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London Region, East and Central. Wednesday 28th December 2016. The second full day of my London visit, the railways were using a Saturday timetable, , but still applying peak restrictions in the morning period, plus the fact engineering services were taking place, made for a poor service for...

Spa Valley Railway and Uckfield line. Tuesday 27th December 2016. I was down at number one son`s for the week over the Christmas break, taking an early afternoon train after work from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston and then negotiating the tube to Kings Cross before connecting with a...

Ticket inspector says not barrier staff tell me it is? Who's right

I will be travelling down to my son`s to stay for the Christmas week, leaving Manchester Piccadilly by around 17.00 on Friday 23rd December, the route out is not important, but I`ll be returning on Saturday 31st December and want to come back via Sleaford from Peterborough. I`ve typed this...

Reading, Didcot and Oxford. Chasing HST`s. Reading, Didcot and Oxford. Chasing HST`s. Saturday 17th December 2016. The weekend had arrived again and this being the last one before Christmas, I wanted to finish the year off by duplicating my visit back to Reading, after the trip last month when...

Cumbrian Tractor Chasing. Manchester to Carlisle Round Robin, Saturday 10th December 2016. No quite as earlier a start as last weekend, I had a lie in and was not up until 04.00, I must be one of those insomniacs. I drove down to Crumpsall Metrolink station, too early for the first tram into...

London and the Chilterns. London and the Chilterns. Saturday 3rd December 2016. Another early start, love that time in the morning as long as I`m not going to work, up at 03.30 to catch the famed 05.11 Manchester Piccadilly to Bournemouth Cross Country Voyager, and down as far as Leamington...

Nikon 2137 AF Nikkor 50 mm F/1.8 D FX Full Frame Prime Lens has anyone used/using one of these?

Hi I`m looking for some information on the Albanian Railways, HSh (Hekurudha Shqiptare), my first visit to the country was in September when we crossed mainly by minibus from Podgorica, Montenegro, following the old railway line, the Podgorica–Shkodër railway to the capital of Tirana, where...