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I've had an earth shattering idea......get ready for it.....why not just leave it there? What is the major obsession with moving it cocooning it or whatever? If it can't be cut up for scrap - just leave it. Its in the middle of nowhere, its not going to affect anybody. Surely the people...

The failure of many of the proponents on here for privatisation is they forget that BR in comparison to the current crop of private operators never saw ANYWHERE NEAR the subsidy figures that are now seen. So what is happening is the state is subsidising a generally foreign-owned (if thats a...

Don't get me wrong, I'm an advocate of the rails being run not-for-profit. Cut the middleman out and run them ourselves. We know how to do it and when run properly, we don't have ulterior motives such as the deadweight loss of delivering profits as the reason for operating. I just want to...

Well if mountains and oceans have moved maybe not, but otherwise I'm sure it'll be business as usual...:D

Some good stories here.. As in..the crash??

It would be a damn sight more efficient when you aren't taking HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF POUNDS out of the rail industry per year. Lets not forget these sums are PROFIT - after any of the risk that you account for. You've got to remember that these companies are investment vehicles - and...

Brilliant :lol:

In response to you wellhouse, it may well be cheaper to do a ticket from the cross to Doncaster and then a separate ticket from Doncaster to Grimsby, but most of my travels involve me going deep into Southeastern territory and as such it is always cheapest to get an advance ticket for the whole...

I see, thanks for the concise reply. But that it is one of my points - the route planners on any site don't even recognise the route from Grimsby to Doncaster. In fact, if you select to travel 'not via Lincoln or via Doncaster', it says 'no tickets available'. But the standard open is...

Was just looking at journeys from Grimsby to London - apparently now eastcoast (and anywhere else for that matter) will only supply advance tickets via Newark Northgate, i.e. the hourly route from Grimsby to Doncaster has no advance tickets (which is an hourly early till late train in both...

Pretty sure I saw trees growing between those containers at Barnetby! So yeah...long, long time. But then again Barnetby does look like something from another century.

Eyy don't knock yourself khib, just use http://splitticket.moneysavingexpert.com/tool.php then you can be a 'brain' like me 8-)

You can save £1.10 by buying a Grantham to Donny, and Donny to York. Don't know about any better than that though!

The Trainline....the company that is successful for charging people more that necessary for their tickets! Worth 300 million they say - what a joke.

91 being pushed by a 66 for your informations! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ztB-AIWxs

Anybody have any idea why there is a TSR at Hitchin? The restriction may well be older than the solar system now... Is it a Hatfield-esque concern or something? Used to be pretty impressive flying round that bend at whatever speed the trains used to do! cheers

Yeah, sit in the rear of a 91/Mk4 combo and everytime you pull off with the 91 behind you it just rams into coach B or whatever. As said, careful with your tea! It does though appear to happen when doing 125 ish....not sure if that is sudden acceleration, breaking or wheelslip tho.

Disruption expected until 28th! These points made out of gold owned by Lord Lucan or something? Or need to be delivered to earth by some sort of being from outside the solar system?

Ah ok, totally agree :)

Lincolnshire is a huge county, with the population spread over a large area with compared to the distribution in most of England. Pity stops or whatever you would like to see Grantham, Newark and Retford (granted not in Lincs but still..) as, actually do happen to serve beyond their immediate...