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Been on my jollies to the Yorkshire Dales. Last week I followed Forum advice and tried to buy from a (Northern) ticket office - the source of impartial advice, more accurate than TVM's, keep the ticket office open, staff employed etc. I was offered Anytime Day Returns (SDR) rather than...

A planning application to re-instate the railway between Leekbrook and Barnfields Road was recently approved by Staffordshire Moorlands District Council. Leekbrook is the current terminus of the Churnet Valley Railway, and offers the prospect of a link to the National Rail network via...

Just checked the messages on my answerphone. Got one of those recorded messages where the first bit is cut off because the auto-dialler doesn't allow for gap between my telephone picking up and the beep to commence recording a message. Anyway, in an American accent: my IP address has been...

I know we have covered this a number of times in general terms, but I was wondering what people's opinions are on the following, specific, real-life journey. I had an Advance (one through ticket, not split) from Stoke-on-Trent to Manchester (Virgin), Manchester to Edinburgh (TPE), Edinburgh to...

Thank you to my predecessors for initially creating and then taking on the updating of this thread. This first post lists only those stations considered to have a good chance of being delivered in a reasonable timescale. I have taken the list ‘as is’ at December 2020 and will update it when...

For anyone interested, I have just found this zoomable world rail map. New lines in Africa are included so it is nicely up-to-date. Well done to the person/s responsible. http://www.openrailwaymap.org/

I notice that The Skiers Lodge Ltd sometimes, perhaps, trading as easyBus and easyCoach registered two new local bus services in Shrewsbury. Service 24 from Harlescott to Shrewsbury, due to commence on 22 October...

Does anyone know anything about the proposals for four additional trains each way on the Middlesbrough - Whitby line? Are the proposals progressing? Is December 2017 timetable change still the commencement date? In brief, York Potash Ltd have proposals to build a large potash mine south...

Reported in various sources. This from Railways Africa (3 November 2016): Sorry, no direct link, due to the convoluted means of cutting, pasting, re-cutting and re-pasting in order to get a hard copy! Website is: http://www.railwaysafrica.com/ The first phase of the new line runs from...

Reported in various sources. This from Railways Africa (7 October 2016): Sorry, no direct link, due to the convoluted means of cutting, pasting, re-cutting and re-pasting in order to get a hard copy! Website is: http://www.railwaysafrica.com/ Line runs approx. 756km from Sebeta (outside...

Following on from a comment in this thread: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=137633 All those bags of rubbish collected up by on-train cleaners, or station staff, or at the end of the day at the depot. Does it get sorted and appropriately recycled or does it all go for...

From the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36849648 Basically, passengers complaining about the heating being on, full blast, on the hottest day of the year. I must agree with them, yesterday I had a similar experience on a First in The Potteries bus. Makes me want...

Had a trip to London today, intending to do 2M29 London Paddington to West Ruislip. The train is scheduled to run direct via Park Royal, instead we went via the Greenford Branch. :o How often does this occur? Nice bit of rare track for me to get unexpectedly :D, but I shall have to make...

Report in the local press today (The Sentinel, Stoke-on-Trent) that planning permission has been refused by Staffordshire Moorlands District council for a housing development at Leekbrook. The development being linked financially to re-opening the line between Leekbrook and Leek town (or close...

Reports of a fire on 1V45 Manchester to Bristol TM service at Stafford this morning. RTT shows service cancelled at Stafford at 0807. Seems minor, no injuries reported. http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Passengers-evacuated-smoking-train/story-28897623-detail/story.html

Last week I was doing some armchair travelling (better than being an armchair expert!) in Peru and discovered that the line from Cuzco (Poroy - outside the main city) through to Machu Picchu has been uploaded to Googlemaps. Very interesting it was too, both from a railway aspect and for the...

Not aware if this has been covered previously but: Have there been any proposals to provide a 'Google Railview' for UK rail lines, similar to Streetview but covering rail lines? Any rail industry staff want to take up the challenge? I ask as, last week, I was doing some armchair...

:roll: Awesome. First in the Potteries, introducing their second set of widespread timetable changes THIS YEAR, are declining to provide printed timetables this time around. For some routes, they didn't provide any first time around either. Instead the public are to be given an A4 crib...

The notice reproduced below was published on First Potteries website on 6th November. Whilst it is good that they have communicated with passengers, am I the only one to think that heating in the passenger saloon should be a separate function from engine function? Do any car drivers out...

I noticed in Table 239 of the Winter 2014 timetable the following note; This relates to the retimed 1828 service from Inverness. On the one hand it introduces uncertainty around your arrival time into stations at the end of the line. On the other hand is it better to arrive 15 minutes...