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Just been having an interesting talk with a friend about trains in the 1970s when Selby was part of the ECML route. Try as I might I cannot find any online timetables giving details of journey times & frequency of service between Selby & York & Selby to Doncaster from those days. Can anyone help...

Just been looking at at these telegraphic codes that the railways used to use & some forum members too it would seem. When did these stop being used in day to day messages? - the listings on the website are from a 1980s BR publication. Looking at the full listing available at railwaycodes.org.uk...

My grandson has just been telling me about a full blown argument between a passenger & the guard on his train yesterday. The passenger was travelling hours early on an advance ticket but refused to pay in a heated argument for a new ticket when the guard was checking tickets, the guard walked...

Call me part of the older "past it" generation here but what's with the Twitter obsession & complaints. I was out with my grandson last night on the train & he was tap tap tap on his phone throughout the journey updating all & sundry on his Twitter account as well as sending some tweet to VTEC...

I was talking to a retired BR buffet steward this week during an EC journey to York & one of the subjects was the original BR plans for an enhanced travel experience called InterCity Voyager on Cross Country services between Scotland & the South West introduced in the early 1990's. Being for...

What is the purpose of the buffer stops & physical seperation of the Northern trains & the Merseyrail system at Ormskirk station. I arrived on the Northern service from Preston but due to travelling with others to attend a funeral I didn't have the opportunity to converse with the guard about...

I've just been looking at some pics of St Enoch station, Glasgow on the railscot website. A few of them are of empty carriages being brought into the station but where exactly was the depot - I've been trying to follow the line out from the former station site on Google Earth but not the easiest...

I pity anyone trying to travel home tonight in Strathclyde. I'm visiting relatives in Fort Matilda next to Gourock & have struggled to get there from Paisley were the train terminated due flooding. This weather is truly horrendous.

I was travelling yesterday & overheard the 2 train staff seated at the next table talking about working 'spiv days' in the run up to xmas. From the conversation I gathered this was overtime they were talking about but it sounded so strange to hear all this slang in 2011 - is any other railway...

Just been watching those very old re-runs of Taggart on the Yesterday channel. They had this scene where a class 303 emu was arriving in the platform at Balloch with what appeared to be the guard hanging out waiting to open the passenger doors. I remember having a trip on one of these emu's to...