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Yes the running in boards did have the Saffron Walden name on them but these were removed in 1964 when the branch closed. I think they are now at the miniature railway, The reference to Saffron Walden was not reinstated until 2012. A look at the current OS map will show that the Audley End...

Apologies if this has been mentioned in the preceding posts.. The 1964 Labour Government came in on the expectation that they would halt the Marples/Beeching closures but in fact closed lines the Beeching Report has lined up for improvement. I have a feeling, from some ministerial...

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but I have just had an e-mail from the Museum's Association saying that the NRM's £15m grant towards the current refurbishment is under threat as it is seen as part of the levelling up money which the current government sees as having been unfunded,

But Audley End station is actually in Wendens Ambo and spent it's first few years called Wenden. Although not appearing in timetables the station name boards do say "Audley End for Saffron Walden "

Locally my favourite town without a rail link Thaxted and even when it had a station it was a fairway from the town. Nearby Saffron Walden might be second. Finchingfield doesn't count as it is a village. In Norfolk I would add Hunstanton and Holt.The North Norfolk Railway doesn't count as the...

But whatever happened to the Conservatives promise of a Britrail pass for UK residents?

Just after my last post to this thread I happened to have BBC Radio 4 on in the car and caught the end of an edition of "In Our Time" which was discussing Hayek's book "The Road to Serfdom". Having now heard the entire programme it's interesting to hypothesise that Hayek's idea about reducing...

The baby boomers were taking over. When I entered the world of work in 1970, all the Managers etc had wartime/national service experience. By the late 1980's we were moving into those roles.some businesses thrived on the new ways of working but for others those managers had to adjust. I know I...

Two odd examples in East Anglia. Sudbury and Sheringham both lost a platform when they became termini but then the remaining platform in each case was replaced by a new, single platform, station.

A couple of years ago I gave a friend a lift to a garage near Sudbury in Suffolk to pick up a van he had left there that morning for servicing. I said to him on the way there that somewhere near there were some stored Finnish steam loco's. He replied that he hadn't seen any when he dropped the...

On the main line the Jacobite at Mallaig runs round once or twice a day during the season. Otherwise as @D841 Roebuck said look at preserved lines

In the early 2000's I was travelling on a train from Waterloo to Woking, and just after Clapham Junction was approached by an individual asking to see tickets. Theis person had no visible form on ID so I asked to see it. Their response was something along the lines of "Im new and it has not...

At least the train was not designed by Microsoft AI I asked it create a picture of a Nightsleepder Train or

But not over the various London suburban tracks that the train in the show would have negotiated at that stage on the story. The average made me think that the writers were given the mileage and timed it to 100mph.

My question is who needs HS2? In the final episode the first named location was Wolvercote Junction and if the programme was in real time it covered the 71 miles to the final station in 43 minutes. That is roughly an average of 100mph.

As this is not crucial to the plot, which station or stations were shown in the drone shot and immediately following where the train went through the station with a pantograph up and no wires. Supposedly just outside Leeds. My limited knowledge of the area says it was Leicester.

Also now on the BBC Sport pages https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wkpqegd89o

Using the search thread facility -no one seems to have said Greater Anglia.

How about the Sussex Rubber Company, School Road, North Acton? Except the station is not NSE and in a cutting! Its worth looking at this on Google Maps as the image has some very short trians, that is 1/4 carriage long.