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Anyone know an Adrian Craig who frequents the Billingham area? If so, there's a free ticket on a DB special. Maybe the power of Rail Forums can succeed where the might of social media has failed? See below:

Very few if any, I'd imagine. I don't think there are any weekday services at all now that don't run every weekday except maybe a handful of Fridays-only extra services. Back in the day, I vaguely remember a Kyle Line service that was something like Mondays, Wednesdays Fridays only and the...

I saw the 16.45 replacement 13 bus depart Stafford station on Thursday 24 November. Nobody on it. CL

OK, yes, I was thinking more of restrictions in the middle of plain line. Turnouts would in any case be protected by approach-controlled signals or similar. CL

Well, goes back to my point that some of the tight curves could have been planned out at the very early stages of a tramway/light rail project - even if it did mean spending a bit more money on property or land acquisition. A 12mph restriction is very severe, even where the line speed is...

But just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should. I appreciate that there are advantages in 90-degree bends for on-street sections (where speed is going to be restricted anyway) but on the faster open country sections surely something more akin to heavy rail...

One thing that has always puzzled me about the tram and light rail systems that have been built in the past 30 years or so is why so many of them have such tight curves interspersed between (relatively) fast sections of line. In the case of the junction where this accident occurred, was it...

It's conventional rear/forward facing - no longitudinal as far as I know. Don't think anything has been said about the loading of the tram involved.

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I live about two miles away and it has been raining heavily pretty much all all night. Also a lot of leaf fall in the area. May be a factor, maybe not.

Pretty certain the A55 North Wales Coast Expressway crosses over the Amlwch branch somewhere in the Pentre Berw area. The branch would have been out of use by the time the new dual carriageway was built, I think, some time in the 1990s.

Belfast Great Victoria Street - station is in the basement as I remember. Probably is the largest bus station in the city. Cardiff main bus station used to be adjacent to Central station though not physically part of it.

There is a story in my bro-in-law's family in Manchester that during the 1930s the womenfolk would get the Brasso out every day and polish 'their' section of the tram rails that ran down their terraced street, along with sweeping the front step, pavement etc.

No, there have been no ferry services from Dover to Belgium for many years now. The Europa Ferries service that operated from Ramsgate to Ostende also stopped about 2-3 years ago. The only alternative routing for cars from south-east England to the continent (apart from the Channel Tunnel)...

Yes, here is a press report on it, from Commercial Motor, November 1982. Freight News On and off the rails A PARCELS CARRIER banned from using British Rail's Motorail service because he was seen as an unhealthy source of competition, has since been approached by Freightliner, another...

Wasn't there a legal case many years ago in which British Rail successfully prevented a courier firm from putting its vans on Motorail services? I very dimly remember seeing it in Modern Railways or similar in the 1970s. Would the same ruling apply to courier pushbikes on trains?

The best is when you knock someone sideways with your rucksack in a crowded vestibule, swing round to apologise to the person you've just brained and send a load of other people flying...

The BBC report also states: The BBC understands the Clapham Junction to Milton Keynes and Tonbridge to Redhill services will be completely removed... If correct, would that mean bustitution for the Tonbridge-Redhill line?

It certainly worked in that case...

Could have bought new clothes on arrival, or already had them prior to departing for Pakistan. He maybe kept a set of 'British' clothes to change into on arrival in this country. Could possibly have left or discarded passports somewhere; along with credit cards, keys etc. He could have been...