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I always travel long distance in first class because I don't want to travel in cattle trains.

I remember the last remaining holiday special from Sheffield to Scarborough on summer Saturdays being a pacer back in 93.it did the run in two hours and ran via Ponte, non stop to York. Then non stop to Scarborough. The two carriages were usually packed to the proverbials. But they kept time...

I have just seen the press release for the new December timetable where its announced that trains will be up to 17 minutes faster and 68 minutes from London to Parkway. Seventeen minutes faster than when? It was faster from London to Parkway 30 years ago. Public money has spent an absolute...

In first class the single seats have the table leg in an appalling position. As a very tall person I would be almost totally unable to sit in these seats doe to position of legs At present we are accelerating heavily out of York towards darlington. Ride quality is appalling with massive...

I'm in first class at present on an azuma. Seats are definitely narrower and there's quite a bit less legroom. I'd say the suspension is worse giving a very bumpy ride I spoke to lner staff in the first class lounge and they said they'd had lots of complaints about smaller seats and uncomfy...

I'm talking about the 70s And the fastest Sheffield to London run is 119 minutes via the slow erewash. Faster than the present journeys from Sheffield to London by quite a long way. I did the cutler quite a few times before it got slowed. In the 70s quite a few went down the erewash

The Erewash was regularly used for trains not calling at Derby or Nottingham. It was also a very fast line back then.

I'm envious. I only did it once over woodhead on a Sunday on a 101.i remember it absolutely hammering all the way into Manchester from the tilunnel. My dad was a fireman at woodhead and often took them over tender first in winter in the early hours. Awful job and hard work

The baghill services were rerouted when the Selby by pass opened. But local services were stopped due to local politics and cross border funding issues

From memory, there was a Derby to Manchester on Saturdays leaving around 9am. This ran via Dore curve until mid 70s. Somewhere I have got the original br timetables from 74 onwards. I remember the Sunday services via woodhead. They had around 100 mins for the journey to Sheffield via Woodhead...

I remember travelling from Derby to Manchester via door curve on the London to Manchester trains. It was usually a peak with around 7 mk 1 stock. Often these were entirely first class corridor stock. Back then very few loco hauled trains rain down the hope valley. I remember the peak hammering...

Has anyone mentioned North Berwick to Gullane line that was actively planned?

I remember catching the Newcastle to Newquay summer Saturday train at Pontefract. Quite a few cross country services stopped there on Saturdays There were funding issues with baghill with West Yorkshire PTE refusing to fund services. South yourkshire refused and sadly the whole situation...

For those who say that Hs2 will give faster journey times. Well the Sheffield to Birmingham Hs2 journey will be 8 minutes faster than the current journey times Standard time for late running xc trains from Sheffield to Birmingham is 56 minutes. And paths are easily found for these journeys...

Here in Northumberland, thanks to the cuts that David Cameron immediately instigated, just about all our local public transport was scrapped, ostensibly because of a lack of money. Every single PTE and their varients have had their socially necessary transport budget virtually eliminated by the...

Ill test out the legroom, seat size and comfort when i travel. For the present I will use precedent to say that Its unlikely that these coaches will be comfier. And from the floor plan of the azuma, there are most certainly fewer lavatories. And of course, many services will only be half the...

If a ticket machine does not sell the ticket you want then you have legal right to buy on the train. Also theres issues with those with disabilities who have legal rights that supercede conditions of carriage rules etc.

I remember when Scarborough station had 13 platforms and a very large amount of sidings for the massive amount of rolling stock that went through there(esp on weekends) BAck then, the weekend trains has 12 coaches So they are putting back some siding the taxpayers paid to be dug up. Now the...

Current timings have been deliberatly inflated when compared to 20 years ago. Lets see how the full timetable compares to a timetable from the mid 90s and not compare them to current timetables that have way too much running time. Not everyone has a short memory. And some of us have the actual...

Second class coaches on an azuma have at least 12 extra seats. Thats can only amount to less leg room, less space for luggage and fewer lavatories I am travelling in a couple of weeks on an azuma in first class. lets see how they compare to the sublime MK4 stock.