. Cheshire Rover

    EasyJet orders 157 more planes

    More good news for the Airbus plant at Hawarden... Judging by the number of Beluga aircraft flying over our house recently the wing lines must be very busy.
  14. Cheshire Rover

    M6 Toll

    When I was travelling for business regularly I used the M6 Toll road, and frequently saw mobile camera units on the overbridges approaching the Toll Booths Northbound.
  15. Cheshire Rover

    How or why did you develop an interest in railways?

    We has the line from West Cheshire Junction to Mouldsworth line literally at the end of our garden, so seeing huge freight trains pulled by Class 25, 40 and 47 regularly pass by must have has an effect.
  16. Cheshire Rover

    Severe thunderstorms to affect some services 12/06/2023

    Still some delays in the Frodsham area due to signalling damage yesterday evening during a storm.
  17. Cheshire Rover

    Manchester Airport security queues

    There was a suggestion a couple of years back that Manchester was to get pre clearance for the USA. Not sure where that is up to, or whether indeed it is still on the cards.
  18. Cheshire Rover

    Lines that closed with the minimum of fanfare.....

    West Cheshire Railway/CLC branch line from Mouldsworth to West Cheshire Junction. Closed in 1991.
  19. Cheshire Rover

    Eurovision Liverpool, a rail nightmare waiting to happen.

    Looks like TFW have put an hourly(ish) schedule back in place for the day of Eurovision on the Chester to Lime Street route.
  20. Cheshire Rover

    Where did Britain go wrong?

    Perhaps why house prices are up from a multiple of 2.5 times a single wage in the early 1970's to around 10 times now.

Top