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While not quite as distant as Tehran, this has triggered a memory as a child growing up in early 1980s South Wales. There were a couple of 1st gen DMUs which must have been on loan that displayed maps of regions far, far away. These lands had strange names WMPTE and GMPTE. These lands...

I really didn't have anything that specific in mind when I started to think about the question. I'd been reading about the history of Welsh railways and noted:- 1) that the Vale of Rheidol line had moved from GWR to BR to private ownership, possibly using the same infrastructure and rolling...

Thanks for that, but while it tells me that railways constructed under an Act of parliament are subject to the RoRA, it doesn't say what's covered by the term "railway". For example is it just anything with wheels running on parallel rails (which includes Tramways and Light Railways) or does...

...as defined in the scope of the Regulation of Railways Act. Are trams, light rail/metro systems included? I'm pretty sure that heritage railways aren't, otherwise I'd probably have heard about it. But legally, what actually makes a railway a railway subject to the RoRA- is it defined by...

I though it was just me that did that, if I'm not paying close attention I usually end up on the platform facing the one I actually wanted

What's a CSA's role when it comes to checking tickets/Oysters and how can you tell which is which - different uniforms?

Thank you, this is very reassuring. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- As soon as it became apparent that the inspector had no interest in talking to me again, I got off the train at the next station, touched in and got on the next train to resume my journey. That's what appears...

No details were taken Thanks, I had wondered whether they would have just sent it to the address registered to the Oyster card Absolutely, next time I will make sure I will and try to be more alert and seek out an Oyster reader at any non-gated station

No, never done anything like this before. In over 30+ years of train travel I have never traveled a single mile without a valid ticket

I don't want to go into detail about which stations,dates etc - but it was one where I had touched out from of an Underground station walked at street level before entering the DLR. I definitely was in the wrong, although not with any intent to defraud.

OK, so this a little different to most threads in this sub-forum. A few weeks ago I was travelling on the DLR in Zone 2 with a PAYG Oyster. It was my 2nd journey of the day (1st was Z1 to Z2) and was the 2nd of around 15 tube, DLR and bus journeys I made that day. I heard a ticket...

A replacement footbridge including lifts was built at Shirley (West Mids) last year. It seemed to be complete around 12 months ago (i.e. workmen left site and it seemed complete to the naked eye), but as of a few days ago the entrance to the new bridge was still fenced off. No idea why.

Is actually named after a real person - Sir Herbert Cory

Although I grew up in that area I didn't know that line ever existed - until now! Looking at ariel photos it looks like most of the route is extant, although there is housing built on the section adjacent to the city line.

Queens Drive I think. It survived the 1960s rebuilding of New St although diverted a little to the south. It went up and over the roof of the Pallasades shopping centre passing Stephenson Tower and is/was used as a route for Taxis to get from Hill St to the station forecourt. I don't know if...

Correct, I walked under the Pallasades (where the Newt & Cucumber pub used to exist). I've walked that way many times and it didn't strike me as anything special, just another gloomy pedestrian tunnel which I assumed was opened to compensate those walking between the stations until New St's...

Could you tell me what the Moor St link is please? Last time I walked from Moor St to New St (a couple of weeks ago) I used one of the only two routes I'm familiar with i.e. 1) through the Bullring centre or 2) through the less than appealing road tunnel that's been there since the shopping...

Ah I see. Thanks. I had actually checked for Sundays but the timetable showed no services whatsoever, but digging deeper I see that there is engineering between Central and Queen Street for the next couple of weeks.

I can see that the last train of the day from Cardiff Bay goes to Central (presumably by reversing at Queen Street) but doesn't the first service from Central to the Bay (6:26 to Merthyr) need a change at QS to join the train from Coryton

Central doesn't have a direct service to Cardiff Bay though