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Lancashire Day Rover. Saturday 2nd April 2022. Probably not the best weekend to buy a Lancashire Day Rover, Lancashire was spit between the north and south by engineering works, I should have done my research, but as it turned out I managed a few cops, so not a bad day overall. I started my...

Manchester and Leeds. Saturday 26th March 2022. A bit of a chilled-out Saturday for a change, I didn’t bother setting the alarm, but just woke up naturally at around 05.30 and had a leisurely drive to my local Metrolink station and Crumpsall for a 06.30 tram into Manchester Victoria. Still...

Acton Bridge, Cheshire. Friday 25th March 2022. It was still glorious weather and I was on holiday, so ONEMANc had phoned the night before and we had arranged a drive into Cheshire to Acton Bridge the night before, so it was another trip into Cheshire, but with me doing the driving this time...

Ill look forward to it Tech.

A great website cheers Tech, must do Stockholm, should have been over there in 2020 but covid cancelled for me.

West Midland Day Rover. Saturday 19th March 2022. The weekend had arrived again, and what a fantastic day Saturday was with clear blue skies, the first one this year, I think. The alarm was set for 04.00am and a drive down to Manchester Piccadilly for the 05.11 Cross Country Voyager to...

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Steam Gala. Saturday 12th March 2022. Locomotives rostered, Collett 5700 class GWR Pannier tank 7714, LMS Class Royal Scot No.4610, LMS Class Royal Scot No.46100 London Midland & Scottish Railway 5XP ‘Jubilee’ Class 4-6-0 No.45596 ‘Bahamas Lancashire and...

Acton Bridge, Cheshire. Thursday 10th March 2022. Chasing freight at Acton Bridge can be quite rewarding, but really you need good weather because south of the station there are two excellent footbridges, but quite open to the elements, and you can also get quite close lineside shots from the...

Thanks very much Tech, yes Mumbles was an interesting one, beyond it the road ended at the pier, but a road continued overhead and around the bend, next time Im down that way Ill explore it. I was waiting for a class 175 back to Manchester and very surprised to find a two car Sprinter class 150...

Yes thank you, its quite a good ticket for £11 a day on a railcard, its the first time Ive use it, Ive done all line rovers in the past and Western Region rovers, and valley day tickets but not this one before.

Greater Manchester. Wednesday 9th March 2022. Ive started trainspotting again, back to underlining numbers in a book, I cleared BR in 1985, but some much has come and gone since then, that I decided to start jotting again. I had a few hours spare, so took the Metrolink into Manchester...

South Wales Rover, (Day 8). Saturday 5th March 2022. A four day in eight-day South Wales Rover, also using day valley rovers in between. I essentially wanted to spend some time on the TfW class 769`s, the WAG`s and the short rake HST`s. I was using the rover ticket for the first two and last...

South Wales Rover, (Day 7). Friday 4th March 2022. A four day in eight-day South Wales Rover, also using day valley rovers in between. I essentially wanted to spend some time on the TfW class 769`s, the WAG`s and the short rake HST`s. I was using the rover ticket for the first two and last two...

Yes its certainly a region worth checking out, its good that the alignments have been preserved by cycle routes and not having had houses built on them, but yes Pontypool towards Blaenavon would most certainly be a former railway line.

South Wales Rover, (Day 6). Thursday 3rd March 2022. A four day in eight-day South Wales Rover, also using day valley rovers in between. I essentially wanted to spend some time on the TfW class 769`s, the WAG`s and the short rake HST`s. I was using the rover ticket for the first two and last...

That sounds fantastic Tech, , had it not been so wet I would have walked the old trackbed out of Maesteg, the cycle track sounds good, I suspect its part of the head of the valley lines, Ive always wanted to follow the alignment from Abergavenny to Merthyr and on to Neath and Swansea, an...

South Wales Rover, (Day 5). Wednesday 2nd March 2022 A four day in eight-day South Wales Rover, also using day valley rovers in between. I essentially wanted to spend some time on the TfW class 769`s, the WAG`s and the short rake HST`s. I was using the rover ticket for the first two and last...

Thanks for your comments Tech, always appreciated, but yes such a shame about Maesteg, you can still see a few signed of its more industrious past. Yes Ebbw Vale is definitely worth a visit, if only to look at the excellent dragon sculpture, I can`t see myself ticking off Wetherspoons any time...