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A South Pennine Day Ranger is valid to both Manchester Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly as shown on the route map. Would this ticket therefore be valid to Manchester Oxford Road (or even Deansgate) as they also form part of the Manchester Stations group?

Moderator note: see also the following thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/opportunities-to-improve-service-provision-through-to-castleford.223295 Branchline News( https://www.branchline.uk/home.php ) Page 30 reports that; Firstly, this seems sensible on a number of levels; doubling...

Hi, I’m travelling between St Erth and St Ives. Trying to book a ticket online bring up the below ticket, but there is no explanation of what this is. All it says is route: surfboard. What is this and what does it offer that an off-peak day return doesn’t?

A re-dated tour from this year, that includes DB 67 haulage and 2x Network Rail 97's (must be fairly rare haulage?) taking a train down the Cambrian Coast. This line has been on my 'to do,' list for quite some time and especially since it was featured on a rail documentary earlier this year...

This tour should deliver a DB class 67, 66 and 60. This will be my first time behind a 60 as well as delivering some new route coverage for me, potentially 'some very rare track in the Tinsley Yard' area and apparently the first passenger train to visit the Rotherham Steel Terminal. Residing in...

Peak rail understandably suspended its service due to Covid. However, the website has not been updated to reflect a potential re-opening. Does anyone know when/if a re-opening is planned? Many other heritage railways are reopening now and I’ve been wanting to do this line and hopefully travel...

Recently, Dovetail Games released their Train Sim World 2 and their future DLC Roadmap. While the roadmap is a nice idea and it is good that they are communicating what is coming and roughly when, I did express some frustration that the upcoming routes were heavily focused on the South East of...

Obviously, the railtour season has been decimated this year, so I thought I would start planning next years tours now that the football fixtures have been announced. I happened upon this one (re-dated from this year I believe) which I thought was worth sharing on the basis that courtesy of DRS...

Anglo-Scottish Sleepers by David Meara (P41-42 2018) says: If this was the case in 1978, what has changed to make the current sleeper operations need so much subsidy? (Maybe I will find out as I continue reading, but I thought it worth putting to the forum).

https://a2arail.com/about-a2a/ I couldn't see a thread on this, but thought it was worthwhile starting one due to the ambitious nature of this project. This would be a freight line (although I'm sure in future it could be a stunning passenger line) connecting Alberta (resource rich) in Canada...

Well, kind of: http://railwayherald.com/uknews/blue-pullman-takes-to-the-rails-in-november https://www.statesmanrail.com/journey/the-midland-pullman An interesting venture!

Has anybody done one of these? How did you find it? Was it worth the money? Are there any railways that posters could recommend? Any further useful information? Prices seem to vary wildly from a couple of hundred pounds to four-figure sums, so I'm interested to hear feedback on these before...

I've just been watching the below youtube video and in it is an early pacer in a livery I've never seen before. What livery is it please? The relevant time to watch is 0:15s-0:20s;

Has anyone else being using the lockdown times to do more actual cooking? And what have you being making? I enjoy cooking anyway, as I find it very relaxing (particularly with the addition of a beer into the mix) and you have the added bonus of good food at the end of it, a lot of which I tend...

As this forum subsection is a bit quiet at the moment for obvious reasons, I thought it might be a good time for people to share what their all-time favourite trip was and tell us why. You can go into as much detail as you want and as far back in time as you want, if you already wrote a report...

One of my favourite RailUk whine's is that the direct service from Chapeltown (South Yorkshire), centre of the universe, to Leeds takes a detour to serve Castleford thus slowing down passengers for Leeds from intermediate stations. What other examples are there of services that don't take the...

I’m a line manager across 2 sites and have a fairly sizeable team. I’m finding that I’m spending an increasing amount of time having conversations with people about their mental well-being, probably 2/3 times a week now. That’s not the issue, I’m always happy to listen and to try give the best...

Just posting this here as it seems quite a special tour, so it may be of interest. It should involve 6 DRS loco's in one day including classes 68, 2x57 and 3x class 20's on the mainline in their twilight. It also takes in some fairly pleasant lines including Sheffield-York (I assume via...

Some interesting low level changes to Amtrak's dining arrangements have been made, possibly indicating the future direction of travel on Amtrak services. Thought this would be of interest as everyone loves a proper meal in a dining car ...but apparently not. Is this progress? I can see how it...

I’ve booked a spur of the moment trip to Ukraine in early January. It’s mainly a sight-seeing trip but I can spare one full day to devote to railways. However, all the major cities of Ukraine seem to be around 10 hours away by train so aren’t realistic day trips. Can anyone suggest a sensible...