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I'm off to Pembroke for a few days tomorrow & have been investigating rail & bus tickets for unlimited travel in the West Wales area. The Explore West Wales Ranger ticket (£15) is valid on trains west of Carmarthen, and also according to the TFW website all local bus services too. Is this...

I wonder how many years it has been since the last direct train from Okehampton to Plymouth!? Yes I know it was only empties. And if it's the first ever direct one one via the coast (rather than via Tavistock)?

And it's a bus stop on the X99 Inverness - Thurso Stagecoach route. I once got off the bus there to visit the castle before returning back to Inverness by train.

Shameful pee taking of a certain Oxford don - You will all leave Oxford by the next town drain.

Bay platform 7 at the western end & bay platform 6 at the eastern end. Both had platform faces either side of a single track.

Yes, I can confirm that we did!

This evening I travelled on the 18.27 Exeter St David's - Penzance (2C38). This was formed of 4 x 2 car 150s, all in passenger use. The sets are 150 232, 202, 244, 221 according to real time trains. 4 cars are due to be removed at Plymouth. I wonder if this is a feature of the new timetable...

I fear you -and I- might be showing our age with that. Travellers-Fare (sic) at it's very worst. I used to quite like maxpax tea, even though it didn't actually taste anything like tea IMHO.

Clachnaharry Inn on the western edge of Inverness alongside the Far North/Kyle of Lochalsh line. The pub is in the 2026 Good Beer Guide. The former station footbridge is also next to the pub with great views from it across the water of the Beauly Firth to the Black Isle. Buses -approximately...

There isn't really a route that doesn't involve Newport. I don't know why the railway sometimes does this. Unless people try to claim travel via Gloucester - Birmingham - Shrewsbury - Llandridnod Wells - Swansea - Cardiff - Caerphilly is a valid route!? Steamer down the Avon gorge from Bristol...

My thoughts exactly when reading the article. It can't be light & airy under a tower block can it? With regard to other London termini, the platforms on the South Central side of Victoria, the platforms at Euston, & the platforms at Cannon Street & Charing Cross certainly aren't.

New brown sign at Dawlish (one of many including totems). British Railways is back!

Exeter Central's ticket office is currently being moved, as part of a scheme for a new longer gateline. They are currently selling tickets from behind a desk, possibly to become permanent?

I still call it a "settee" which is probably an even older term! Although starting every sentence with "so", and the inability to say anything without using the word "like" several times over grates a bit with an old git like me, English does change -and probably always has done- and I suspect...

Here's a few from the Looe branch taken in 2023.

Some trains seem to have started running to Okehampton now according to National Rail Enquiries.

Similar brown signs are going up at Dawlish station. Some were put up yesterday, more being installed today including totems.

I heard yesterday that there has been rain recorded at Exeter Airport every single day since 31st December - and needless to say again today. The local floods are just not getting a chance to go down!

Touche! :D

It looks like your spell checker needs raining in (pun intended). The place is spelt Okehampton. Thanks for the update though. GWR are going to have to work hard to rebuild traffic after this long closure.