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Hi Does anyone have knowledge of how many trains a day, and their journey times, there would have been from Hartford to Liverpool and back in the 1860s on the WCML. And I presume that before the Chester to Mancheaster line was opened, with the Greenbank Station in Hartford, the only easy way...

Hi Here's a photo of Treorchy, the mining town in the Welsh Valleys, taken in the later 1930s or possibly early 1940s. Blow it up a bit, and you can see three white stripes on the station roof. These do not appear on an earlier photo dated 1932. The stripes look for all the world like the...

Just to share a screenshot at 18:57 from Rob Bell's Channel 5 series on famous ships, this being the Cutty Sark episode. It's an un-named dock in an un-named country. Just thought you'd be interested. Well, it doesn't look like UK, and the gauge appears wider than standard, suggesting...

Dear friends Does anyone have access to an old timetable which would give an idea of times and frequencies of trains from Penarth Station to Saunders Road Station or right past it onto the Riverside branch to Clarence Road Station. And how different was the service on Sundays? Also what the...

Hi On Michael Portillo's current tv series on railways in World War 1, there was a still photo of several massive 2-6-2 saddletanks of American appearance, with ROD clearly showing on the sides. I had never heard of such a locomotive before, and can't find any reference to them online. It could...

Hi Any timetable historian be able to give me a rough idea of numbers and times of stopping trains to and from Willington, on the Derby-Birmingham line, in the 1890s. Grateful thanks Tony