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I've just been looking over the ORR entry-exit figures for the Peterboro' – Doncaster joint and find them astonishing for the last data entries, ie 2024-25 Spalding – 208,000 entries-exits. Sleaford – 296,000 – (Has Nottingham-Grantham as major contributor to these figures, of course, but...

I went on a Scottish shed bash with the South Beds Loco Club (run by the indomitable Brian Lockey) over Easter in 1965, must have been April. (The next two pars are about the journey north - pl skip if in a hurry.) We travelled north on the overnight St Pancras – Glasgow Central sleeper on the...

I see Middlesex and Leicestershire are playing at Trent Bridge in the one-day cup final on Sunday 20 September. Would seem to be a no brainer to run some Crickex from London and even Leicester, since the first train ex St Pancras does not arrive in Nottingham until 10.56, too late to see the...

<NB – This thread is not meant to be about the modern prices/monetary values of locomotive nameplates and other railwayana. There is, somewhere, a dedicated thread for that subject.> For some random reason while washing up this week my mind wandered to consider locomotive nameplates, or rather...

For some random reason when mixing my yoghurt shake earlier today, I wondered why the LNER (I mean, the original one, at the post WWI grouping) was so named, given that arguably its main claim to fame then and even now was that it was the principal route from London to Edinburgh. (See also...

Talk of the fromer GWR 14xx (48xx) class 0-4-2T auto-train tanks in the last push-pull train thread made me think of their Indian 'cousins'. I remember seeing some of these locos in India in 1976, probably in the Punjab (maybe Ludhiana?) and Ambala Cantonment. I think they were painted maroon...

I have just come across this video: At 29'00", the filming is at Ketton + ? station (Peterboro' - Melton Mowbray line) and the narrator says this was the last push-pull working in the country. I think earlier he claimed this was 1965. Is this correct? If I'd had to guess, I'd have thought...

Taken from this post, by @52290 The O in Oporto is the definite article "the" in the masculine singular. O Porto or Oporto means " the Port". More than one port would be Os Portos. The feminine equivalents are A and As. From this thread...

Summer Evening - Walk Home The Douro as she once was - July, 1973 Canon FTb + 135mm Soligor Copyright Iron Duke

All services cancelled twixt Skipton and Applebe last Sunday down to 'overrunning engineeing works'. (Surely trains could have run Skipton - Ribblehead, unless the engineers needed occupation, but that seems a bit unlikely?) Numerous - but not all - trains delayed by up to 50+ minutes...

(At least, regarding their north-west catchment areas.) Looking at the destination/origin of passengers' data for 2024-5 (using https://www.railwaydata.co.uk/ ) of stations at the southern end of the S&C route, I was surprised to see such massive figures in favour of Leeds over...

Old timers may well remember the times when a train would pull into a station which did not have long enough platforms to accommodate the train. The train would stop for the leading coaches, exchange passengers, and then be waved off by the guard to bring the remaining carriages into the...

Like many on these forums, I'm excited to see real action when it comes to re-openings (yes, congratulations to you, Cowley, on your recent good news), but I do wonder why more effort is not put in to improve, or better still, inaugurate, Sunday services on some existing routes. Derby – Crewe...

I'm intrigued as to the impact of the (relatively) new Newcastle - Sunlan - Pools - Middlesboro 'fasts'. True, they can't really be termed as fast - 76 minutes for 47 odd miles is not exactly electrifying speed - but I assume it's the best it's ever been? Anyway, would be interested in any...

At least according to RTT. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/gb-nr:MLM/2025-09-01/0000-2359?stp=WVS&show=passenger&order=wtt That's new from today, isn't it? (Sorry if there is a thread already on this - I couldn't find one.) EDIT - Well, Northern definitely appear to be...

I know someone was asking about the most scenic route to use in Slovenia recently, so this might help that OP as well as others. Slovenia Tourism posted their regular newsletter to me this morning, and it has a segment on 'beautiful train journeys' in the country. See here...

Being in the UK for a fortnight, I wanted to take a day to visit friends in Kent and take a trip on what I regard as one of England's gems, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch 15” gauge line. On advanced singles, things kicked off with the South Eastern's 2A11 Gravesend to Cannon Str, due Lewisham...

If anyone is utilising this extra return workings, which starts tomorrow (Aug 03), I'm sure some in here (along with myself) would welcome reports on how this experiment, as I assume it is, is working out in terms of passenger response.

Many in here will know that Willington, as a station, is a bit of an outlier. Reopened in 1994, it was envisaged as part of the so-called “Ivanhoe Line” service, but has been out on something of a limb ever since that worthy idea fell through, after the local authority Leicester (?) county...

(Mods - this is both a modern operating subject and historical - but I put it in this forum because I'd like both the historical and modern to be discussed in the same thread. If you disagree, well, do as you will.) These questions have been prompted by the re-opening of Bicester to...