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To be honest I wouldn't be bothered about someone like that being removed ensures everyone else has a pleasant journey. Even your comments about his language suggests he wasn't behaving normally. Encounters with people like this can make trips uncomforable. A couple of years ago I was on an...

I can understand that when it comes to historic houses but one would assume the paint jobs on rolling stock would be more robust. Strange that neither Steam nor the new museum at Abreystwyth find the need to limit lighting. 1774037806 Putting in a few more window panels in the roof would not...

I went a couple of times for just before Station Hall closed - my first visits since the early 1990s. I was disappointed back then just how gloomy and dark it was. When the roof replacement was announced I thought that the opportunity would be taken to allow more natural light to enter sorry...

There was an interesting court case which resulted in gaol time and the demise of the long standing operator Express Motors (established 1909) of Wales eight years ago which involved scanning senior bus passes the story can be read on this link...

I remember that well. I had first seen that film in the 1960s or 70s when I was a youngster and always wanted to see it again. However as it was a day time viewing I was out of work I duely set the video recorder and was somewhat miffed to find it had been substituted on both occasions. I must...

Thanks for confirming the station - I still think some, perhaps stock footage of Devonport was used, as one view which includes a locomotive looks like the part of Devonport Dockyard adjacent to Keyham Road. Google Earth shows track inside the yard wall at the same location today.

Falmouth Docks which was the original Falmouth Station was closed in 1970 when the Town Station opened. However, the section was reopened five years later. I imagine it also picks up cruise passengers wanting to do their own things rather than pay for over priced coach excursions. I did a cruise...

Stumbled across a classic war film on Saturday which I found on Youtube. "The Key" Starring William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard and Charles Grey made in 1958. It's about RN Salvage Tugs during the Battle of the Atlantic. Holden is a former US tug skipper who is serving in the...

On a similar theme there is Tycoon (1947) starring John Wayne as a railroad engineer Johnny Munroe. Film includes a spectacular (or it was when I first saw it as a young child) bridge collapse.

Watching the first episode of ITV secret service series "Betrayal" last night with Shaun Evans and Zahara Ahmadi. Evans travels to "Stockport" to meet a contact but the station appears to be Liverpool Edge Hill with it's distinctive sandstone approach ramps. Quite a bit of this series seems to...

Interesting section of interlaced track there as well :)

I sometimes wonder if the usage of certain words is projected through the media adn become "buzz words" As a youngster in the late 60s early 70s a "buzz word" that seemed to become popular was 'ubiquitous'. By the 1980s at the start of my teaching career the word "strategy" came to the fore...

Mentioning Liam Cunningham - he plays a train driver in the film Wind that Shakes the Barley set in County Cork during the War of Independence and Irish Civil War. Railway scenes at Killarney Station. https://railwaymoviedatabase.com/the-wind-that-shakes-the-barley/ Remaining in Ireland RPSI...

Perhaps the more interesting "What if" might have been if the Welsh Highland Railway had actually been built as originally proposed as the Porthmadog, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway which would have used electric locos powered with Hydro Electric power on a slighly different alignment bits...

I recall sharing a compartment with an American couple when I had an All Lines Rover back in 1979 and as we approached Edinburgh Waverley they said to me are we approaching the "Train Depot" not "Train Station". So has american terminology chaged from Depot to Station? I must admit "Train...

Recently watched the 1944 WWII war film "The Way Ahead" William Hartnell and David Niven star. A station appears claiming to be Crewe three times during the movie. The PA announcements are correct for departures from Crewe with addition of the fictitious name where the barracks are located.

Part of the problem is that parents don't teach right from wrong. Not only was I taught theft was wrong but taking a ride on public transport without paying was as bad as shop lifting - my parents owned a shop and were quite forthright on shoplifters. Even today I won't take anything for...

I actually got the date wrong - just checked 6 Bells Junction and it was 20th April not 6th. Was your trip actually on the Powisman which ran the same day as the Red Dragon using the same locos but going the other way around Central Wales? Red Dragon didn't go to Birminingham but Powisman did...

Supre photo I wonder if it goes wandering on the trains? Some cats have been known to commute.

Time Bomb / Terror on A Train 1953 Glenn Ford / Maurice Denham / Victor Madden saboteur attempts to blow up a train of naval mines. One of the films I recall as a youngster on TV and not seen it for years until I found it on YouTube a couple of years ago.