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POSSIBLY...except that this trip would have been in the school holidays or a Saturday and it would have been a mid to late afternoon working...

Not a current example by any means but a remember a trip on the Cambrian Coast Line in the early to mid-1970s where a Pwllheli-bound service had about an hour's wait at Barmouth. It was actually shown in the timetable as two separate services but the same DMU operated both legs. Not...

I remember that Bangor in North Wales had a bell on the main platform that sounded about five minutes before train arrival on platform 2 (the main up through platform towards Chester). Possibly still has - I haven't used the station regularly since the 1980s. Would it have been something to...

You're right, it does...

I think people travelling to Watford Junction on zone 6 tickers must be quite a common mistake. For years I'd imagined it was in the normal travelcard zones and only after living in London for 30 years was I disabused of that notion. I think it's because there is no open countryside between...

I would second that, though check the opening hours as they are not as normal pubs: 5-10.30 Mon & Tue; 5-7.30 Wed & Thu; 5-9 Fri; 5-7.30 Sat; 12-3 Sun according to the Camra What Pub? website. Also, give it a miss if you're a lager drinker - they don't sell it.

Plus probably a lack of awareness of their historic significance at the time. Not many people would have realised or cared that the long distance mail coach was about to become a thing of the past. The sheer speed with which railways were adopted in this country must also have been a factor...

I think also in the case of the mail coaches, there are very very few 'real' ones left. At the time, nobody thought to preserve an aspect of transport that was fading into history, I imagine. In the same way that there are only a very, very few examples of railway coaching stock from the...

There was also a revival in road coaches in the Victorian era when they would be driven down the old coaching roads for a bit of nostalgia. Driving four-in-hand horses was also a bit of a thing for the aristocracy and I believe it still exists as a posh person's sport today, practiced by Prince...

Living in Southern-land, the issue of trains being early at intermediate stations rarely arises but it has happened to me twice now elsewhere. The first was an early morning Eurostar service that pulled out of St Pancras quite a few minutes early - I presume that their computer systems tell...

Thanks - that is interesting. Sounds like my cycling excursion from Liverpool to North Wales is back on the cards, then. (Though I'm not sure what their reasoning is in saying that the ferries remain the best option when travelling with a bike when the commuter service operates to Seacombe...

I've looked on the Merseyrail site and can't find anything about whether cycles will be carried on the rail replacement buses. I know that these aren't normally carried on RRBs but would an exception be made owing to the fact that there's a stretch of water involved and you aren't allowed to...

That wouldn't necessarily have prevented it being nationalised though. (And in fact, I think a portion at the Blaenau Ffestiniog end was still in use even at that time.) I seem to remember that the line's owners applied for an abandonment order which was refused and it might have been the...

I wonder what factor the ownership structure of the line concerned determined whether or not it was nationalised in 1948? The Talyllyn being a case in point - wasn't it effectively under the same ownership as the slate quarry that it served - so separating it from that ownership in order to...

In my experience, rate of seat-belt wearing on scheduled coach services is very low, even where they are provided. CL

North Woolwich? Silvertown? Possibly others on that branch that were replaced by the new Dockland Light Railway line?

A new outfit called Citystasher is offering an alternative to station left luggage outlets based on newsagents shops and similar. Interesting idea - especially for the many stations that don't have any left luggage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38341439

And most likely would be an Aslef member and on strike anyway I would have thought. And would they have route knowledge north of Clapham Junction?

But unless the charter operator had drivers with the requisite route-knowledge, they'd need to hire a Southern driver?

From the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04l0htt Not sure how this is going to work. If the train crews are all on strike, and/or refusing to work overtime, surely they wouldn't work a special train either?