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Wow. It's even more complicated than I thought! Have to admit to a bit of "previous" here, which is one of the reasons I'm asking. Eldest (a bit train mad) and I went to London a few years back. I used a debit card, eldest bought an Oyster at Paddington with 16-25 on it (or whatever the...

Thanks for the replies. Couple of clarifications: - if you think I'm giving one of my cards to my children... think again. Quite possibly against the Ts&Cs of both travel and the card as well! - it would be a stay of probably at least two or three days, overnighting as close as affordable -...

Eldest has had cause recently to travel almost daily between Caerphilly and the Bay. He says the 769 0s seem underpowered and labour going uphill whereas the 769 4 that he was on was much more relaxed. Presumably there's a difference in the power pack or something? M.

We're considering visiting London some time in the next six months. Family of six with children of 20, 17, 15 and 13. The older children have contactless debit cards but the younger ones don't (yet). I'm assuming four of us use debit cards and I just get the younger ones an Oyster each, but is...

Just for completeness, I went back today with a better camera. I can confirm that the one on the left, with the icon of a bicycle, is 44015. The one on the right, couldn't see a number, but it has an inordinate amount of gaffa tape applied, there are some curious white marks in the black section...

I know it's a very long time since the last post, but I happened to drive past Swansea Bay Studios this morning and there were definitely two ex-FGW HST coaches "on the lot". Could have been another one hidden behind the building. I did stop to take a couple of pictures, but my phone camera is...

Little known fact, but the words of Hen Wlad fy Nhadau can be sung to the Russian tune, so presumably (I have no idea) the Russian words would fit the Welsh tune... Oh, and the Cornish and Bretons have nicked the tune and the spirit of the words for their own anthems. Personal preference is...

Fair enough. I get worked up enough about the ways people mangle my own language - Welsh - and the placenames around here. As far as I'm concerned, it's "Iwerddon" 8-) M.

Quite a lot seems to have changed in Northern Ireland (supply chain disruptions particularly), and very quickly after the final-final-we're-really-really-out-now date earlier this year. Anecdotally, I drive a section of the M4 quite a lot and it has been noticeable how the number of EU-plated...

Not necessarily - it's evenings and weekends when everyone else is using the system too, so it *might* be simply that you are suffering from contention - the internet equivalent of a party line. I don't know how Virgin works on that front, but I do know that what is now Virgin started out as...

Eldest, who is a bit of a train buff, had his first journey on a 769 the other week (Caerphilly - Central and return) and said pretty much exactly the same. Going downhill was fine, it was the return journey that seemed to be a struggle. If they are having to push these vehicles hard just to get...

With Fibre to the Cabinet your existing exchange line isn't changed at all - you have copper back to the cabinet and from there back to the exchange. This means that if there's a power cut your landline phone continues to work using the exchange batteries / generator just as it has always done...

Late to the party (and I haven't finished reading the thread yet), but curious why you think your current 100Mbps connection will be inadequate with a child starting secondary. We managed through home schooling last year with three children online (one MS Teams, two Google Classroom, all...

Just wondered if it might stop them using the same location next time - whenever that might be! It was on a little-used quarry line, west and north of Newport, 006 facing the main line. See if you can work it out from that :-) M.

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We saw it at its stabling this morning and watched it leave. My eldest was very excited. Does anyone know for sure if the royals slept aboard? If they didn't then presumably they must have gone by car from the hotel to Cardiff because the train didn't appear to pay a visit to Newport station.

They may not be original, I work at a museum and when we had a railway-themed temporary exhibition a few years ago we obtained reproduction benches (new castings) from somewhere. Not sure if this is the company, but it might well be: GWR Benches. They proved so popular that we've kept them for...

Would that be at Landore? I can't say I know the area well, but road access to Landore seems very tight to me. I've been working in Swansea for 12 years, travelling in via Fabian Way and the M4 from the East and I've never previously seen any rolling stock on the back of a lorry (plenty of...

I saw 43321 on the back of a low loader heading into Swansea on Fabian way at approximately this location around about 5pm today. Seems an odd way to get to anywhere. Does anyone know what was going on?

Irregular lurker but I've registered so that I can state that the above is categorically not true. BS1363 is designed to be able to deliver a continuous 13A at a socket and is actually somewhat over-engineered for this purpose. Obviously there are limits on the total current that a single...