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It's the Open Golf in a couple of weeks at Birkdale, Southport. Does anyone know where the coach park will be? The website says its 700m from the main entrance, which limits the options! And are the park and rides to the car parks operating from residential roads as they did last time? Thanks.

Am I right in thinking there were once three loco sheds in Hereford? A Great Western Shed to the south of Barton station - the one that continued into modern days as 85C. A shed located by Brecon Curve Junction - presumably originally Midland Railway for its Brecon line? A small shed on the...

I note that on RTT the local Crewe-Shrewsbury stoppers do not show unit number but rather ATxx - rather like the loco-hauled sets. Is there a source for what units are involved (e.g. AT03 = 153xxx + 153yyy) Thanks

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/best-place-to-buy-tickets.287296/ Personally I like to buy a physical ticket from a booking office. The only drawback is if there's a queue.

The G16s were a small class (4) of large tank locomotives (4-8-0 wheel arrangement, 95 tons in weight) specifically built for use at Feltham Yard. My question is whether, or rather to what degree, they were used on other duties? I have seen a photo of one on freight duties at Acton (WR)...

Did Aberdeen - Inverness trains have through loco workings in the 1950s or did they change locos, perhaps at Keith - the old HR/GNoS boundary?

Reading through a 1963 "Classification and marshalling of freight trains" document (as one does) I found an abbreviation I've never come across before - "EUB" Trains. There were six of them, running as Class 6 to Annesley but Class 8 forward. There was a further train Woodford to...

Curious arrangements this evening - 3 successive intermodals used the Down Fast between Stafford and Crewe, while passenger trains overtook them, using the Down Slow. Any suggestions why this would happen?

Friends from Canada coming over in a few weeks. The only rail travel they're planning is London - Wolves Monday 29 April (need to be there by lunchtime), returning Wednesday 1 May - any time. Looking at options there are advance singles at £50 available, flexible off-peak at £100, and open at...

British Railways shedcodes (1955): 71A Eastleigh, 71B Bournemouth, 71C Dorchester, 71G Bath, 71H Templecombe, 71I Southampton Docks, 71J Highbridge. So were 71D to 71F ever used, and if so where? And if not, why not? And why was I used as a suffix in 71 (and also 65) but skipped in 6, 51, 84...

In the summer of 1906 EH Bostock imported some unusual animals (Thylacine and Tasmanian Devil - so no bigger than a big dog) for his Scottish Zoo in Glasgow. They arrived in Plymouth and - I assume - then went by train. Thoughts please on the following: Would they have travelled as "premium...

The 1202 Euston-Chester was cancelled today between Crewe and Chester "due to planned train being replaced with a slower train (MS)". Not sure if that actually means anything, particularly given that passengers were directed to the 1421 TfW booked service which wasn't replacing anything! So...

Okay, to explain - my interest is mainly in railway operating rather than engineering. And I'm intrigued by what locos were used for, rather than what they looked like, who designed them or what colour they were painted. And my particular interest is in the 1950s. The use of some classes is...

Happened to see what I think was the Mansfield FC team coach (the vehicle, not the guy who advises them on tactics!). Does anyone know the operator or the identity of the vehicle?

Freightliner's 86622 left Crewe on a lowloader a couple of hours ago, presumably for scrapping?

Posters on here were very helpful regarding freight on the Looe branch, so . . . In the steam era (specifically the 1950s) was there a freight service to St Ives? And, if so, how did it work given the fairly intensive passenger service and the lack of passing places? TIA

A friend of mine heard this on a train today on the pa and assumed I'd know what it means. I don't! I think it was on an Avanti service.

We are all familiar with steam locos topping up their water supply en route either by chucking a water column outlet into the tank or tender at a station stop or by use of water troughs. Has en route coaling ever been used in the UK or elsewhere? I know there have been cases of locos having...

What freight has used the Looe line (including Moorswater/ Cheesewring) over the years? Given the difficulties of working the Liskeard - Coombe Jn section there were presumably strict limits on loadings, speed, brake power etc. And were there freight services to Looe itself? I have seen...

I have a pretty good idea of the sort of work covered by most depots over the years, but some are a bit of a mystery. One such is Langwith Junction, which had a substantial allocation of freight locos. I assume its work was largely coal within a Sheffield - Chesterfield - Nottingham - Worksop...