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Is this a game related to Mornington Crescent ?

When that was my life - inter city rail and tube, week in week out - I lived out of an Antler trolley bag which had more than enough room for 7+ days work clothes, evening clothes and running kit. I carried my laptop in a rucksack pack by Nomad which also had shoulder strap or simple handle to...

"Inverness direct via Mossend" reminds me of boarding a Fort William + Inverness Sleeper at Crewe in 1982. Only the Fort William portion had any seats (just 4 compartments with a Guards van) and a few non-berth passengers in there needed to change to the front portion before the detachment...

The original station is sadly missed.

Thanks for that confidence, the 1234 has set off from Wick so looks like problem resolved 8-)

OK. That suggests taken out of service and driven empty to Lairg? or is the line in the far North effectively blocked for Thurso and Wick?

Any ideas what causes traction equipment failure on two trains simultaneously many miles apart? 2H60 Wick to Inverness and 2H61 Inverness to Wick have both cancelled mid journey with that explanation on Real Time Trains. (one at Georgemas Junction and the other at Lairg) (my interest is...

Galashiels in the Scottish Borders used to, if I recall correctly, be a bus served destination with two timetable entries - one for travel via Berwick-upon-Tweed (East Coast) and one for travel via Carlisle (West coast). Now just the one bus link to Berwick-upon-Tweed after the northern...

Nil traffic now ... but Waterloo to Weymouth Pier, running down the harbour road amongst the parked cars; back in the day was great to see with a bell ringing on the front. March 2019 I visited Weymouth after decades away and those memories brought cheer to the older pub occupants ;-)

From memory, when living there and booking through fares to the central Borders ... different rail-link routes had different station designators? - Galashiels Bus Station (XAA) is still there attached to the East Coast at Berwick-upon-Tweed and I seem to recall there was (pre-Borders Railway) a...

I think there are some practicalities too ... When my local rail station was Berwick-upon-Tweed and I chose to start or end my London rail journey by bus on the (formerly rail-link) service linking Berwick to Galashiels in the Tweed Valley, the bus varied its station timing points over the...

All of which assumes a customer with money to spend ... safeguarding or creating some of them is perhaps the critical step on a road to recovery ? ( I visualise the Nottingham Castle bailey market in Robin Hood's time as the laws of business )

Hmm ... the British pint restricted to those on unemployment benefit, furlough wages or a pension; not sure that would seem fair to the rest of the workforce; prime time for online meetings in my (home) office those hours are.

You could run York to Edinburgh services in their place? ... assuming also you stop some of the London to York "extras" that use southern half of the ECML capacity. ( or some Doncaster to Edinburgh )

yet I recall the single bay smoking "compartment" at each end of GNER cross-border services during the time Scotland had banned it and England hadn't ... perhaps the Northbound train will pull up at Berwick-upon-Tweed station and an announcement invite all non-mask wearers to alight ?

It is helpful to see debate - Commuters could be asked to check their temperature - about how a return to more travel by train could work in the New Normal yet I wonder how taking my temperature will protect fellow passengers in the days I am infectious between my own infection and Covid...

If I recall correctly it was between platforms 4 & 5 when first installed?

Bristol TM first class lounge ... at the other end of the temperature scale, had a coal fire and waist-coated steward as late as 2009 if I recall correctly.

Yes ... it has been a (shiny, new) 331 on most of my recent rides at that time (2N61) ... yet unable to confirm what was allocated today

With Real Time Trains reporting a train fault (M8) today 4th March on the first of my two commute to work Northern Rail services (2N61) - I am keen to better understand what took so long to fix - any ideas ? fortunately I have been able to work from home for the day instead, since it appears it...