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Is a Macclesfield to Kendal ticket valid via Kidsgrove, Crewe & WCML? A friend tried it and got an earful. I can understand EMT and LM not being keen between Kidsgrove and Crewe since I suspect they get nowt from such tickets! :D

Saw 221136 yesterday and sure it was only 4 coaches! Is it short-formed, and if so how and why, or do I just need an eye test? :D

Seen on the A500 Penrhyn Quarry loco Marchlyn and a second loco on a lowloader. Anybody know: a) what was the 2nd loco? b) where were they going? TIA

Arrived c.1412 from the North ! apparently empty. From Longsight? Anybody know what was going on? Trains from Euston seemed to be running 20-30 late; had the 1243 Euston - Glasgow been turned round in the West Midlands or something? Very odd. (Curious day - there was a Voyager in...

Was on the 1735 Chester - Euston today. Around 1733 came an announcement to the effect we would be 5 minutes late leaving awaiting a "late running Arriva Trains Wales service". Holyhead - Birmingham came in on 3b (we were in 1) - half a dozen passengers quickly crossed the platform, off we...

Visited the (expensively) refurbished Llandudno station this week. What a let-down! All they've done is enclose the entrance area with glass walls, provide a new car park and ... er ... that seems to be it! And the enclosed part is only open when the station's staffed - 6 or 7 hours per...

Caught the 1730 Holyhead - Shrewsbury today and was surprised to discover it runs non-stop from Llandudno Junction to Chester! Followed by an 1839 from the Junction to Chester which makes the usual calls. Two questions: 1. Why non-stop over this section? 2. What forms the 1839? Can't...

I've never claimed Delay Repay in the past for 3 good reasons: 1. Rarely delayed 2. Longer journeys are usually on Free Passes (!) 3. Shorter journeys are on PT & it seems churlish. However, having suffered 2 recent delays - Virgin following trackside fire at Crewe and LM following ...

Once upon a time Crewe had a Travel Centre (TC) and a Booking Office (BO). The Travel Centre was for general enquiries, bookings in advance, reservations for a week next Thursday etc etc The Booking Office was for buying tickets, usually for immediate travel. Following the remodelling...

I've found a weird fare on the National Rail website and just wondering if it's valid? Won't name the places involved (don't want them shutting a loophole!) but will use different placenames to establish the principle. Let's say I want to travel from Bath to Chippenham. Cheapest fare is...

On another thread somebody has claimed that as PM Thatcher introduced a rule that municipalities were not allowed to operate buses over 10years old, but that this rule did not apply to privately-owned companies. This seems bizarre! Can anyone confirm whether this was or wasn't the case?

Anybody have any details of the Crewe - Bangor specials being run (by Virgin?) later this week for Festival No.6 at Portmeirion?

A local Crewe charity needs to send 2 people on a training course in Totnes. Out Monday morning, back Wednesday evening. NRE fare quoted is £109.70? Any suggestions for inventive ways of cutting costs?

Right. I was in Crewe and needed to go to a meeting in Cheadle Hulme. Day Return to Cheadle Hulme. Simple. Well, journey planner gave a fastest journey via Stockport (at that particular time), so presumably my Cheadle Hulme ticket would be valid via Stockport. Correct? But since I might...

Over recent weeks I've noticed an Arriva-liveried partial open-topper parked in Shrewsbury (Coton Hill area). Anybody know what it is, or whose premises? (There's a couple of coaches and a single-decker bus on the same site)

This may prove controversial, but ...... I'd be interested in comments on the relative quality of the different single deckers currently on the market. I realise there's a basic distinction between the heavyweights and the lightweights, but how do they compare in terms of comfort...

I sometimes see a rake of cargowagons being loaded/unloaded in the sidings between Widnes and Ditton, but can never quite see what the traffic is! Can anybody tell me what's being shifted to/from where? They look like coils. Steel? Paper? Inbound/ outbound? tia

Is said ticket valid on 1843 ex Euston?

Some friends had advance tickets this afternoon 1649 Crewe - Chester and 1724 Chester - Bangor. In view of WCML disruption I was concerned that the 1649 would be late (or even caped) and suggested going for the 1623 {In the event the 1649 was fine} My question is: If we had got to the...

Noted today that 150282, at one end at least, has acquired a "shedplate" for 6G (Llandudno Junction). I am, of course, delighted to be honoured in this way, but it seems a bit harsh on 86A who still do the heavy work on it! :D