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The town is olde worlde in places and has been used for filming Middlemarch and Pride & Prejudice amongst others. Loads of pubs, typical town centre, i.e. loads of building societies and estate agents. Bacially, typical small market town.

£222 for a London to Fort William sleeper ticket last year on a Sunday. *only* £164 coming back though.

I have 12 GPS-4 FCC Peterborough to London super off peak day travel cards, £12 each. As I understand it, GPS-4 are only valid if 4 people travel together. Now we only need 11, can I exchange 4 of the tickets for 3 GPS-3 tickets at a ticket office? The tickets each have a unique 5 digit...

At my local station, Stamford, back in pre-nanny state days, when passengers opened and closed doors themselves, it was not uncommon for some coaches to not be at the platform when the train stopped. Passengers would be warned in advance that they must leave the train by the front x coaches or...

In my area, the Stamford to Grantham bus has increased in frequency from 3 a day to a whopping 5 a day each way in recent years. It still takes 1 hour and 15 mins though, the train is faster even though it is double the distance and requires a change at Peterborough. The bus doesn't use the A1...

I recently made a return trip from Peterborough to Hednesford for a football match (Hednesford v Solihull), changing at Nuneaton and Rugeley Trent Valley. Rugeley Trent Valley is by far the worst junction station I have ever used in terms of facilities. Two big platforms facing the TV slow...

All sorted, I phoned up East Coast in Plymouth (why are they in Plymouth?) and the guy I spoke to was able to bring up the details, and agreed I should get compensation, he didn't know why the original claim had been rejected, he just said that it looked like whoever dealt with it only...

Yes, the lounge pass redeemed from reward points can be used multiple times on the day and in different lounges.

Not according to East Coast: A strange statement. The first and last sections are clearly treating the East Coast service as the whole journey, whereas the middle section, and the statement on the East Coast website, appears to say that it is the whole journey and not any individual train...

I doubt there is anything unusual about Leeds, it appears to be part and parcel of the modern world that wherever there are people there will be crap all over the place. I remember walking along the Torquay sea front road last summer in the early evening, the beach was deserted but I was utterly...

Obviously the sea wall section was built to withstand a certain amount of hammering from the sea, but as it turns out, certain sections were not up to the job. But surely the obvious solution is simply to strengthen it? I understand the current construction is mostly retaining wall in filled...

Grimsby Town to Firsby and Boston to Spalding, but too young to remember it. Ones that I do remember: March to Spalding. Swinton to Normanton via Cudworth. Viaduct line approach to Leeds. Nuneaton avoiding line. Selby to York direct line. Lincoln St Marks approaches. Barkston curve...

What would happen if you made a return trip as effectively a single journey and got delayed? For example, say you live in Leeds and fancy a trip over the Settle & Carlisle one summer's day, so you buy 2 advance singles that take you up to Carlisle and back again, but with the required connecting...

My journey was from Peterborough to Scarborough, I had one 1st Advance Single for the complete journey, and seat reservations for 2 specific trains. My East Coast service to York left Peterborough 10 mins late and arrived at York 10 mins late, I had an 8 min connection onto my connecting TPE to...

Agree, although it's the same whoever is in opposition. I think a lot of the time the main policies of both main parties are very similar, so the end up making a big song and dance over relatively trivial differences, or resort to attacking the way the government are implementing a policy which...

Phil Marsh (from Railway Magazine) has just been on the BBC news and was advocating reinstatement of the Exeter to Plymouth via Okehampton line, he reckons it would cost about £250 million for the section from Tavistock to Okehampton, apparently based on what the Waverley line is costing, and...

Reporting the damage to the line at Dawlish, the BBC are referring to it as "the main train line to Cornwall". Ignoring the fact that "main" implies that there is another less important line available, it appears the BBC are determined never to use the word "railway". :roll: Still, I think train...

Possibly GWR is the other? Through services from Bristol ran via Cheltenham, Banbury, the Great Central and York to Newcastle. GWR coaching stock was used, but I'm not sure whether GWR locomotives were used throughout or whether they handed the train over to another company at some point.

Not according to this BBC article. It is 2 years old, but have things changed so much since then? Full article at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16477990

In fact, how about a vote for the rest of the UK on whether we want independence from Scotland?