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I think one of the books on the Woodhead route recalls an incident in the 1960s, when a DC loco-hauled train arriving at Manchester Piccadilly off the Woodhead route was mistakenly signalled into an AC platform on the western side of the station. The driver realised the error, lowered the...

At Abergavenny Monmouth Road, the up platform was extended c.1960 to its 12 coach length, running right up to the section signal (5). Similar extension of the down platform (which remains at its 5 coach length) was not possible because the connections from the down main to the back platform and...

Cheltenham Spa Lansdown: Not having changed platforms there for c. 2 years I'm not sure exactly what happens now, but I think the newer (north) footbridge was provided c.1969 to carry the PROW while the original (south) one is within the ticket barriered area. John Prytherch.

The box halfway through the old Woodhead Tunnel must have been bad! I believe that, very many years ago and probably pre-electrification, there was a Mid Mersey box between James Street and Hamilton Square. That too must have been very unpleasant. I believe that before electrification, many...

The bridge over the M50 at Ripple, between Aschurch and Upton on Severn, was obtained by the Bluebell railway when it was removed. I do not know whether it is now carrying a railway, a road over a railway, or in store. Two other examples about which I remember heated discussions in the family...

Exmouth - what's left stops short of where the line originally stopped. Bradford - both Forster Square and Exchange.

I believe HSTs were occasionally hauled by electric locomotives on the WCML. During the brief era when they worked between Euston and Holyhead, I saw one up working arrive at Crewe, having had its windscreen damaged by an object thrown at it by an idiot somewhere in the Chester or Crewe area...

I recall reading that sometime in the 1980s, Shrewsbury station staff placed a platform seat in a van of a parcels train, as a means of getting some stranded passengers home towards South Wales. I also recall reading that one day in the 1970s, a Deltic on the up Yorkshire Pullman from Bradford...

I agree, these books are the best railway books I have ever enjoyed. I know Gloucestershire's railways fairly well. I am still composing a detailed letter of thanks to Mr Parkhouse for Volume 4A. John Prytherch.

Dolly Molly - pedestrian crossing on Metrolink between Radcliffe and Bury.

Sorry, not possessing mobile telephone apparatus I cannot post a picture, but I have observed at two locations several repeating examples of a sign I do not think I have seen before. It consists of a largish black diamond, with two white diamonds side by side on it. The two locations where I...

To restore connectivity between Trafford Park and Glazebrook, restore the west end connection which joined the CLC main line not too far from Trafford Park station. I travelled it once on a Sunday in the 1970s - due to engineering works we left Manchester through United Football Ground...

I think that in AC days occasional trips to and from Altrincham by AM10s were from further afield, and I think the occasional one - perhaps on a summer Saturday, ran through as a stopper via Stoke, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and Northampton to Euston. And I think it is just possible that one of...

Or reopening the CLC Wigan line from Glazebrook West Junction to a point near where it crossed over the Chat Moss line (near Kenyon Junction), with a connection onto the latter near there. John Prytherch.

What does ASDO stand for please?

Harlech Golf Club is beside the Cambrian Coast line and, I recall, has its own crossing for access. My father was a great golfer and as I child I caddied for him there. I was more interested in the railway and have fond memories of 2236 passing with a long up freight, where one of the tees or...

While some of the gaps discussed in this thread are, I think, length gaps (most notably at Gourock because of the curve), my concern is with height gaps. The down platform at Warrington Central has a serious height gap. I have for some time exercised great care in alighting; but a fortnight...

I think in about 1973-75 there was a regular diagram involving a Class 37 hauling a three car DMU (Swindon built Cross Country I think) from Cardiff or Newport to Gloucester and return. It was in Gloucester Central in the early evening. Unfortunately I never managed to travel on it. John...

An AM4 did get to Carlisle at least once. It happened when for some reason the loco-hauled early morning Crewe - Carlisle wasn't available - I think due to bad weather. Sorry I cannot remember when this was but definitely remember reading about it. I expect there was lots of slipping climbing...

Just very recently (in the last two weeks or so) I have noticed that passenger information screens and on station announcements have begun to include specific information on the location of approaching trains, which was not given before. For example, at Manchester Piccadilly P14 the indicators...