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Thanks - ebay has been my main source.

Thanks. I have tried there but it didn't have anything that I was looking for.

Thanks for the link but I was looking for any data going back to the 1970s/80s - well before the Internet. I have some old timetables from this period (& the 1960s) and wondered if someone had scanned others and stored them somewhere on the web.

Thanks for that. I guess finding URLs for older timetables will be a problem.

Sorry can't help but I'm interested in the search criteria that you used with Wayback Machine. I tried searching using words such as 'british rail timetable 1970' and 'western region timetable 1970' but didn't get anything useful.

Many thanks for the info - especially so quickly. Also, I hadn't realised there was such a thing as Chinese Wikipedia.

I recently returned from a trip around China which involved 2 rail journeys. The first was on a HST from Beijing West to Xi'an North using what appears to have been a Chinese built Fuxing train. The second was on a classic (overnight) train from Xi'an to Shanghai (train no. Z94). Owing to tight...

Up to the end of the early 1960s, holiday trains from Yorkshire & the East Midlands to the coastal resorts of Dorset & Hants used either the ex-Midland Railway route via Birmingham, Gloucester and the Somerset & Dorset to reach Poole & Bournemouth West or the ex-Great Central route to Banbury...

Nottingham – Paignton summer FO/SO trains 1. Down Overnight Train The departure time from Nottingham remained at or around 10.00PM throughout (the latest departure time was 10.19PM in 1979). The years with the earliest arrival in Paignton (4.35AM) were 1972/3/4. The Operation Torbay book...

Nottingham – Paignton summer FO/SO trains 1. Down Overnight Train I don’t know when this started but the earliest year that I have records for is 1957 (‘Operation Torbay’ by Xpress Publications) and this shows it leaving at 10.00PM from Nottingham and arriving at Paignton at 5.25AM. Until 1962...

The Nottingham - Newquay started in 1965 and replaced the previous Newcastle - Newquay & Penzance which divided at Sheffield and went forward separately from there (although there is uncertainty about 1964 as both were advertised to start from Sheffield but TCs for Cornwall from Newcastle may...

Grantham was a very important junction for East Lincs passengers wanting to go to London / W + E Yorks / North East / Scotland. The only other likely reversal possibility might be Sleaford but only if the service had been diverted due to something like engineering works or points failure - in...

I mainly want to catch up on the new bits since I left Lancashire in 1982, ie. Manchester Airport spurs; Ordsall curve; Salford Crescent link; Bolton to Wigan NW; Todmorden curve. It will be nice to see again Bolton – Darwin – Blackburn and Blackburn – Copy Pit. The last time I went over the...

Cheltenham station is a mile or so from the town centre and even further from major employers such as GCHQ, Zurich, Capita & GE Aviation. However there are buses but they add to the commute time.

Thanks for the speedy replies. Much appreciated. Looks like I'll have to get a ticket to Manchester on the outward journey but can get one from Macc on the way back after buying the Wayfarer.

I’m planning a day trip one Saturday soon from Cheltenham to the Manchester / Blackburn area to explore some lines that I haven’t been over or not been over for many years. The TfGM Wayfarer ticket seems to allow me to cover many of the north west lines that I’m interested in. Can that be bought...

I live in the forest and have walked some of the old routes - railway and tramway / tramroad (one used flangeless wheels & 'L' shaped rails; the other flanged wheels & conventional rails - can't remember which was which). Ian Pope of the FoD History Society has co-written 4 or more books on the...

Thanks bramling for comprehensive reply.

Thanks both for the update.

This line was previously the Up Goods line but was upgraded for passenger use. It seems to be used for peak time services into Moorgate. Is it used, or intended to be used, by other services, eg. future Thameslink services?