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If we are getting all grammatical, how about the impersonal pronoun "one"? "They" is incorrectly used in any other context than a plural, whatever the "Politically Correct" brigade might say. Quite frankly, I am disappointed; a serious railway forum containing a panoply of interesting...

Covertly, the rather overdressed Class 20 with a major (yet non-speaking) role in the 1995 James Bond film "GoldenEye" (the first of the Pierce Brosnan canon).

"Less is more" would seem to me to be the mantra here - short and sweet announcements which will hold the passengers' (sorry, should I be saying "customers'"?)attention. Incidentally, why is a train always described as "arriving into" a station? What did an innocent preposition do to merit...

Isn't Eurostar owned indirectly (via SNCF) by the French government?

The idea behind the Sealink version of the double-chevron is to show that ships pass each other port-to-port (left-hand side to left-hand side),whereas trains conventionally (please note the latter word!) pass each other right-hand side to right-hand side in the UK. The use of the reversed...

Although I understand the etymology of the word, I would still like to think that a promacassar existed somewhere on the rail network.

The New Guildford Line (via Cobham) featured 4 VEPs with First Class facilities for several years, I think in the late 70s or early 80s. I commuted daily between Claygate and London Road Guildford between 1966 and 1974, and it was a solid diet of 4 EPBs and 4 SUBs, leavened only by the...

I'm feeling a little sensitive here - Northern is my surname, and there are not many of us.

So the train comes alongside the platform and makes fast by means of stem and stern painters; out come the gangways to allow the passengers to disembark etc.? But a vessel "pulling into port"? Maybe "coming into port", even if we're drifting off-topic here.

Two odd uses come to mind: why does a train consistently "arrive into" a station? This seems to be on the script for in-train announcements, rather than the more conventional "at"; why do we say that "The XX.XXhrs train to YYYY will be coming in on platform 1"? For those who are not native...

Going back to the original query, Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog would seem an unlikely candidate for electrification. The OLE would also be an unwelcome addition to the landscape.

London Road, Guildford?

Therefore "First W.C."?

At about 12.15hrs today, I noted two Virgin Class 221 units entering Penmaenbach tunnel, en route from Chester to Holyhead. While the first one comprised the usual 5 cars, the second had only four - I was near enough and it was moving slowly enough (a new footbridge is being installed, hence...