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This brings to mind a journey I and mrs 65477 made back in the 1980s; we managed to arrange it so we both had business meetings in Scotland on the same Friday so we got both our employers to refund us the day return air fare but allow us to use the money to travel as we wanted. So we booked a...

This thread seems to have gone slightly. (although entertainingly) OT to include specials so I will include the Hymek farewell. Regarding service trains that is normal timetable & normal fares various services used Ilford depots Cl306 emu over the years. I can recall Braintree & Harwich branches.

Surely manyNational Rail / London Underground stations are technically and legally separate stations. In London the two Hammersmith stations are the opposite each other and the two Shepherd's Bush stations Overground / Central line are again close.

Only just seen this thread. Most of my spotting was carried out in the 1970's. Others have mentioned Wtt's and during that time BR had Collectors Corner near Euston and would sell off old WTT's and as times did not change much a six month old one would usually be of some use. Also most towns of...

Just discovered that the TV channel Talking Pictures has as short film on the Harlow Dial a Ride at 16:40 on Thursday 25th. available on various TV services

Electric hauled compartment stock from a bay platform at Liverpool Street with steam haulage on Chesham branch. Smell of fresh popcorn at stations. No children seated when adults (of any age) were standing.

To answer the original question about resources two examples from Essex. Back in the 1970's there was an experimental DaR service in Harlow and this was undertaken with academic research - I think the final report was by Cranfield University. The Dar service was replaced at the end of the...

In July/August 1976 I attended an Open University summer school in York. Traveling from Harlow Town I found that there was one train a day direct from Bishop's Stortford to York. It wasn't shown as such in the public timetable but looking at the various separate pages it became obvious that the...

Not an "all time favourite" bus trip but rather than start a new thread this seems appropriate to show what we can no longer do: One positive outcome of the "lock-down" is that I have finally got round to digitising and cataloguing both my photo collection and trip logs. These include both...

Mrs 65477 and I have toured Cornwall by train twice now. The first time we travelled down by train from Paddington as at that time we lived within the M25. We then moved to the very South of East Anglia and discovered the cheapest way was to drive to Norwich Airport, leave the car there and fly...

Have had a "final" letter from GA saying "I understand your concern is that, advance tickets are not available from Sadbury to Norwich or from Sadbury to Marks Tey. However, they are available from Witham or Colchester. The advance tickets as mentioned are subject to availability from station...

Thanks saperstien - I have to travel earlier than that, but even on the earlier train trainsplit is showing £8 single (no split) against GA's £14! GA's reply to me was the rather generic "I would like to inform you that advance tickets are route specific and they are subjected to...

About 8 times a year I travel from Sudbury (Suffolk) to Norwich and have always managed to get advance tickets at around £5 - £6 each way (that is with a Railcard Discount).Sometime these have been purchased the day before. My next trip is scheduled for Saturday 7th March and there are no...

You don't say what time you are arriving, but I make a similar journey and would suggest you look at the X10 bus from the Airport to Chelmsford and then by train. It only takes 35 mins so would possibly mean a faster journey - not sure of the effect on the cost through - I have a bus pass so...

I am hoping that next week's episode includes the following section of the book "About five o’clock the gathering crowd in the station [Waterloo] was immensely excited by the opening of the line of communication, which is almost invariably closed, between the South- Eastern and the...

In another field East Anglia is part of the focus of my studies and it refers to the Eastern Lands occupied by the angles. There were three angle kingdoms, East, Mercia and Northumberland. Thus if West Anglia did exist is was around Birmingham!, although this is sometimes called Middle Anglia.

I must admit that I have not read all 101 pages of this thread, but I have revived a spam e-mail offering me shares in flats near Swindon station with the message "Swindon Station - Kings Cross only 45 minutes by 2018" How feasible will this travel time be "by 2018" and even when Crossrail is...