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Passenger: "Do you stop at the Savoy?" Driver: "Not on my wages!" Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

Someone mentioned a while ago, Wakefield drunks fighting Barnsley drunks, on the train, solution, no train Barnsley to Wakefield. Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

Think it originally involved pax returning to Wakefield fighting with other pax. The local trains on both lines were altered or terminated early, including some long distance trains. But as you say it was some years ago and people's general habits have changed since then (when everyone went...

Saw something similar on the Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko website today!

Yes, and didn't know it was going to be on. Nicely rounded off the evening's programmes for me. After a disappointing Christmas menu (TV remaining off), I was not expecting anything for New Year. Not to everybody's taste, but after 7, Nowhere Boys (CBBC), Sherlock, Mrs. Brown, Football and the...

Travelled Leeds to Nottingham early 80s, it was an easy change at Derby. There was a short-lived Leeds to Nottingham service late 80s, no-one has mentioned, it ceased when the new through service via Sheffield & Nottingham started in 1990 (connection at Sheffield for Leeds to Nottingham...

New Pudsey (1967) predated the naming convention but was designed as a Parkway station, it being situated just off the A647/A6120/B6157 junction. It's a short walk to the bus stops and walkable to the nearby areas of Farsley and Stanningley (whose station it replaced) but not that convenient...

Clip here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIWO0MIpFAw&feature=youtu.be

Up to about a year ago, machines used to only take coins and local debit cards, the alternative being a slightly higher price at a ticket office. Now take most credit cards, but I think the ticket system is unchanged. Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

The regional Fiumicino-Roma train doesn't serve Termini, but is convenient for other parts of Rome.

If the trains and rails are built to the same guage, the system could seize up, I guess it was easier at the time to alter the rails rather than already built stock, to give a a bit of give. Confirmation on Wikipedia. The gauge initially proposed by Brunel was 7' 0" (2,134 mm) exactly but this...

The S-bahn to Stuttgart (and to Hamburg) is an extension of the existing network and doesn't run in a direct line to Stuttgart Hbf (but is useful for the city centre). There is a proposal for direct inter city services as part of the controversial Stuttgart21 project. Sent from my 4009X using...

Plus Hull to Leeds via Cas. I'm sure I remember the other platform in use many years ago but not sure what trains stopped there (the Leeds-Sheffield stoppers ran via Altofts at the time). Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

Castleford, all trains use the town side platform. I'm sure the other line could be still used but the overbridge is now blocked off Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

Peterborough-Norwich trains used to change direction but still go forward, just before Ely, but now they reverse at Ely. Bradford-Leeds trains travel in opposite directions, depending on which line Leeds-Hull, depending on if using the Woodlesford-Castleford route or not Sunderland-London...

No it's not, according to my counter! Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

Yes, I think you're right Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk --- old post above --- --- new post below --- I also remember him from Citizen Smith, but even earlier, wasn't he in Treasure Island? Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

All camera films contain a meat-derived product for them to work, a fact not widely known, but largely an irrelevance as digital technology has taken over. Sent from my 4009X using Tapatalk

Originally the 67 ran Bradford - Keighley with some journeys running through to Skipton, with a service 12 running Silsden-Haworth. Renumbering and rerouting saw 663 664 665 as Bradford-Keighley-Haworth then on to Oxenhope, Stanbury and Oakworth, plus 666 668 as Bradford-Sutton-Skipton. 662...

Services that are no longer, even if the routes are still possible; 502 Keighley-Halifax-Huddersfield (there's a very limited service on the middle section between Denholme and Halifax) 653 (?) Bradford-Otley-Harrogate (the 653 has been recently revived by TLC and runs either...