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Had not thought of that but it certainly applies to me. I live about 1/2 mile from the bus route/stop but every bus to and from the depot passes our house.

Y Sorry if question was not clear - I think the gradient reference was not in regard to the swing bridge itself but the track on the banks. It would also have referred to the pre electrification bridge.

I have a memory of once reading that due to the design of the Trowse bridge it contained the steepest (although shortest) gradient on the main line in the UK. Was this true and if so what was the gradient?

More logically this could be the Southminster branch which follows the river Crouch.

As others have said this has occurred in the past and I have departed twice. Brittania and a Merchant Navy. Perhaps the problem at the moment is paths and platform availability. TFL have taken up more paths in recent years on both West Anglia and the GEML slow lines.

Some years ago I attended a series of lectures on producing history programmes for TV. Amount the lessons I learnt were You are not the target audience for the programme. Apart from the BBC, programmes are made to deliver audiences to advertisers. What we may see as a lack of intrresting...

THE SMG, which includes the National Railway Museum (NRM) has today announced a number of redundancies and a cut back so that "the organisation’s five museums will operate under reduced opening hours when they reopen following the current lockdown, only opening for five days a week outside of...

I write as a user of Braintree station - why not close Braintree and upgrade the facilities at Freeport? This would need to include a bus service This would make no real difference to me, and many users, and if the pay off was 2tph then, in my view, the loss would be worth while.

This is fairly bad for me. I use Sudbury for journeys north and the we already knew that the original committment to running trains to Colchester from Sudbury had been dropped. Better use of the bi-modes might have been a Sudbury - Harwich service? That also has some tourism possibilities...

If you enter Hertford East to Hertford North you do get a message no fare and a 30 min walk. However add London as a via point and arrive at single fare of £35.20, oddly on the example I selected you are routed KX - Stevenage - Hertford North

When I started this thread I did not realise what an unwritten history there was behind the simple stationary number. I have a number of the Aptis credit card size tickets in my collection and all seem to have the BR number 4599 with a number following the slash such as /21 - Annual Season...

Three small towns Cromer - a new bus station was promised but only buses to the East / South stop at the new stands those to the West stop in the street opposite. Oddly the bus stop going East actually faces west. Braintree at the moment the old bus park is being redeveloped and it will be...

This is a very niche question: Most people who collect railway ephemera of the nationalisation era will be aware that nearly all printed items of that time have a code that contains the letters BR and a number. Sometimes this is had a suffix letter or a slash followed by another number...

As TFK is currently broke perhaps we could add to this thread by suggesting renaming lines against possible sponsors. The rename could be in two stages line sponsored by xxxxx then the sponsors name would take over. It would be best if you could think of a link between the lines name and the...

As pointed out the new lorry parks are for Dover traffic. Currently I think the only lorry parks on the a14 are at the Orwell Crossing and Bury St Edmunds. There is a proposal for a new park at Levington. As this shows...

The most recent thread on this topic is here https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/longest-ecs-movements.205870/

Perhaps they got the Prime Minister to build the bus out of boxes

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May I suggest an alternative to the DSLR route. A few years ago I purchased a Nikon D3x00 range camera and yes it did revolutionise my photography. It was great if I travelled but car to a location but was a literal pain for bus/train/plane journeys. I then purchased a Sony HX60 and have not...

If this was the case my regrets would be even greater as it would have been 1971 when I was at Liverpool Street to see the train. Thanks for saying this - as the OP I did want to avoid this thread becoming a wish list of regrets but more recollections of close misses.