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C.F Booth Rotherham, who own a large scrap business including in trains, goes into administration.
The location is bounded by three railway and tram train lines and has its own siding.
The firm also owns the Millmoor football ground, the former home of Rotherham football club.
Rotherham...
I am going from Sheffield to Gatwick Airport on Sunday 7th September .
Thameslink is closed between St Pancras and Blackfriars/London Bridge.
I have a ticket to St Pancras.
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What is the best way for an OAP with case to complete my journey to Gatwick?
Would he be allowed on Gatwick Express to...
Last Saturday we OAPs returned from Leighton Buzzard to Sheffield on an Advance via Milton Keynes and Tamworth.
Between from Milton Keynes to Nuneton I had the company of a new far - right party members.
Between Tamworth and Sheffield I had the company of Bristol City fans going to watch...
Does my local bus company benefit more from the revenue from a ENCTS senior ticket or by my purchase of a Derbyshire Wayfarer ticket(£7.00 for 60+ folk), the rail bit I use later anyway? The whole bus route is more than 20 miles.
The new Cal Mac ferry is going to arrive at its home port of Craignure on Mull.
Loch Frisa (ex Utne) is arriving shortlyafter being at Rosyth for adaptations via Montrose, Scrabster and Kyle of Lochalsh.
Coruisk, which it will be replacing, will be arriving at about the same time - a one off...
Using my Derbyshire Wayfarer recently I travelled on the X57 bus to Glossop.
I decided to catch the train to New Mills Central from where I could return to Sheffield.
I needed to buy a ticket.
The TVM eventually gave me a ticket for £6 00 with senior railcard.
I went in and out of the barrier at...
Announcement:
"Platform 2c for the late running 08.38 EMR from Liverpool to Norwich."Class 158.
Platform staff:
"Passenger will find platform 2c if they walk along 2b, then 2a.""
Announcement:
"Passenger for Norwich, use the front two coaches, as the rear two coaches will be detached at...
I have a return portion of a London Terminals to Sheffield Super Off Peak code CJ and "via Chesterfield".
The engineering work at Bedford means a 4 and half journey on MML.
Can I use the ticket on Xcountry and LNWR via Tamworth?
Can I book a ticket for a train journey from Paris to Sheffield in late September?
Or I can't and I buy an Advance from St Pancras to Sheffield, will it be valid on a later train if the Eurostar is delayed?
My journey is a weekly day return from Bamford (at 10.40am)to Hazel Grove.
The normal route given in journey planners is to change stations at New Mills.
I use a Derbyshire Wayfarer ticket to travel from Bamford to New Mills Central.
I continue from New Mills Newtown to Hazel Grove.
I return at...
There are no trains between Stockport and Sheffield today.
I can find no indication as to the route for the Rail Replacement Service.
Last time the journey by bus was from Stockport to Manchester then Woodhead, M1 and Parkway(A 57). Twice the distance and two and a half hours!
Today there are...
If Totley or Cowburn tunnels or one of the landslides in Edale was to close the line between Sheffield and Stockport for a lengthy period, are their any contingency plans?
None of the road connections can take the traffic
My last bustitute from Manchester involved a lengthy journey from...
The Swiss Transfer Ticket cannot be booked next year and the last return journey will be in June.
You can purchase your transfer ticket by the 30th December 2018 for future travel up to 30th of June 2019 (last return date).
Is the Stoke Piccadilly trains' not stopping at Stockport on Saturday afternoons a permanent feature?
I regularly travel from Poynton to Sheffield at this time, changing at Stockport to stand all the way to Sheffield.
Are their any alternatives other than walking to Middlewood?
Can I go via...
Today at about 4pm I was ignored ...OK nothing new ... I was not asked to do a satisfaction survey of my train journey.
Those sat down(in seats) were asked if they wanted to complete the survey, those of us stood up or sat in the corridors, vestibules, bike space, luggage racks(honest) were not...
While waiting for the Kings Cross train from Low Moor I saw large notices entitled "Station Evacuation Plan" assuming every station would have one I passed by. A little later I read the instructions on display and realised that it related to a nearby chemical plant.
Are their other stations...
Connections are advertised on the route between Sheffield and North Wales at Warrington on the Northern site.
On another planner a 14 minute walk across a town centre is indicated between Central and Bank Quay.
At what point is walking time/distance/difficulty considered too much?
I want to get from Sheffield to Macclesfield as early as possible on a Saturday in the near future.
Officially I can get there for 07:20.
There is a service to Manchester Airport from Sheffield at 03:25 via Huddersfield and Manchester Piccadilly. There is a connection at Piccadilly for...
When trying to book from A to B via C in the UK the engine would not do it.
However if I pressed "slower routes" it offered a purchasable ticket from A to B via D,E,F,G,F,E and C. i.e. it doubled back after going a hundred miles out to G and added 12 hours to the journey all for about £60...
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